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Paul Charles William Davies, AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is affiliated with the Institute for Quantum Studies at Chapman University in California. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University College London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. He has proposed that a one-way trip to Mars could be a viable option.
In 2005, he took up the chair of the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.
Davies was brought up in Finchley, London. He attended Woodhouse Grammar School and then studied physics at University College London, gaining a first class Bachelor of Science degree in 1967.
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Genres: Documentary,Paul Davies on origins of life at For Thought: Origins How did life begin, and what sort of process can turn a complex mixture of chemicals into a genuinely living organism? The origin of life remains one of the great mysteries of science. We may never have a full account of life's murky beginnings, but a lot hinges on the answer. If life emerges readily in Earth-like conditions, then it may have started many times on Earth* – but if life is a bizarre statistical fluke, we may be alone in the universe after all. http://sydneyoperahouse.com/ideas Subscribe and find more videos from Ideas at the House: http://www.youtube.com/ideasatthehouse Get a new talk every week on our podcast: Audio - https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/sydney-opera-house-ideas-at/id640445035 Video - https://itunes...
For Thought is an opportunity for the world’s leading thinkers to immerse themselves and audiences in the particulars of a topic; discussing the latest cutting-edge research, the newest theories, or the history of how something came to be. Some of science’s most fascinating, essential questions revolve around the origins of the universe and how – and why – life began. Join Lawrence Krauss, Paul Davies and Rachel Webster for an extensive discussion of these ideas, as they unpack the most credible theories and dissect their implications. What does the future of our search to understand the origins of life and the universe hold? What does an understanding of origins mean for cosmology more broadly, and what are the most important questions that we still need to answer? http://sydneyoperaho...
To consider God seriously, where to start? To try to see the big picture of God, what are the questions? What are the categories? What would be the prime attributes or traits of a Supreme Being, the supposed Creator of the universe? Click here to watch more interviews with Paul Davies http://bit.ly/1GhA60e Click here to watch more interviews on the attributes of God http://bit.ly/1RPJdMT Click here to buy episodes or complete seasons of Closer To Truth http://bit.ly/1LUPlQS For all of our video interviews please visit us at www.closertotruth.com
How can so many numbers of nature—the constants and relationships of physics—be so spot-on perfect for humans to exist? Coincidence and luck seem wildly unlikely. For more videos on "Why a Fine-Tuned Universe?" click here http://bit.ly/1Ds2Zrz For more on information and video interviews with Paul Davies click here http://bit.ly/1GhA60e
UNSW Physics presents "Public Talks" with Paul Davies and his presentation entitled "Dark Forces of the Cosmos" - Friday, 12 December 2014 Summary: Astronomers have estimated that stars, gas and dust make up only 4 per cent of the mass of the universe. As for the rest, it remains a mystery. Measurements suggest that 25 per cent is in the form of some sort of dark or invisible matter, not made of atoms or familiar subatomic particles, but something else entirely. The lion's share of the mass of the universe, however, is even weirder. Dubbed "dark energy", it seems to be a form of energy intrinsic to empty space itself with the bizarre property that it antigravitates. Because dark energy dominates all other forms, it is causing the expansion of the universe to speed up, propelling the entir...
Professor Paul Davies gives this public lecture entitled: The eerie silence: Are we alone in the Universe? on Friday, 18 May 2012 at The Australian National University. Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and best-selling author. He is Regents' Professor at Arizona State University, where he directs the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science -- a cosmic think tank that tackles the "big questions" of existence, from the origin of the universe to the origin of life and the nature of time. Davies also directs a National Cancer Institute research program that tackles cancer from a physics perspective. Among his research accomplishments, Davies helped explain how black holes radiate energy, what caused the ripples in the cosmic afterglow of the ...
If all that exists—everything imaginable, physical and nonphysical—is 'something'. Why is there 'something' rather than 'nothing'? Wouldn't 'nothing' be simpler than any sort of 'something'? It's a haunting wonderment. It's the biggest possible question. Why is there anything at all? There must be an answer. But who can know it? From the PBS series 'Closer to Truth', presented by Robert Lawrence Kuhn. Click here to buy episodes/seasons of Closer To Truth and show your support: http://bit.ly/cttmaximus
A conversation with Prof. Paul Davies about life, universe and everything! UNSW Physics Outreach Manager, Shane Hengst, interviews Prof. Paul Davies on Tuesday, 29 July 2014. On this evening, Paul gave a public talk for UNSW Science entitled "Six Big Questions at the frontiers of science". Prof. Paul Davies is the director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science: http://beyond.asu.edu/ Prof. Paul Davies homepage: http://cosmos.asu.edu/ UNSW Science Newsroom "Paul Davies on Six Big Questions at the frontiers of science": http://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science/paul-davies-six-big-questions-frontiers-science UNSW Physics: http://www.physics.unsw.edu.au Credits: Speaker: Prof. Paul Davies Interviewer: Shane Hengst Director, Camera & Editor: Don Kountouris Special Thanks:...
Date: April 17, 2010 Location: Unbelievable? Premier Christian Radio Christian debater: John C. Lennox Deist debater: Paul C.W. Davies For John Lennox: http://johnlennox.org/
Hear leading cosmologist and author Paul Davies describe new insights that come from looking at cancer cells as physical objects - including a radically new approach to therapy. This New Scientist Live event took place at Conway Hall, London, on 5 June 2013. Paul Davies directs the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University. To find out more about this and other New Scientist events, visit https://www.facebook.com/newscientist/events.
Paul Davies on consciousness, quantum mechanics, and the observer effect, and its implications on retrocausality and the Omega Point. Courtesy of Closer to Truth: http://www.closertotruth.com/series/consciousness-fundamental#video-2085
Whether alien intelligences exist has profound implications for religion. We are either alone or not alone in the universe, but no matter the ultimate answer, theists and atheists will each mold that answer to fit their opposing world views. For more on information and video interviews with Paul Davies click here http://bit.ly/1GhA60e For more videos on whether intelligent aliens would undermine God click here http://bit.ly/1HjS00O For more Closer to Truth interview videos, please visit http://www.closertotruth.com
The Australian artist shares his story behind the graphic nature of his architectural masterpieces Venue: Cat Street Gallery, 222 Hollywood Road, Sheung Wan Date: May 16 to June 9, 2013 Time: Mon-Fri, 11am-7pm; Sat-Sun, 11am-5pm
Paul Davies interviewed by Hal Walker for http://www.harmonica.com. See more interviews like this at http://harmonica.com/hal. In this video, Paul Davies uses tongue blocking to take "Mary Had a Little Lamb" to a whole 'nother dimension. This is one of those simple lessons that opens up a lifetime of musical potential.
Workshop "Quantum Biology: Current Status and Opportunities" 17 - 18 September 2012, University of Surrey, UK Evidence has recently emerged that plants use a form of quantum computing to calculate how best to direct energy through their photosynthetic apparatus. Scientists have also discovered that birds, insects and other animals appear to use entanglement (what Einstein called "spooky action at a distance" to detect the earth's magnetic field). And there is solid evidence that enzymes, those metabolic workhorses that drive much of the action in our cells, use the process known as quantum tunnelling to accelerate chemical reactions. The workshop sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Surrey, BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) an...
https://www.facebook.com/Ray-Davies-125755857457153/ http://www.raydavies.info/www/main.php?content=news Ray Davies interviewed by Bill Turnbull and Louis Minchin.
666 ABC Canberra Mornings host Genevieve Jacobs talks with Professor Brian Schmidt, Dr Alan Duffy, Professor Naomi McClure-Griffiths, Professor Matthew Bailes and Professor Paul Davies about the $135 million search for extraterrestrial intelligent life. For more information and speaker biographies go here: http://scienceandtechnologyaustralia.org.au/focus-on/are-we-alone-the-100m-question/
I Filmz TV';s sidste ekstraudsendelse om årets CPH:DOX-filmfestival taler vi med den velrenommerede lyddesigner Paul Davies, som bl.a. har arbejdet på spillefilm som "The American", "The Proposition" og "Lockout". Davies var i København for at deltage i et lydseminar, og eftersom Davies både har arbejdet på adskillige fiktionsfilm og dokumentarer (deriblandt "The Imposter", som for nylig fik dansk biografpremiere), var det oplagt at tale med den BAFTA-nominerede lyddesigner om forskellen på at lave lyd til dokumentarer og blockbustere - og forskellen viser sig faktisk ikke at være særlig stor. Vi fik bl.a. også talt om Davies mangeårige samarbejde med instruktøren Lynne Ramsay ("Hvad med Kevin?") og hans indsats på den western-inspirerede "The American".
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ICE Launching Conference THE SCIENCES, THE HUMANITIES, THE FUTURE Friday, September 30 – Saturday, October 1, 2016 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Saturday, October 1, 2016 Paul Davies “Are We Alone?” ICE’s launching conference will bring to the Dartmouth campus leading scientists, humanists, and public intellectuals working on fundamental questions at the forefront of cross-disciplinary research. Presentations will include topics such as the nature of free will, the multiverse, the search for meaning through the arts and the sciences, the possibility of alien life, and the future relationship between the sciences and the humanities.
Vad är tid? En föreläsning med Paul Davies på Sigtunastiftelsen den 18 september 2017
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SETI Talks Archive: http://seti.org/talks Time travel makes great science fiction, but can it really be done? Travel into the future is already a reality, but visiting the past is a much tougher proposition, and may require fantastic resources such as a wormhole in space. Nevertheless, if going back in time is allowed, even in principle, then what about all those paradoxes that make time travel stories so intriguing? Paul Davies is a physicist, cosmologist and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where is Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He is the author of many books, including "How to Build a Time Machine" and, most recently, "The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?"
Paul Davies, author of the popular best-seller "How to Build a Time Machine" discussed time travel when he presented the annual Sci-fi Meets Sci-Fact lecture on Jan. 31, 2012, at Arizona State University. Time travel is a favorite science fiction theme, but can it really be done? "Well, maybe," says Davies, the internationally acclaimed cosmologist, astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, where he is a Regents' Professor in the Department of Physics. The London native also directs the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science, a cosmic think tank he established at ASU in 2007. More about Paul Davies and his research at beyond.asu.edu.
http://fqxi.org Paul Davies at the FQXi SETTING TIME ARIGHT conference, an interdisciplinary meeting investigating the nature of time.
Traveling with the rodeo
It's the only life I'll ever know
I started in New Mexico
Must have been a thousand years ago
I used to be the best they say
At riding young wild horses for my pay
But now I'm much too old it seems
I only ride wild horses in my dreams
They used to tell me
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Ride em, cowboy
Don't let em throw you down
You can't make no money
If you hit the ground
They said, ride em cowboy
Don't let em throw you down
You're the toughest cowboy in town
I've always been a traveling cowboy
But now there's no place left to go
What am I supposed to do
Seems I'm left out in the cold
(CHORUS)
Old Midnight was a champion
He's the only bronc I couldn't ride
But now I hear old Midnight's blind
And rides the little children for a dime
Ladies used to hang around
I must have been a hero in their eyes
My silver spurs are rusty now
Lord, I wish I'd tried to settle down
They used to tell me
(CHORUS)
Traveling with the rodeo