Hiranya Peiris
speaker
454 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 May
Hiranya Peiris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And my father took me and bought me a copy of A Brief History of Time.
This is the first time that I actually encountered cosmology, which is my current field of study.
It was very mind expanding.
I read it cover to cover.
I probably didn't understand everything, but I remember the diagrams from it to this day.
Like right at the end of the book, he talks about two-dimensional creatures who are trying to visualize three dimensions, and it's almost impossible.
And I think the thing that really fascinated me was that the book took me to places that didn't exist in the real world, but I could imagine them in my mind.
I didn't really like school.
I lived quite a lot in my mind.
I remember one maths exam in particular where I didn't notice several pages of questions.
I just stopped doing them and just sat there daydreaming.
And so I nearly failed that test.
Yeah.
But I do remember this wonderful teacher, Mrs. Mendes, and she had taught my mother before me.
She really tolerated the why questions.
And I must have been a very annoying kid, constantly asking why this and why that.
That's right.
So I remember one particular occasion when the Buddhist monk came to the school assembly, and there were several thousand girls there.
And he was preaching to us from the Buddhist doctrines.
And I put my hand up and asked a really impertinent question, which was, you know, in Buddhism, there's a concept called reincarnation.
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