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St James Senior Girls' School , London |
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Thursday 16 Nov 2023 |
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4:15 PM - 5:30 PM |
The Minerva Society presents "How can a footprint define the difference between the past and the future?"
Speaker Lucy Mason (2016)
Currently completing a PhD research at King’s College London after a degree in Physics and Philosophy, my interest in this subject started when I was a student at St James and did an EPQ looking at some very similar questions.
The peculiar nature of quantum mechanics, makes it seem as if the past is no more fixed than the future is. So why do we experience it as if it is? Early research questioned whether consciousness had some mysterious role in this but more recently we have discovered that the way that the universe itself constantly measures and records certain things creates the familiar idea of time as we know it. But questions remain about the many things that are not recorded and if they are any different from the uncertain future.
On Thursday 16th November 2023
Refreshments at 4:15 for a 4:30 start
In Second Floor Library, Earsby Street, W14 8SH