Head of Physics, Simon Booth, welcomed the School community to join British Science Week on Monday 11th March with his Collect on Time. The British Science Association are celebrating the 30th anniversary of British Science Week this year so it is fitting that they have chosen Time as the unifying theme for 2024.
Simon, adorned with his pocket watch prop, introduced the Collect with an overview of time and how we perceive it, engaging his audience with an interactive experiment to gauge when a minute had passed without any external guidance. Sharing fascinating facts such as the notion that light from quasars can take 12 billion lightyears to reach the Earth Simon posed the idea of the past interacting with the future and linked this to the concept that our current actions can impact on our future selves.
The community were able to reflect on the desirability of being able to thank our past selves for making good choices such as getting enough sleep, eating healthily and being kind to others. The audience were delighted to find easter eggs under some of the seats in the Main Hall – a live demonstration of how the past can Interact with the present!
The Collect ended with a moment of time travel as Simon whizzed everyone through the final 10 minutes with his clever on screen time trick and the Collect dispersed for break at 1m/s/s.
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