Paul Olding

In Brief

Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboard player Prof Brian Cox (he got a promotion) wants to know What Time Is It? It’s a simple question and it sounds like it has a simple answer. But do we really know what it is that we’re asking? Brian visits the ancient pyramids at Chichen Itza in Cancun where the Maya built temples to time. He finds out that a day is never 24 hours because our planet spins erratically, and meets the keeper of time on our planet. He discovers that we not only travel through time at the speed of light, but to someone watching you, your time can speed up or slow down depending on where you are and what you’re doing. He journeys to the beginning of time (and beyond), and explores the very limit of time, a point where current physics just doesn’t have the answers.

Festivals

Goethe Institute Science Film Festival, Bangkok 2009

Press

The Sun – ‘They call me the Liam Gallagher of physics’

Radio Times – ‘Horizon at its best’

TV Scoop – ‘Stupendous Programme’

Digital Spy – ‘watchable, intelligent, entertaining’

Independent – ‘a cerebral treat’

Times – ‘better than Professor Brian Cox's last Horizon’

Spiked – ‘baffling’

Independent – ‘a cerebral treat’

Public (Blogs and Emails)

Fantastic programme

I enjoyed it immensely

Enjoyable, interesting, informative

I had my brain stimulated

dealt nicely with translating the deepest concepts into layman's terms

Cox is lucky to be quite a handsome guy

thought he did a pretty good job of explaining some pretty complicated concepts

it did its job well, namely of getting people who are not scientist interested in the subject

Horizon as it used to be. And as it should be

both engrossing and mind-expanding. Simply brilliant.

Cox is like Carl Sagan in his enthusiasm and ability to convey complex ideas

an incredible episode of Horizon

A whirlwind tour of everything from quantum time to general relativity in an hour.

Read Brian’s Article

YouTube

Featuring behind the scenes videos

(that you won’t see on tv)

Photo Album

Chichen Itza, Cancun		Iguana

Filming Aerials in Boston	MIT Haystack, Boston	DoP Chris King

On the Road, Baltimore	Viewing the Hubble Deep Field	Contemplating Einstein Anza Borrego Desert, Calif

DoP Chris King	Catching his second fish	Researcher Tom Ranson

Soundman Jon Thomas	Me and my beard	Rock Star (yeah right)

Jibbing in the desert	Time ticks by	Night time on the beach in San Diego


	CONTRIBUTORS
Max Tegmark Cosmological Time	Irwin Shapiro ‘Shapiro Time Delay’	Arthur Neil Day length Time

Dennis McCarthy Director of Time, USNO	Steve Beckwith Hubble Deep Field	Saul Perlmutter Cosmological Time

Neil Turok M Theory	Fay Dowker Causal Set Theory

There once was a lady named Bright,
Who traveled faster than light.
She set out one day,
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.

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