Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:10 pm
Anyone else go to see this man on Friday in Blackburn. Must say, got to be one of the most interesting people i have ever listened too.
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Professor Brian Cox
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Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:11 pm
I think he’s brilliant - especially on his podcast that I listen to, the infinite monkey cage - some of the subjects they discuss are so interesting.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:17 pm
Went to see him in Leeds about 2 years ago and was really looking forward to it.
He lost us after about 15 minutes. More of a lecture for nuclear physicists
than entertainment for us lesser, yet still intelligent mortals.
The photography, however, is amazing.
Hope you enjoy it - report back if you would, please. Be interesting to hear
what you have to say.
He lost us after about 15 minutes. More of a lecture for nuclear physicists
than entertainment for us lesser, yet still intelligent mortals.
The photography, however, is amazing.
Hope you enjoy it - report back if you would, please. Be interesting to hear
what you have to say.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:06 pm
I thought the original poster was saying he’d been to see him last Friday as against going this Friday. I suppose it can be interpreted either way but I’m going for he went last Friday.Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:17 pmWent to see him in Leeds about 2 years ago and was really looking forward to it.
He lost us after about 15 minutes. More of a lecture for nuclear physicists
than entertainment for us lesser, yet still intelligent mortals.
The photography, however, is amazing.
Hope you enjoy it - report back if you would, please. Be interesting to hear
what you have to say.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:12 pm
He's seen some black holes in his time buy I'm not sure he'll have experienced anything quite like Blackburn before.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:15 pm
”The natural world is beautiful, but complex. The skies dance with colour. Shapes form and disappear. But this seemingly infinite complexity is just a shadow of something deeper – the underlying laws of nature. The world is beautiful to look at, but it is even more beautiful to understand.” (Brian Cox, Forces of Nature)
Brian Cox, the erudite physicist and scientific communicator has been a recent favourite of mine to watch. Documentary by documentary, I have been working through all that he currently has on offer. So it was with pleasure that I settled in to watch Cox work his way through four interesting puzzles in nature.
‘The Universe in a Snowflake’ - How can the fundamental forces of physics explain a wide breadth of natural phenomena?
‘Somewhere in Spacetime’ - How does our understanding of our motion through time and space intertwine for us to understand seasons, climate and time itself?
‘The Moth and the Flame’ - How can basic chemical relationships in the world, over vast periods of time, naturally result in the living complexity we see today?
"The Pale Blue Dot" - How do the colours of a world explain what a world is made of and how it supports life?
" James Trafford "- How a goalkeeper can get all the fundamentals wrong but is an immovable force.
Brian Cox, the erudite physicist and scientific communicator has been a recent favourite of mine to watch. Documentary by documentary, I have been working through all that he currently has on offer. So it was with pleasure that I settled in to watch Cox work his way through four interesting puzzles in nature.
‘The Universe in a Snowflake’ - How can the fundamental forces of physics explain a wide breadth of natural phenomena?
‘Somewhere in Spacetime’ - How does our understanding of our motion through time and space intertwine for us to understand seasons, climate and time itself?
‘The Moth and the Flame’ - How can basic chemical relationships in the world, over vast periods of time, naturally result in the living complexity we see today?
"The Pale Blue Dot" - How do the colours of a world explain what a world is made of and how it supports life?
" James Trafford "- How a goalkeeper can get all the fundamentals wrong but is an immovable force.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:17 pm
I used to work with his brother in law, he was an arsehole.
Not that that’s got owt to do with the price of fish but there you go.
Not that that’s got owt to do with the price of fish but there you go.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:26 pm
I wonder if it was black ?claret2018 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:17 pmI used to work with his brother in law, he was an arsehole.
Not that that’s got owt to do with the price of fish but there you go.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:57 pm
Sounds interesting ....will check him out.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:23 pm
4,000 holes.TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:12 pmHe's seen some black holes in his time buy I'm not sure he'll have experienced anything quite like Blackburn before.
Probably.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:56 pm
Yeah, but the holes were rather small, they had to count them all - the super black holes at the centre of galaxies can be the size of something like the orbit of Uranus around the sun. Now thats big - bigger even than some of the craters up Birtwistle Avenue in Colne ....which is paradoxically soley inhabited by tarmacers.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:40 pm
AKA "THE RAT RUN"..morpheus2 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 7:56 pmYeah, but the holes were rather small, they had to count them all - the super black holes at the centre of galaxies can be the size of something like the orbit of Uranus around the sun. Now thats big - bigger even than some of the craters up Birtwistle Avenue in Colne ....which is paradoxically soley inhabited by tarmacers.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:45 pm
Brilliant.bfcjg wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:15 pm”The natural world is beautiful, but complex. The skies dance with colour. Shapes form and disappear. But this seemingly infinite complexity is just a shadow of something deeper – the underlying laws of nature. The world is beautiful to look at, but it is even more beautiful to understand.” (Brian Cox, Forces of Nature)
Brian Cox, the erudite physicist and scientific communicator has been a recent favourite of mine to watch. Documentary by documentary, I have been working through all that he currently has on offer. So it was with pleasure that I settled in to watch Cox work his way through four interesting puzzles in nature.
