Why can't he understand it? It's so obvious...... when you learn sth, please learn them from the beginning, please don't suddenly ask a very advanced level of something. (and I think Pro Cox has explained pretty clearly and simple) And when you don't get it, please don't blame anyone or even swear!!!
Everyone was a laymen before they were taught any aspect of any discipline. Being a teacher means you have to change your approach to change the student and then you learn something about yourself. What did Brian Cox learn? He should have learned that you cannot physically describe a 4-D phenomena with a 3-D example. Imagine space-time is a trampoline and you put a ball on it and it curves it. That's gravity. That's just wrong but how many time have you heard that example.
Brain Cox called a sound wave a transverse wave, I thought it was a compression wave. First mistake. Brain Cox tried to describe a four-dimensional structure using a three-dimensional analysis. Second mistake. People are always trying to described space-time physically when it has no physical representation.
@BinaryStars100 You have to remember that he's explaining it to a laymen. We have stupid ape brains not built to understand 4 dimensional non physical phenomenon.
@BinaryStars100 They are compression waves but they can also be traverse waves when transmitted through solids. I think he just got his words mixed up because he went from talking about water to sound...plus he was on a rant. I think we can forgive him for that little slip up! :-)
Gravitational waves are fluxes in space-time. What is space-time? According to Einstein there is no physical picture because no one sees in four dimensions, so lets make it real. Space is a vibrating medium. Vibrations appear to move through space like fans standing up and down during a sporting event. Force fields are coupled to space so space vibrates to synchronize them. Wave functions and space-time are the same phenomena. See my peer-reviewed post.
As a curious two-year-old, I have no problem understanding this simple, yet intricate, explanation of wave motion. Alas, even with my very basic knowledge of Probability Theory, I realise that Professor Cox is very unlikely to be my first science teacher when I reach school age in three year's time.
Maybe mother can perambulate me to one of his lectures. That should suffice for now; I should be allowed in, as I am very well behaved for my age.
what isnt so intuitive about what he is saying is that our perception of what a wave is doing is that it is propagating along a radial line from the center. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. What is happening is that particles are bouncing up and down in alternating intensities as the wave FORM moves outward and these particles are along a transverse axis to the wave form itself. Did this help?
I am 12 and yet i understand completly the relativistic ensitein ideas of graity, if you think of the space-time fabric and heavy objects (sense time is inversebly proportional to velocitry) construct gravitational waves as a result
Gawd!! Stop messing with The Professor!! "why is that not obvious?" well Brian, it is! The person asking is just weird! I'm in year nine and I COMPLETELY understood what you said I have complete sympathy for you Brian, explaining to an idiot is very hard to do; Darn near impossible if you ask me... But no one did so I answered anyway :)
wow, i had year 10 and 11 off and even i understand what he means... isn't a wave simply "one pushes the other, into another, into another"? meaning it's not the original that hit you?
its just a simple misconception of what a wave is and perhaps i think people struggle to relate that something that can be used to describe motion in water can also be used to describe many other physical phenomena
@verticalsmurf The best way to visualize gravitational waves is to stretch out a slinky. If you look down the length of the slinky as you pound one end, you'll see the pressure wave bounce back and forth along the slinky. If you tape objects onto the slinky, near each other, you'll see them spreading apart and getting close together in succession. This represents the compression of atoms in a gravity wave. Btw i'm 31 not 16, and i just learned this 2 years ago.
Dr Cox is incredibly smart, but perhaps in his higher thinking, he can't figure out how to dumb it down for the rest of us. He talks about waves moving, stretching and squashing through space, that's fine, I don't understand it. I know that is above me, but then I get lost again when he describes a wave as a disturbance that moves, that I can understand - a surfing wave, still a fluid wave
@verticalsmurf well it did made sense when Brian Cox explained the water waves being disturbed by a caused vibration but the stretching and squashing is what he is probably referring to the General of Relativity on gravitational wave. That's probably why the producer didn't understood and didn't knew that theory by A.E. in physics. Brian is a professor and the producer is just an average down-to-earth person that knows the simple wave definition. It's not really his fault but he shouldn't b mad.
@hazelinspace - That is the thing, you are 16. Your brain catches on and learns easily. When I was 16 I knew everything. Wait 10 years, if you are smarter than the 16 year olds when you are 26, then you get to gloat.
@verticalsmurf No. Not necessarily. If you put all 960 students from my school in a room together, probably about 5, MAYBE 10 percent would understand. The fact that I'm 16 has nothing to do with it.
Fascinating to see that Brian Cox who is supposed to be a great communicator of science cannot get it when an ordinary person who has had a very basic science education in school has misconceptions about what waves are and how they work. The role of educator is to be able to lead him out of his misconceptions and muddle.
Not sure if Brian Cox would survive in a classroom - the question is a misunderstanding of the nature of waves that is commonly heard - the problem he has is that he understands waves as some one who has done a physics degree and the producer is someone who occasionally listened in physics lessons. Brian Cox cannot think down to that level.
isn't the issue here that brian cox isn't explaining what a wave is/the difference between longitudinal and transverse? i mean, the interviewer is being a bit of a dick, but i don't think he's explaining very well either.
