About Benedict Rattigan

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Benedict Rattigan is a writer, editor and lecturer. He is Director of the Schweitzer Institute for Environmental Ethics, a think tank that is affiliated with Peterhouse, University of Cambridge; his fields of research include ethics, symmetry, and the relationship between order and chaos. 

Rattigan's theory of dynamic symmetry has been described by the Oxford University scientist Professor Denis Noble CBE as ‘one of the most deep theoretical insights you could have about the nature of the Universe… It couldn't be more profound. This simple insight is the sort of breakthrough we academics dream of.’ 

The theory generated a conference at the British Museum, The Language of Symmetry, in which ten leading Oxford University professors participated, as well as a Balliol College symposium, an academic journal, and a book which was published by Routledge in 2023. 

A short excerpt from a 30' documentary that was screened at the British Museum event, The Ordering Principle, can be viewed here: