James Beacham

Particle physicist & science storyteller
Physicist Dr. James Beacham wears a jacket and black glasses.
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Sophie Bennett

Dr. James Beacham is a particle physicist at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, where he hunts for 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 at popular sci/tech/art events around the world (with a large following on TikTok), and regularly appears on radio shows, podcasts, and in TV series and documentaries. His talk, “How we explore unanswered questions in physics”, was featured on TED.com and has been viewed more than 1.6 million times. Beacham is also an experimental filmmaker and regularly collaborates with other artists.

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Decrypting the Universe: A Deep Dive with James Beacham

James Beacham

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What's outside the universe? What's inside a black hole? What is dark matter, really? We will ever be able to travel through time? Is our universe made of math? Why do people believe ridiculous things? Why do people think that everything in existence needs to be commodified? How will the universe end? Join Dr. James Beacham, ask-me-anything style.
Home Base
Meet Up
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The Other End of a Black Hole

James Beacham

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What would happen if you fell into a black hole? Would you be vaporized? Crushed into a point? Stretched into spaghetti? Or would you emerge at the other end to a new world – perhaps a new universe?
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