@FatRakoon In sound waves, the medium, moves PARALLEL to the direction of the impulse...LIGHT creates fields which are TRANSVERSE to the direction of the motion of the photons......geeshh....
@MarkDanBrooke In solids they can be. I think he was just saying that the direction of the oscillation is at right angles to the direction the wave is moving in.
Okay someone correct me if I'm wrong, but is it basically like if a ball went through a pool of water. The ball moves through the water, bending the water, ect. But because the ball, or wave, is made of such a weak force you don't notice it and you can't see it happen?
Brian could have explained it a lot more simply, thusly: Imagine a wave in a box with a radioactive substance that has a 50% chance at any moment of firing a particle that triggers an explosive device. If subsequent movement of the wave after that explosion/non-explosion was detected by opening two slits in the side of the box, the instruments would measure the resultant phenomena either as a wave or as a particle depending on how close to the speed of light the observer was traveling at.
The interviewer IS weird but TRYING to become smarter than Dr. Cox. Why the hell in this world is he taking an interview which is not meant for bloody stupid people like himself?
DAvid Icke is the interveiwer and he needs to turn it into a wave so he can sell his stupid hullshit thoeries about everyone secretly being reptiles and demons. To bad this is REAL science DAvid ole boy. Tough!
@jimmyti9cer Dude I hope you are not referring me with that moron word if you are than you making big mistake cause you are the true moron. Mr Cox's explanation it doesn't make lots of sense cause he is trying to explain what he is able capture with instruments but their is a part he still don't understand why gravity moves. Do you know why? I doubtful if you can get close enough with any explanation.
@natmanprime Is that best shot you can give! take look your self in the mirror you may find out you is true moron I will not hesitate to say the truth to any bodies face if they are wrong. If Brian Cox real scientist it shouldn't be difficult for him give good explanation what is gravity and why is it moves. But how you can see his explanation make no sense the way as you.
@natmanprime I don't know why I lower my self to yours and responded to your email. Perhaps it anger me your language. Your brain is already rusted how possibly way you will be able understand what I'm trying to explain. I'm not trying to show I'm better than any body if you are thinking that way then you are dead wrong. The only thing I want to show to everyone I have the key to the secrets of the universe and what I know is real not fake shit.
@natmanprime I'm egomaniac I will tell you you're fully shit, no body so far complain about my English except those guys from NASA and the ones associating with NASA. I speak two more languages beside English how many languages do you speak beside English. You guys have no appreciation what I want to share with you, people like you going through youtube make sure if someone knows more than NASA scientists you blocking them with every means make sure general public wont find out any of it.
Brian I feel very proud of you. It seems to me you are close to comprehend how gravity works. But gravity is not a wave form and it doesn't have vibration is that simple it is more than wave form and vibration.
I preferred Sagan rolling the ball on the rubber sheet. He made it understandable. Points of the sheet, NEAR where the ball went, got stretched, even though nothing physical passed through.
I don't think anyone is stupid here - it's just a matter of understanding and perception - everyone is different in this way, and they are talking about an abstract thought. More importantly, did they ever find out which sandwich the producer was talking about, and what actually did happen to that sandwich once they sent a gravity wave to attack it?
The producer is a stupid, silly git. You can dumb down this only so much, not everyone is expected to understand everything. Why is this troll producing a science show anyway? Brian Cox gets the Queens prize for patience.
the producer understooded at first but didn't communicate that very well(with the flat representation of a bend moving through space-time) and brian said it was wrong so it just confused everything. i don't think he's stupid at all- i know what he meant and said it in an ambiguous way.
do sound waves not affect the density of air, at all? or do water waves not affect the density of water, even slightly, as the waves are passing through..??
IMAO your producer is not phrasing his question correctly & his question really isn't very fair. "What happens as a wave goes through space time"? His answer can only address effects of GW upon a specific type of mass/matter or "as observed" many variables such as nearest bodies of m & d to said bodies,.also w/ higgs field discovery and understanding "before christmas 2011" & explanations of interaction w/ may reveal that he wasn't quite ready for the answer.
My reading of this conversation is that Brian Cox doesn't understand the producer's point (thinking of the viewer) about needing to explain why a gravity wave (which has the characteristics of an oscillation) would affect the density (compression and rarefaction) of space-time (sound waves don't affect the density of air, for example, nor do water waves affect the density of water). "Why is that not obvious?" says Brian Cox. Because it isn't. Even wave speed itself is dependent on density.
He should have used the analogy of the Mexican Wave. The "wave" appears to move but the people forming the wave stand still. Its the propagation of the movement that creates what we call a wave.
