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The `Time Event', the second of two public events held in partnership with
the Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society and co-funded by the
HLF Awards for All scheme, took place in the Studio Theatre, The Market
Place, Armagh, on Sunday 26 October 2003. The principal speakers
included:
- Professor John Barrow FRS (University of Cambridge), a leading
cosmologist and author, who reviewed some curious features of time in
modern cosmology and physics and looked at the possibilities and
consequences of time travel, whether time had a beginning and whether it
will have an end;
- Professor Iggy McGovern (TCD), a research physicist and poet, who
posed the question: ``What is the dimension of the present moment?'' and
looked at the treatment of Time in selected poetry; and
- Mr Malachi O'Doherty, Managing Editor of Fortnight magazine, who
presented a wide-ranging review of the subjective experience of Time,
drawing on his memoir ``I Was A Teenage Catholic''.
The investigation of `Time' from both the scientific and
humanities perspectives attracted an audience of approximately 140, from
all parts of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Further details about this
event, as well as a public information leaflet and an audio recording of
the proceedings, are available at
star.arm.ac.uk/publicevents/time.html.
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M.E. Bailey
2004-05-18