‘The Universe in a Snowflake’ - How can the fundamental forces of physics explain a wide breadth of natural phenomena?
‘Somewhere in Spacetime’ - How does our understanding of our motion through time and space intertwine for us to understand seasons, climate and time itself?
‘The Moth and the Flame’ - How can basic chemical relationships in the world, over vast periods of time, naturally result in the living complexity we see today?
"The Pale Blue Dot" - How do the colours of a world explain what a world is made of and how it supports life?
" James Trafford "- How a goalkeeper can get all the fundamentals wrong but is an immovable force.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:47 pm
How does he sleep at night with so much going round in his head ,when they talk about millions of light years my head explodes.Funkydrummer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:17 pmWent to see him in Leeds about 2 years ago and was really looking forward to it.
He lost us after about 15 minutes. More of a lecture for nuclear physicists
than entertainment for us lesser, yet still intelligent mortals.
The photography, however, is amazing.
Hope you enjoy it - report back if you would, please. Be interesting to hear
what you have to say.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:58 pm
Or the big one that Venky’s are losing their rupees in.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 6:43 pm
He will probably want to confirm the existence of worm holes afterwards..such is the step back in time he will experience.TheFamilyCat wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:12 pmHe's seen some black holes in his time buy I'm not sure he'll have experienced anything quite like Blackburn before.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 7:11 pm
Only VK understands the science behind your last paragraph.bfcjg wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:15 pm”The natural world is beautiful, but complex. The skies dance with colour. Shapes form and disappear. But this seemingly infinite complexity is just a shadow of something deeper – the underlying laws of nature. The world is beautiful to look at, but it is even more beautiful to understand.” (Brian Cox, Forces of Nature)
Brian Cox, the erudite physicist and scientific communicator has been a recent favourite of mine to watch. Documentary by documentary, I have been working through all that he currently has on offer. So it was with pleasure that I settled in to watch Cox work his way through four interesting puzzles in nature.
‘The Universe in a Snowflake’ - How can the fundamental forces of physics explain a wide breadth of natural phenomena?
‘Somewhere in Spacetime’ - How does our understanding of our motion through time and space intertwine for us to understand seasons, climate and time itself?
‘The Moth and the Flame’ - How can basic chemical relationships in the world, over vast periods of time, naturally result in the living complexity we see today?
"The Pale Blue Dot" - How do the colours of a world explain what a world is made of and how it supports life?
" James Trafford "- How a goalkeeper can get all the fundamentals wrong but is an immovable force.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:31 pm
Rick_Muller wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:11 pmI think he’s brilliant - especially on his podcast that I listen to, the infinite monkey cage...
As good as in the Jason Bourne films. 
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2024 11:55 pm
Didn't know he was on down the road but find him extremely interesting and a great speaker, his knowledge is immense. I like him.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 12:06 am
D:REAM not making a comeback ?
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:31 am
Things can only get better
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:23 am
I find him and quite a few other modern TV presenters irritating - e.g. Alice Roberts, Helen Czerski (almost a female clone of Cox). They have this 'look at me' attitude and also this habit of appearing to be walking in front of you, turning their head and talking back whilst simultaneously offering a false smile. It's like they've been trained in the same presentational school.
It's a shame I have this problem with them because I don't doubt their abilities and the subjects they present are interesting. But then I don't even like the older version of David Attenborough.
It's a shame I have this problem with them because I don't doubt their abilities and the subjects they present are interesting. But then I don't even like the older version of David Attenborough.
Re: Professor Brian Cox
Posted: Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:31 am
Now Lucy Worsley is a different kettle of fish. Love her style and content.Hipper wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 10:23 amI find him and quite a few other modern TV presenters irritating - e.g. Alice Roberts, Helen Czerski (almost a female clone of Cox). They have this 'look at me' attitude and also this habit of appearing to be walking in front of you, turning their head and talking back whilst simultaneously offering a false smile. It's like they've been trained in the same presentational school.
It's a shame I have this problem with them because I don't doubt their abilities and the subjects they present are interesting. But then I don't even like the older version of David Attenborough.