What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Join James Beacham, a particle physicist at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, as he explores what happens when the fabric of reality – physical or societal – is distorted beyond recognition.

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James Beacham seeks answers to physics' biggest open questions using the largest experiment ever, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. He hunts dark matter, gravitons, quantum black holes and dark photons as a member of the ATLAS collaboration, one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson in 2012.

In addition to his research, he is a frequent speaker on science, innovation, the future of technology, and art at events and venues around the world, including at the American Museum of Natural History, the Royal Institution, SXSW and the BBC. as well as private events for businesses and corporations including KPMG, Bain, Dept Agency and many more.

This lecture was recorded at the Royal Institution on October 28, 2021.

1:11 What causes gravity?
4:19 What is space?
7:55 The flow and mobility of space behind black holes
14:33 How do we know black holes actually exist?
19:58 How to make a black hole
26:08 Could we live in a giant black hole?
31:26 The idea of the universe in a black hole
36:44 Why the Large Hadron Collider could only create a miniature black hole
45:04 Building a Big Bang machine in space
47:25 Journey into a black hole
52:41 Our societal black hole

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