Professor Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary, University of London. He read mathematics as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, and studied for his doctorate under Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology. He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity in 1976, took up a Senior Research Fellowship at the Institute of Astronomy in 1980, and moved to Queen Mary in 1985. He has also held visiting professorships at Kyoto University and Tokyo University and is a frequent visitor to institutes in America and Canada. His professional area of research is cosmology and relativistic astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe, black holes, dark matter and the anthropic principle. His recent books are “Universe or Multiverse?” and “Quantum Black Holes”. He has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and spirituality and also in psychical research, which he sees as forming a bridge between them. He is Chairman of the Scientific and Medical Network and a former President of the Society for Psychical Research.
Publications
- Universe or Multiverse?
- Quantum Black Holes – with Xavier Calmet (author) and Elizabeth Winstanley (contributor)
References
- A Quantum Shift? – Where we seem to be now on Life after Death
- Annual Gathering – 40 Years of Widening Horizons
- Can we Resolve the Tension between Science and Spirituality? – The Double Star of Truth
- Carr, Bernard, Emeritus Professor
- London Group 06-2017 – Facing up to Mind and Spirit: do we need a Post-Materialist Science?
- Network Review Spring 2015
- Network Review Summer 2010
- Space, Time and Consciousness – Alan Wallace and Bernard Carr