Australian Centre for Astrobiology, Macquarie University, Sydney

Remarkably, the known laws of physics do not preclude travel into the past, for example through a wormhole in space. But the very possibility unleashes bizarre paradoxes, the study of which promises to provide deep insights into the nature of reality and causality.

Paul C. W. Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, writer and broadcaster, who holds the position of Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has held previous academic appointments at the Universities of Cambridge, London, Newcastle upon Tyne and Adelaide. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. He is the author of over twenty books, including The Mind of God, Other Worlds, God and the New Physics, The Edge of Infinity, The Cosmic Blueprint, Are We Alone? The Fifth Miracle, The Last Three Minutes, About Time, and How to Build a Time Machine.

Davies’ talent as a communicator of science has been recognized in Australia by an Advance Australia Award and two Eureka Prizes, and in the UK by the 2001 Kelvin Medal and Prize by the Institute of Physics, and the 2002 Faraday Prize by The Royal Society. For his contributions to the deeper implications of science, Davies received the Templeton Prize in 1995.

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Further information is available from:

Prof. Bob Delbourgo, ph. (03)6226 2403, e-mail: Bob.Delbourgo@utas.edu.au or

Dr Elizabeth Chelkowska, ph. (03)6226 2725, e-mail: Elizabeth.Chelkowska@utas.edu.au.