Do You Know What Time It Is?

Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox asks, '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 Mayan pyramids in Mexico where the Maya built temples to time. He finds out that a day is never 24 hours and meets Earth's very own Director of Time. He journeys to the beginning of time, and goes beyond within the realms of string theory, and explores the very limit of time. He discovers that we not only travel through time at the speed of light, but the experience we feel as the passing of time could be an illusion.
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Brian Cox, also known as B. E. Cox (born 3 March 1968, Oldham, Lancashire, England), is a particle physicist, a Royal Society research fellow, and a professor at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the High Energy Physics group at the University of Manchester, and works on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. He is also working on the FP420 R&D project in an international collaboration to upgrade the ATLAS and the CMS experiment by installing additional, smaller detectors at a distance of 420 meters from the interaction points of the main experiments.

In 1986 Cox was invited to join a local rock band called Dare as keyboard player. They recorded 2 albums and toured worldwide with Jimmy Page, Gary Moore, Europe and others. Dare broke up in 1992 and Cox left music to study physics. After attending Hulme Grammar School in Oldham he studied Physics at the University of Manchester where in 1993, whilst still studying, he joined D:Ream, a band with three top-ten singles on the UK charts, including a number one hit, New Labour election anthem Things Can Only Get Better. By the time D:Ream disbanded in 1997, Cox had earned a first class honours degree in physics from the University of Manchester, where he was later awarded a PhD in high energy particle physics, based on his thesis drawn from work he did for the H1 experiment at the particle accelerator HERA at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg.

Cox has received many awards for his efforts to publicise science. In 2002 he was elected an International Fellow of the Explorers Club and in 2006 Cox received the British Association Lord Kelvin Award for this work. A frequent lecturer, he was keynote speaker at the Australian Science Festival in 2006. Cox is also known for his involvement in science programmes for BBC radio and television, including In Einstein's Shadow, the BBC Horizon series ("Large Hadron Collider and the Big Bang", "What On Earth Is Wrong With Gravity" and "Do You Know What Time It Is?") and for voiceovers on the BBC's Bitesize revision programmes. Cox was the science adviser for the sci-fi movie Sunshine and was featured on the Discovery Channel special Megaworld: Switzerland. He also gives regular lectures on the LHC.


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