Oh, that's a big question.

Okay.

No.

Do you believe it?

Go.

No, I guess you have to put me down in the in the Don't knows column on that one.

I'm an agnostic.

No, I don't.

Do you believe in God?

No.

Absolutely not.

No evidence for it.

It's interesting.

It's actually a topic of interest Me a lot because I met scientists.

You know, there are fundamentalist Christian physicists.

There are storage atheist physicist, I would say probably the store J P s are probably in the majority.

I mean, I can't prove that there is no God kept her, but there is one.

But as far as belief goes, I don't believe that there is one.

Do you believe in God?

No, really.

I don't believe in the sort of Judea Christian guard.

But then I also don't believe that the universe was sneezed out of the nose of the great green Arkan seizure.

I don't believe that it was brought into existence by the flames.

Forgetting monster.

I don't believe the doors.

You so whatever.

God you can think off.

There are an infinite number of possibilities because I'm a scientist What I'm interested in is evidence.

There's no contradiction.

It's possible to both have a religious belief on dhe to be a scientist.

For my part, I guess maybe I just like the imagination or the leap of faith.

You need to actually actually believe in religion as well.

So you have to put me down in the agnostics.

Calm my guess.

Departure from religion Kim, I think as early as nine or 10.

When I was, we were being taught about Ah, big element of the Catholic Vega fit, which is called transubstantiation.

Transubstantiation, for those who don't know means that during the Eucharist join the sort of communion ceremony.

The body is that the bread is actually physically changed, whatever that means in terms of Catholic doctrine into the into the body of Christ.

I got very excited as a nine year old and stuck my hand up excitedly in the classical.

Look, look, I gotta make the scope for Christmas.

What we could do you could do is really great experiment.

We can look at the host beforehand, and then we can do the Holy Communion thing, and then we can look at it after it and compare the two will not be a great experiment.

I got sent out of the class on dhe also know percent of the parish priest.

I was told that those type of questions or not the question you should ask.

Just observe the world.

Make your own own opinion about it.

So religion and I departed a wears very, very long time ago.

Anyway, I think religion is wonderful for all the good work it does.

But I can't find my way to believe in it in God.

Is that fair?

You keep your mouth closed.

What's your favorite astronomical feature?

My favorite astronomical phenomenon are comets when you can see them in the sky and they just hang there for months and you just watch them.

I'm fascinated by that.

So it's got to be.

I think it's those star forming pillars that Hubble Space Telescope took this truly amazing picture, which is a little strange because actually, the main thing I research on his Galaxies, but actually in terms of beautiful pictures, that really is stunning and it's just because it's such a it's such a beautiful object.

It's nothing to do with the fact that it's an astronomical object.

If I'd seen that picture hung up in an art gallery, I said, That's a really pretty picture.

There's a bright star just out of the picture, which is kind of blazing down on it and is eroding these pillows away until you see these pillars of gas and a little stars just started to pop out from them.

So from scientific point of view, it's fascinating, but fundamentally, because it's a very pretty picture.

I have a particular favorite picture, which you can look up on the Internet.

It's It's a picture by the Hubble Space Telescope off the galaxy cluster able 20 to 18.

And it's one of the iconic images because it shows really spectacular examples of gravitational lensing, which is something that I've worked on in the past.

But I like this picture because just at a glance, it tells us to really amazing things about the universe.

First, that Einstein was right and that mass bends light, and secondly, that dark matter exists.

It's a lot to infer from one image, but it's a pretty powerful package, and it looks beautiful as well.

My favorite astronomical feature.

I think my favorite foot is something you can't see with the naked eye.

It's the Hubble deep field image, the one where you look at it and you realize that there are faint blue objects in the image that you know what they're about 10 billion years old and you just think you're looking anything.

That light has been travelling for 10 billion years, and it's just remarkable.

That's that's the remarkable thing about astronomy that when you look out, you're not just looking at beautiful things.

You're not just looking at large distances you're looking back in time on that is quite amazing.