E&T Magazine, Volume 16, Issue 2, Mar 2021 - Page 64-67 by IET E & T magazine - Nick Smith

Author:IET E & T magazine - Nick Smith
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Tags: Volume 16, Issue 2, Interview: Jim Al-Khalili E&T Magazine, Mar 2021 - Food Glorious Food
Published: 2021-04-30T16:17:16+00:00

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technology is going to have to be brought possibly one of the reasons he was invited

‘It’s going to be

into play to tackle things like fake news, on to the QEPrize board of judges, is because developing monitoring systems,

the century of

you don’t just want engineers judging safeguarding against cyber crime, engineering. I put it to him that he’s there to interdisciplinary science

developing AI to sift through the deluge of provide the checks and balances that will data, to help us to decide what is fake and stop the engineers promoting the practical and engineering’

what is true: what is misinformation and over the abstract. But he doesn’t much like what is reliable evidence.” There needs to be Jim Al-Khalili

that idea either, preferring to think of his a joint effort, he says, “of society adopting role as bringing a further perspective on an the critical thinking and rational approach already integrated set of disciplines. “Sure, that a scientist uses, along with the technical questions aren’t necessarily about what is physics and engineering are different. We innovations that engineers develop”.

the next particle to be found after the Higgs may use the same mathematics, computer You can’t talk with Al-Khalili for long boson, or whether string theory is correct or programs, techniques and methodologies, without the emphasis swinging back to if parallel universes exist.” What will but they are different. We’re seeing them physics, without realising that it’s not just become important, says Al-Khalili, is how mixing up with medicine, biology, genetics his job, but his passion. Having put in the physics feeds into and gets folded up with and AI.”

hard yards over three decades he feels he has other disciplines. I remind him of the old So where will physics go in the future?

reached a stage in his career where he’s no cliché that trots out the idea of biology being

“It’s going to become embedded within new longer under pressure to “churn out the to the 21st century what physics was to the areas. In 50 years’ time, we won’t be teaching publications” – ‘publish or perish’ – and 20th. It’s not an idea that impresses him and kids physics, chemistry and biology. We will

“can now explore what I find fascinating and he is glad that we are moving past it: “When be teaching them biomedical engineering.

interesting”. This has led him along the path we talk about biology in the 21st century We’ll be teaching them science ethics in of becoming more involved in the we’re are talking about areas like genetics, or environment and climate foundational questions in physics, such as bioengineering and genetics that will studies. These are all areas that include the meaning of quantum mechanics or the transform our lives. But those subjects don’t physics. Yet those boundaries, those silos nature of the direction of time. It’s all quite just rely on biology. It’s going to be the will fade away and disappear.” In fact, deep and abstract, he says, conceding that century of interdisciplinary science and physics, says one

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