HOW CHARL DISCOVERED HER LOVE OF PHYSICS
SINGER Charlotte Church has revealed she likes nothing better than relaxing with some quantum physics! The left-wing multimillionaire – more famous for Christmas carols and political protest – has revealed how she discovered a new passion for science in a newsagent’s. She was about to buy some “completely pointless, worthless, celebrity beauty magazine thing” at the time. She said: “I saw a copy of the New Scientist and I thought ‘What am I doing? I want to have a go of that.’” The 30-year-old added: “It sort of changed my life. I was absolutely fascinated by everything in it and that just ignited my, you know, this idea of learning about all this stuff.
“It was possible that I didn’t have to be a proper boffin or have to go to university to be interested and be able to educate myself, you know, even a little about these massive concepts.”
Charlotte says she has taken “an immense amount of comfort” in science.
“Especially when it comes to things like quantum mechanics,” she said.
“And just how odd some things about our universe and reality are, and some of these huge ideas, these mind bending ideas, I found loads of comfort in.”
Describing her excitement after reading about the Big Bounce – a theory of the creation of the universe, she said: “It was about the idea that at the point of singularity there is zero mass but infinite energy.
“And when that happens, then that is the end of general relativity.
“So the idea of trying to circumvent, how you get, you avoid the singularity, and just reading lots of people’s different ideas of how you did that, it made me have a little whoop.”
The vocalist also said she is not confident aliens would receive a warm welcome on earth. “People are pretty fearful on this planet right now,” she said.
“And I should imagine if you throw that in the mix then they might completely lose their minds entirely.”
The star was speaking on Radio 4’s The Infinite Monkey Cage, hosted by Professor Brian Cox and Robin Ince.
“I read something interesting out of Harvard,” she said.
“Some lady was saying that she thought the most likely life on another planet that we’ll ever discover won’t be biological, because there are far fewer planets that can sustain biological life.
“But actually what you are looking at is far more like superintelligent robots, like AI, who could live in all sorts of different terrain.
“The reason they have not contacted us is because they are so advanced they don’t care.
“They are totally disinterested in having a conversation.”
She added: “I quite like the idea of super-intelligent robots just patrolling the sky.”