I think Brian was being deliberately elusive. He should have seen that the producer was only thinking in terms of water waves and misunderstood that the wave "moved"
the other guy just doesnt seem able to grasp something he cant see or feel. What i would have asked Brian is, how would a gravity wave manifest itself? what would a gravity wave moving through say a football or sandwich in this case actually look like?
are gravity waves subject to impedance? Can their amplitude, frequency be modified by the mediums which they pass through? if anyone can pose a response I appreciate it.
@wowsa0 You are right in that they are longitudinal waves in the direction of motion & that is the real world & is fact. BUT I think the way that Brian is thinking about it is also valid in the way that the intensity of the wave can be described as transverse to the direction of motion. Thus.. for once in physics... you're both right IMO. If you've not already seen it, check out Rubens tube experiment. I'm not claiming this is what a soundwave looks like but it represents Brian's viewpoint well.
isn't it a bit like a slinky... when you make a wave move through that. Im sure you can explain most things in life with a slinky. The chap in this video might just understand that too!
It's amazing how chirpy Brian comes across in the series when has to put up with total morons like his this for months on end. the guy deserves a medal.
I think the producer was wondering what happens to the objects within the space-time as it expands and contracts, but he wasn't able to articulate it. I think that's why he mentioned riding a water wave. Brian can't understand his low-level thinking, and the producer can't understand Brain's high-level thinking. Communication breakdown, perhaps?
small note, Isn't sound wave a Longitudinal Wave? Google : Longitudinal wave and See the Wikipedia Article. Was a good try, I just think the producer wants a "simpler" explanation of waves and I don't think it gets any simpler.
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Brian Cox is a clown working at the $6 billion LHC Circus. Brian, we live in an Electric Universe, not a gravitational universe. Black Holes, gravity waves, dark matter, dark energy and all this other conjured up stuff do not exist. We need to stop wasting money searching for new particles and forces invented by mathematicians. A good measure of a theory is its ability to predict the outcome of new observations or explain them without introducing additional tailor-made concepts.
@vlatin1 , you're a fucking idiot, I could barely finish reading your comment on this video. "We need to stop wasting money searching for new particles and forces invented by mathematicians." Are you kidding me? You must be religious to BELIEVE something like this lol. Just cancel your service with your ISP so noone has to read your idiotic level of thinking again.
@Rebun24 That is the general misconception. There is no physical evidence for the existence of infinitely dense point masses. Black holes are theoretical mathematical concepts. Jets of matter have been seen escaping the centre of black holes. This new observation, falsifies current black hole theories. Cosmologist’s came up with accretion discs to explain how this was possible. This is what I mean, when I say, “introducing additional tailor-made concepts”.
@vlatin1 Hi, sorry to jump in on your twos discussion, but I think the point Rebun24 was maming is that black holes have been directly observed, however you are right that there can never be any direct physical evidence for the black hole having an infinitely dense object at its centre. I think this is why cosmologists will still ALWAYS refer to them as black holes, and NEVER as singularities. A singularity is something for a particle physicist or a theoretical physicist to worry about.
Why can't he understand it? It's so obvious...... when you learn sth, please learn them from the beginning, please don't suddenly ask a very advanced level of something. (and I think Pro Cox has explained pretty clearly and simple) And when you don't get it, please don't blame anyone or even swear!!!
sfa6a 2 days ago
it just goes to show,some people have their positions thru longevity,
this producer clearly doesnt owe his position to intellect
virtualjones 1 week ago
Everyone was a laymen before they were taught any aspect of any discipline. Being a teacher means you have to change your approach to change the student and then you learn something about yourself. What did Brian Cox learn? He should have learned that you cannot physically describe a 4-D phenomena with a 3-D example. Imagine space-time is a trampoline and you put a ball on it and it curves it. That's gravity. That's just wrong but how many time have you heard that example.
BinaryStars100 1 week ago
brian cox is an island in a sea of diarrhea (the producer)
vzclubbie 1 week ago
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Flextaa 4 hours ago
@vzclubbie wtf?
Flextaa 4 hours ago
Brain Cox called a sound wave a transverse wave, I thought it was a compression wave. First mistake. Brain Cox tried to describe a four-dimensional structure using a three-dimensional analysis. Second mistake. People are always trying to described space-time physically when it has no physical representation.
BinaryStars100 1 week ago
@BinaryStars100 You have to remember that he's explaining it to a laymen. We have stupid ape brains not built to understand 4 dimensional non physical phenomenon.
albinoman13bt 1 week ago
@BinaryStars100 They are compression waves but they can also be traverse waves when transmitted through solids. I think he just got his words mixed up because he went from talking about water to sound...plus he was on a rant. I think we can forgive him for that little slip up! :-)
AmarisStar 1 week ago
lame-o interviewer not worthy of mr. cox's time.
scarpellios 1 week ago
Gravitational waves are fluxes in space-time. What is space-time? According to Einstein there is no physical picture because no one sees in four dimensions, so lets make it real. Space is a vibrating medium. Vibrations appear to move through space like fans standing up and down during a sporting event. Force fields are coupled to space so space vibrates to synchronize them. Wave functions and space-time are the same phenomena. See my peer-reviewed post.
BinaryStars100 1 week ago
As a curious two-year-old, I have no problem understanding this simple, yet intricate, explanation of wave motion. Alas, even with my very basic knowledge of Probability Theory, I realise that Professor Cox is very unlikely to be my first science teacher when I reach school age in three year's time.
Maybe mother can perambulate me to one of his lectures. That should suffice for now; I should be allowed in, as I am very well behaved for my age.
jazzx251 1 week ago
is that tv producer fucking stupid
NeroHero07 2 weeks ago
This film crew are thick as shit. I feel sorry for him having to have to put up with those planks.
Meduzi 2 weeks ago 3
I love this so much. Brian Cox, as always is explaining something wonderfully and when some guy argues with him... TOUGH!
theguyfromdownend 3 weeks ago 2
lmao
1080portal 3 weeks ago
Even though he was getting pished he kept his cool.
Thats what amazing people do ;D
Glamberter 3 weeks ago
what isnt so intuitive about what he is saying is that our perception of what a wave is doing is that it is propagating along a radial line from the center. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. What is happening is that particles are bouncing up and down in alternating intensities as the wave FORM moves outward and these particles are along a transverse axis to the wave form itself. Did this help?
funboytim 3 weeks ago
It's funny to see Brian Cox angry, he is usually portrayed as a saint, so good to see he can get pissed. He is a legend though
DomDification 3 weeks ago
Why is Cox bothering to explain it to that guy anyway? He sounds like a douchebag and is obviously not listening but trying to make Cox look bad
Denizen36 3 weeks ago
i think someone didn't pay attention in science class!
mrfrosty8172 4 weeks ago
I am 12 and yet i understand completly the relativistic ensitein ideas of graity, if you think of the space-time fabric and heavy objects (sense time is inversebly proportional to velocitry) construct gravitational waves as a result
nicoeste8765 4 weeks ago
Gawd!! Stop messing with The Professor!! "why is that not obvious?" well Brian, it is! The person asking is just weird! I'm in year nine and I COMPLETELY understood what you said I have complete sympathy for you Brian, explaining to an idiot is very hard to do; Darn near impossible if you ask me... But no one did so I answered anyway :)
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Holy shit, I'm getting sympathy headaches for Brian. Whoever he is talking to is combatively stupid.
moniker127 1 month ago
wow, i had year 10 and 11 off and even i understand what he means... isn't a wave simply "one pushes the other, into another, into another"? meaning it's not the original that hit you?
badajozb 1 month ago
@badajozb sorry i might be thinking of particles so forgive me if i sound think (at least not as thick as the interviewer)!
badajozb 1 month ago
The Producer was definately trolling :-). But it was a great reaction.
TheGrumpstein 1 month ago
the producer has clearly not done GCSE physics, waves are such simple things that you learn at around the age of around 14.
MLangan86 1 month ago
1:20 are you being weird now? brilliant!
MLangan86 1 month ago
I love you.
kimsmells1 1 month ago
its just a simple misconception of what a wave is and perhaps i think people struggle to relate that something that can be used to describe motion in water can also be used to describe many other physical phenomena
reelbiglurch 1 month ago
Let's be frank, the producer seems like a CUNT
Sammo1357 1 month ago 8
@verticalsmurf The best way to visualize gravitational waves is to stretch out a slinky. If you look down the length of the slinky as you pound one end, you'll see the pressure wave bounce back and forth along the slinky. If you tape objects onto the slinky, near each other, you'll see them spreading apart and getting close together in succession. This represents the compression of atoms in a gravity wave. Btw i'm 31 not 16, and i just learned this 2 years ago.
deluxeassortment 1 month ago
DanIsNotOnFire brought me here!!! :cD
77Niamh77 2 months ago 14
Dr Cox is incredibly smart, but perhaps in his higher thinking, he can't figure out how to dumb it down for the rest of us. He talks about waves moving, stretching and squashing through space, that's fine, I don't understand it. I know that is above me, but then I get lost again when he describes a wave as a disturbance that moves, that I can understand - a surfing wave, still a fluid wave
verticalsmurf 2 months ago 4
@verticalsmurf well it did made sense when Brian Cox explained the water waves being disturbed by a caused vibration but the stretching and squashing is what he is probably referring to the General of Relativity on gravitational wave. That's probably why the producer didn't understood and didn't knew that theory by A.E. in physics. Brian is a professor and the producer is just an average down-to-earth person that knows the simple wave definition. It's not really his fault but he shouldn't b mad.
salviileo 3 weeks ago
This producer is a mong!
Chrisindapurplehouse 2 months ago
I understand everything that he says perfectly. I'm 16. Is it really that hard to understand?
hazelinspace 2 months ago 3
@hazelinspace - That is the thing, you are 16. Your brain catches on and learns easily. When I was 16 I knew everything. Wait 10 years, if you are smarter than the 16 year olds when you are 26, then you get to gloat.
verticalsmurf 2 months ago
@verticalsmurf No. Not necessarily. If you put all 960 students from my school in a room together, probably about 5, MAYBE 10 percent would understand. The fact that I'm 16 has nothing to do with it.
Don't want an argument. Just saying (:
hazelinspace 2 months ago
@hazelinspace I'm jealous, I'd love to be able to understand this!
verticalsmurf 2 months ago
Fascinating to see that Brian Cox who is supposed to be a great communicator of science cannot get it when an ordinary person who has had a very basic science education in school has misconceptions about what waves are and how they work. The role of educator is to be able to lead him out of his misconceptions and muddle.
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@johncrwarner i think he came thru clearly. the tv producer is just dumb.
EchoRecon1 2 months ago
@EchoRecon1
Not sure if Brian Cox would survive in a classroom - the question is a misunderstanding of the nature of waves that is commonly heard - the problem he has is that he understands waves as some one who has done a physics degree and the producer is someone who occasionally listened in physics lessons. Brian Cox cannot think down to that level.
johncrwarner 2 months ago
I love Prof Cox.....he is soooooo out of my league though....intellectually speaking, but I find him fascinating.xxxxxx
1980FREIDA 2 months ago
this reminds me of some of my private tutoring. i was like "how can someone not understand this??"
Boxjellyfisch 2 months ago
God... It's like arguing with your history professor over history. YOU CANNOT WIN! They've studied this for so many years XD
Codeafo1 2 months ago
isn't the issue here that brian cox isn't explaining what a wave is/the difference between longitudinal and transverse? i mean, the interviewer is being a bit of a dick, but i don't think he's explaining very well either.
PolarSquid 2 months ago 3
@PolarSquid Longitudinal waves don't move media, either (beyond a little bit).
HerrLip84 2 months ago
idiot tv producer
Nightwisher87 3 months ago
@MarkDanBrooke
He never said that.
he said "Soundwaves travel, Transverse to the direction of travel"
And... They do.
FatRakoon 3 months ago
@FatRakoon In sound waves, the medium, moves PARALLEL to the direction of the impulse...LIGHT creates fields which are TRANSVERSE to the direction of the motion of the photons......geeshh....
spyderkat 2 months ago
@MarkDanBrooke In solids they can be. I think he was just saying that the direction of the oscillation is at right angles to the direction the wave is moving in.
evildave9000 3 months ago
Brian is one of the best as well as most watchable celebrity intellectuals on the AIR WAVES...
Earthbase7 3 months ago
The producer reminds me of karl pilkington
MrPwnzorrosco 3 months ago 4
I don't get it, why is this hard to grasp? This producer is a real dickhead, do you even need qualifications to get into TV?
TheSulphyr 3 months ago
Okay someone correct me if I'm wrong, but is it basically like if a ball went through a pool of water. The ball moves through the water, bending the water, ect. But because the ball, or wave, is made of such a weak force you don't notice it and you can't see it happen?
That probably makes no sense...
HNABYN 3 months ago
the interviewer was a retarded mongoloid... 'nuf said...
millsybhoy 3 months ago
Brian could have explained it a lot more simply, thusly: Imagine a wave in a box with a radioactive substance that has a 50% chance at any moment of firing a particle that triggers an explosive device. If subsequent movement of the wave after that explosion/non-explosion was detected by opening two slits in the side of the box, the instruments would measure the resultant phenomena either as a wave or as a particle depending on how close to the speed of light the observer was traveling at.
robertdee 3 months ago
Dumb dudes naturally feel smarter by arguing with smart guys, or stumping smart guys. I don't blame the guy. It's just human nature.
DamionCrane 3 months ago
The interviewer IS weird but TRYING to become smarter than Dr. Cox. Why the hell in this world is he taking an interview which is not meant for bloody stupid people like himself?
9906197439 3 months ago
A wave is like information travelling through a medium
waycoolzing 3 months ago
WHICH FOOL doesnt understand dr. Cox ?! Who was doctor talking to ?!? An idiot ?
aFemale1 3 months ago
DAvid Icke is the interveiwer and he needs to turn it into a wave so he can sell his stupid hullshit thoeries about everyone secretly being reptiles and demons. To bad this is REAL science DAvid ole boy. Tough!
truthseeker010101 3 months ago
The interviewer sounds like a complete moron. You can clearly see he is ruining Brian Cox's passion. It's kind of sad! :(
cripp3r007 3 months ago
I'd love to have him as a teacher Q_Q Got the book yesterday ^_^
TheDrakaan 3 months ago
just stick to producing....
phattown213 3 months ago
wtf_?
tepanec 3 months ago
"Tough"
laymans term for "fuck your an idiot"
bullamarta 3 months ago
1:06 "I can't see that as a wave"
"Tough"
SolMaster 4 months ago 65
tell him not to worry about it and just accept it because that is how god made it and he works in mysterious ways.
masluxx 4 months ago
LOL. oh poor Brian...
aqouby 4 months ago
IT'S A FUCKING WAVE DO YOU NOW KNOW WHAT A WAVE IS I.. agh.
7j8i9m 4 months ago
@7j8i9m Do you know why it has wave? Do you know why gravity moves?
Levon9404 4 months ago
"Tough!"
patricknelson 4 months ago
its difficult to explain complex phenomena to a total moron
jimmyti9cer 4 months ago
@jimmyti9cer Dude I hope you are not referring me with that moron word if you are than you making big mistake cause you are the true moron. Mr Cox's explanation it doesn't make lots of sense cause he is trying to explain what he is able capture with instruments but their is a part he still don't understand why gravity moves. Do you know why? I doubtful if you can get close enough with any explanation.
Levon9404 4 months ago
@Levon9404 moron
natmanprime 4 months ago
@natmanprime Is that best shot you can give! take look your self in the mirror you may find out you is true moron I will not hesitate to say the truth to any bodies face if they are wrong. If Brian Cox real scientist it shouldn't be difficult for him give good explanation what is gravity and why is it moves. But how you can see his explanation make no sense the way as you.
Levon9404 4 months ago
@Levon9404 ur a mron becos of the oafish way ur speaking to everyone
now fuck off
natmanprime 4 months ago
@Levon9404 ur a mron becos of the oafish way ur speaking to everyone
now fuck off
natmanprime 4 months ago
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Levon9404 4 months ago
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Levon9404 4 months ago
fck off
Levon9404 4 months ago
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Levon9404 4 months ago
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@natmanprime you are a uneducated creature
Levon9404 4 months ago
@natmanprime I don't know why I lower my self to yours and responded to your email. Perhaps it anger me your language. Your brain is already rusted how possibly way you will be able understand what I'm trying to explain. I'm not trying to show I'm better than any body if you are thinking that way then you are dead wrong. The only thing I want to show to everyone I have the key to the secrets of the universe and what I know is real not fake shit.
Levon9404 4 months ago
@Levon9404 ur an egomaniac
and u cant speak properly, so ur right i can barely understand u.
natmanprime 4 months ago
@natmanprime I'm egomaniac I will tell you you're fully shit, no body so far complain about my English except those guys from NASA and the ones associating with NASA. I speak two more languages beside English how many languages do you speak beside English. You guys have no appreciation what I want to share with you, people like you going through youtube make sure if someone knows more than NASA scientists you blocking them with every means make sure general public wont find out any of it.
Levon9404 4 months ago
@Levon9404 you're also insecure and paranoid.
i was only commenting on my understanding of your language use since u brought it up.
i really don't care how well you speak.
natmanprime 4 months ago
@natmanprime I have no reason to be paranoid, why should I. Maybe insecure because I don't trust any body.
Levon9404 4 months ago
@Levon9404 i'm not 'making sure public won't find out any of it'
that is your paranoid fantasy
i really couldnt give a fuck about you
i was looking for interesting comments on this page but its filled up with your nonsense.
go away.
natmanprime 4 months ago
You should try to explain why is that gravity moves to begin with Mr Cox.
Levon9404 4 months ago
Mr Cox If you were right with your explanations. Planets could of slowly move out of solar system, and up in the cooper belt.
Levon9404 4 months ago
Mr Cox If you were right with your explanation. Planets could of slowly move out of solar system and up in the cooper belt. is that simple.
Levon9404 4 months ago
Mr Cox If you were right with your explanation. Planets could of slowly move out of solar system and up in the cooper belt. is that simple.
Levon9404 4 months ago
Brian I feel very proud of you. It seems to me you are close to comprehend how gravity works. But gravity is not a wave form and it doesn't have vibration is that simple it is more than wave form and vibration.
Levon9404 4 months ago
I preferred Sagan rolling the ball on the rubber sheet. He made it understandable. Points of the sheet, NEAR where the ball went, got stretched, even though nothing physical passed through.
jimbobeire 4 months ago
I don't think anyone is stupid here - it's just a matter of understanding and perception - everyone is different in this way, and they are talking about an abstract thought. More importantly, did they ever find out which sandwich the producer was talking about, and what actually did happen to that sandwich once they sent a gravity wave to attack it?
AngeloNiklis 4 months ago
i understood after the first 10 seconds of the video.. wtf is wrong with the tv producer...
Withless92 4 months ago
The producer is a stupid, silly git. You can dumb down this only so much, not everyone is expected to understand everything. Why is this troll producing a science show anyway? Brian Cox gets the Queens prize for patience.
jdm4711 4 months ago
"I can't see that as a wave." "Tough."
kpfell 5 months ago
the guy asking the questions is a wanker
vini0120 5 months ago
i think the produceris just being a troll
nvbaileys 5 months ago 45
Who doesn't get that honestly?
Standintherain94 5 months ago
To be honest I don't understand either. But I'm not an asshole like that producer who would go on about it like that.
Jammed9000 5 months ago
easier to say: water is incompressible (approx). space time is flexible. mr COX you got to explain things better...
hyperjack555 5 months ago
what a retard
adcashmo 5 months ago
How is this guy producing a science show?! The producer that is. Brian is doing better than I would in his position lol.
NethDugan 5 months ago
Brian is far too patient and nice with this idiot, if I were at his place I would have smacked him.
The136th 5 months ago
Reminded me an awful lot on the guy in the Feynman interview about magnets: /watch?v=wMFPe-DwULM
realScyn 5 months ago
wow i hope he doesnt have to deal with this bullshit all the time when filming...! if so, i appreciate him even more
cymagen 5 months ago
haha this is hilarious....the director is a retard
cymagen 5 months ago
I understood him in seconds, who the fuck is the guy behind a camera?
wakasakiwakasaki 5 months ago
like a caterpillar moving along? is that close to how it is?
bushranger71 5 months ago
he has his heart set on his own precise vision.. and nothings gonna alter it....!
oh dear, this is non progressive behaviour....
moonboots69 5 months ago
tough.
joshp2304 5 months ago 2
the producer understooded at first but didn't communicate that very well(with the flat representation of a bend moving through space-time) and brian said it was wrong so it just confused everything. i don't think he's stupid at all- i know what he meant and said it in an ambiguous way.
jorgepeterbarton 5 months ago
Or in other words, the caterpillar effect
ThanksDoctorThoctor 5 months ago
i think someone,s a wee bit pissed..)
morphman001 5 months ago
"Space time is Stretching and squashing, Stretching and squashing.." Like :)
pateflower 5 months ago
goldenmean.info/gravityexplained/
airculpret 6 months ago
do sound waves not affect the density of air, at all? or do water waves not affect the density of water, even slightly, as the waves are passing through..??
spikegrob 6 months ago
the producer is actually a fucking idiot
TheSammypickle 6 months ago 2
fucking retard...
TheDeanoooo 6 months ago 2
IMAO your producer is not phrasing his question correctly & his question really isn't very fair. "What happens as a wave goes through space time"? His answer can only address effects of GW upon a specific type of mass/matter or "as observed" many variables such as nearest bodies of m & d to said bodies,.also w/ higgs field discovery and understanding "before christmas 2011" & explanations of interaction w/ may reveal that he wasn't quite ready for the answer.
airculpret 6 months ago
My reading of this conversation is that Brian Cox doesn't understand the producer's point (thinking of the viewer) about needing to explain why a gravity wave (which has the characteristics of an oscillation) would affect the density (compression and rarefaction) of space-time (sound waves don't affect the density of air, for example, nor do water waves affect the density of water). "Why is that not obvious?" says Brian Cox. Because it isn't. Even wave speed itself is dependent on density.
nepistepa 6 months ago
'tough'
TurKdiRty 6 months ago
hahahaha frustration is brewing in both of them!!
GirliqueDownUnder 6 months ago
So.....time is an accordion?
RandomStandardGuy 6 months ago 2
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pimpymcdougall 6 months ago
He should have used the analogy of the Mexican Wave. The "wave" appears to move but the people forming the wave stand still. Its the propagation of the movement that creates what we call a wave.
I think Brian was being deliberately elusive. He should have seen that the producer was only thinking in terms of water waves and misunderstood that the wave "moved"
kts68 6 months ago
I so feel his frustration. I hate explaining things to dumb people and especially someone like this guy.
Danbo342 6 months ago 27
@Danbo342 I hate dumb comments like yours....so I'll just smile and WAVE =)
turdodine 3 months ago
Brian has science in his mind but not his heart.
gigaboy47 6 months ago
@gigaboy47 explain 'your' thought better then...
elgatonegroo 6 months ago
@elgatonegroo I don't never feel emotions like i do when i watch Carl Sagan.
gigaboy47 6 months ago
the other guy just doesnt seem able to grasp something he cant see or feel. What i would have asked Brian is, how would a gravity wave manifest itself? what would a gravity wave moving through say a football or sandwich in this case actually look like?
khisanth75 6 months ago
To be fair, it is immense fun to wind up scientists with stupidity (genuine or not)
madlulu83 6 months ago
he doesn't know basic igcse physics and he wants to know abt gravity waves? chapter 1 buddy WAVES TRANSFER ENERGY NOT MATTER
simon199418 7 months ago
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pimpymcdougall 6 months ago
help me make that into a wave...
1:12 bahhahaha!! XD
DNesij 7 months ago
The producer just tries to put in the general audience's shoes. And many people cannot follow large and complex reasonings.
jaipipor 7 months ago
I can't quite decide if this is hilarious or depressing…
DiabolicalGenius39 7 months ago
Brian Cox needs to wave goodbye to that producer.
Gafaton 7 months ago
he should had just stood up and farted in the questioner's ears! and tells him " here's ur gravity wave, satisfied?"
what a moron!
DJGOLFVR6 7 months ago
Am I only one who noticed that this producer guy is acting like jackass?????? :|||||||
khebrela 7 months ago
@khebrela he was that throughout the entire filming lol..
PsycCentauri 7 months ago
The producer is a twat.
MichaelG99864 7 months ago
This is an excerpt from the BBC "What's Wrong With Gravity?" show. Just an fyi.
nylife 7 months ago
are gravity waves subject to impedance? Can their amplitude, frequency be modified by the mediums which they pass through? if anyone can pose a response I appreciate it.
mojokiss 7 months ago
With people like that you might as well just give up trying to explain, no hope for them.
marcrosson 7 months ago 2
I didn't think sound waves were vibrations transverse to the direction of motion...?
wowsa0 8 months ago
@wowsa0 You are right in that they are longitudinal waves in the direction of motion & that is the real world & is fact. BUT I think the way that Brian is thinking about it is also valid in the way that the intensity of the wave can be described as transverse to the direction of motion. Thus.. for once in physics... you're both right IMO. If you've not already seen it, check out Rubens tube experiment. I'm not claiming this is what a soundwave looks like but it represents Brian's viewpoint well.
BonseBalm 7 months ago
Good work Brian, this guy is a helpless git -.- ....
mystic0difference 8 months ago
isn't it a bit like a slinky... when you make a wave move through that. Im sure you can explain most things in life with a slinky. The chap in this video might just understand that too!
ukinsomniac 8 months ago
Some people just cannot understand things to matter how simply you try to explain it to them because their brains cannot make the visual leap.
moderncybersavage 8 months ago
lol, poor Brian. The BBC could save money by getting ride of thick people like the producer.
raynarks 8 months ago 3
@raynarks People who can't spell 'rid' shouldn't throw stones.
cuntylishus 7 months ago
@cuntylishus wtf, you wanker.
raynarks 7 months ago
No wonder Auntie has dumbed everything down - it's because the producers are so goddamn stooooopid!
jagara1 8 months ago
"You want me to explain what a wave looks like?" XD
You'd think a producer with a brain would be useful. ^__^
QueenDeaconite 8 months ago
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ballistichedonistic0 8 months ago
It's amazing how chirpy Brian comes across in the series when has to put up with total morons like his this for months on end. the guy deserves a medal.
ballistichedonistic0 8 months ago
im curious to hear what the other guys were about to say before the video cut out
Rebun24 8 months ago
"Are you being weird now?" LOL
Man, the produces are really stupid! xD
GeekyGirl1011 8 months ago
This should be titled "Brian Cox Explains Gravitational Waves."
mathforphysics 8 months ago
Oh brian, sound waves are longitudinal
pedrosanchez89 8 months ago
its difficult to explain cause the producers a twat.
nathninetyone 8 months ago 3
I think the producer was wondering what happens to the objects within the space-time as it expands and contracts, but he wasn't able to articulate it. I think that's why he mentioned riding a water wave. Brian can't understand his low-level thinking, and the producer can't understand Brain's high-level thinking. Communication breakdown, perhaps?
aarongrooves 8 months ago 3
small note, Isn't sound wave a Longitudinal Wave? Google : Longitudinal wave and See the Wikipedia Article. Was a good try, I just think the producer wants a "simpler" explanation of waves and I don't think it gets any simpler.
Viewer353 8 months ago
Haha, I love how the producer is so thick that Brian looks as if he is starting to doubt his own knowledge of science!
AmarisStar 9 months ago
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Brian Cox is a clown working at the $6 billion LHC Circus. Brian, we live in an Electric Universe, not a gravitational universe. Black Holes, gravity waves, dark matter, dark energy and all this other conjured up stuff do not exist. We need to stop wasting money searching for new particles and forces invented by mathematicians. A good measure of a theory is its ability to predict the outcome of new observations or explain them without introducing additional tailor-made concepts.
vlatin1 9 months ago
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@vlatin1 , you're a fucking idiot, I could barely finish reading your comment on this video. "We need to stop wasting money searching for new particles and forces invented by mathematicians." Are you kidding me? You must be religious to BELIEVE something like this lol. Just cancel your service with your ISP so noone has to read your idiotic level of thinking again.
KTHX BYE lol
hendrix5045 9 months ago
@vlatin1 incase you dont know, black holes have been proven and found through radio telescopes
Rebun24 8 months ago
@Rebun24 That is the general misconception. There is no physical evidence for the existence of infinitely dense point masses. Black holes are theoretical mathematical concepts. Jets of matter have been seen escaping the centre of black holes. This new observation, falsifies current black hole theories. Cosmologist’s came up with accretion discs to explain how this was possible. This is what I mean, when I say, “introducing additional tailor-made concepts”.
vlatin1 8 months ago
@vlatin1 Hi, sorry to jump in on your twos discussion, but I think the point Rebun24 was maming is that black holes have been directly observed, however you are right that there can never be any direct physical evidence for the black hole having an infinitely dense object at its centre. I think this is why cosmologists will still ALWAYS refer to them as black holes, and NEVER as singularities. A singularity is something for a particle physicist or a theoretical physicist to worry about.
MrClivesinger 8 months ago
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vlatin1 8 months ago