Media Coverage and Outreach
Radio/Podcasts
I recently had the pleasure of appearing on the BBC radio show/podcast The Inquiry, talking about time travel in General Relativity: (My part starts at around 17m20s)Thanks to @ColourfulCosmos, @AstroKatie, @DrLukeButcher and @JamesGleick for taking the time to talk to us about fantastical machines, wormholes and how not to get turned into spaghetti!
— BBC The Inquiry (@BBCTheInquiry) June 6, 2019
Press
Back in 2014, my work on wormholes garnered some attention from the popular press. Anil Ananthaswamy contacted me a few days after I uploaded my paper to ArXiv, interviewed me over the phone, and wrote up a nice little article in New Scientist. Things spread from there: As you might expect, most of these articles exaggerate my findings somewhat. The Daily Mail one is particularly overblown, and erroneously calls me "Professor Butcher", but at least the comments are kind of amusing.TV
All this internet chatter piqued the interest of the Science Channel, and they cast me in Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, season 6 episode 2: "Can time go Backwards?". I explained my research using wicker-basket wormholes weaved by Lise Bech.Here's a behind-the-scenes shot:
Stage
Pint of Science is a global science festival, in which researcher share their work with the public in an informal setting like a pub or cafe. As part of Edinburgh's 2016 "Atoms to Galaxies" event, I gave a lighthearted overview of...
Here I am, on stage at the Three Sisters pub:
