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  • By god that dude has aged during the past three years. He looked 25 during his last presentation three years ago. The collider has really taken it out of him

  • @crudhousefull yeah! He looks, like, 28 now! Gosh!

  • @Eniacbc More like 40

  • @crudhousefull Well, he's 43 so he's still older than you would say.

  • 1:56 OVER 9000!!!!

  • He's pretty hip for a physicist.

  • No new worlds to conquor in the field of science........that would be depressing.

  • 1:55 OVER 9000 MAGNETS!!!

  • I dont remember reading about the LHC in the Bible of death....any creationists want to take the LHC on? anyone?....anyone.... Pretty quiet out there is crockaduck land. Maybe your dead Jew zombie carpenter forgot to mention the LHC when he was busy with the crusades or some other time while he was exterminating my species XD Creationists must simply weep when Humanity figures shit out. I need to go and line my crockaducks cage with pages from the Koran and Bible

  • china olympics = 41 billion dollars

    most important thing mankind ever did (lhc) = 6 billion dollars currently waiting for fundings

  • large hard on collider

  • OVER 9000 MAGNETS!!!!

  • @Anthonyk312 thank god i wasn't the only one to notice that.

  • I wonder how smart he will be when he is as old as Michio Kaku, in 30 years or so not only will he have had enough time to learn as much as Kaku but there will be more knowledge available to him since tech keeps improving. That being said as it stands now I prefer Kaku.

  • @Zurround100 I like michio Kaku he is a very open minded scientist,unlike cox and a few more i could mention.

  • Humphry Davy spoke well.

  • i would like this video but there are 777 likes, just seems like a number that ought not be ruined. On a more relevant note brian cox is just amazing to listen to.

  • He's cute

  • @poojadeshpande5 He's 40 years old...

  • @kidkong584 who cares :)

  • @poojadeshpande5 Maybe I just don't see it because I'm a 15 year old guy...

  • @kidkong584 now ur making much more sense ...

  • @poojadeshpande5 Umm thanks?

  • what a big flop the LHC turned out to beno new info....just such a big big dissapointment,, they ot be ashamed of there self for no producing any thing new

  • @jomill78

    Where have you been?

    The LHC has been running for years, with many new discoveries and even preliminary results are suggesting they have found the Higgs.

  • His joy and sense of wonder is contagious. I love listening to him!

  • Are they ever ganna finish building the LHC, I have high hopes for it I just know when they fire it up there ganna have all kinds of new and exciting discovories to tell us.

  • @jomill78 It is finished, look it up

  • guy laughs and stops promptly at 2:09

    i guess the ted audience isn't entirely full of smart people either.

  • brian cox is a hybrid

  • brian cox rox

  • Cool!!

  • I will respect him as soon as he tells me the secret to his hair. Shit like that shouldnt be kept secret. A man in his forties cannot possibly have the hair density of a 12 year old!!!

  • hes 43 lol

  • Brilliant, well spoken, and sexy as hell. What more could you want in a scientist?

  • @LemonDawn1 Laser eyes?

  • buddy... did he just say gold wires

  • 12,000 Amperes.. What do I say to that? HOLY SHIT, for those who don't know, 0.8A will kill you. 0.4A can paralyze you, now think what 12,000A would do..

  • @JordanWells15 Give you superpowers!!

  • @JordanWells15 Fuck your literal shit up.

  • @dadov Fuck off you randy..

  • @JordanWells15 SUPERPOWERS!

  • @JordanWells15 12kA makes building walks

  • i jus time traveled. i started searching for an answer to time travel about 2 days ago and i m still at the point where i started and have no answer. even though the clock is ticking i m in the same state as i was about 2 days ago. I m the modern world's Einstien.

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  • So if the discoveries that are made disprove the preconceived notions that many "scientists" have about creation, are you willing to admit to them or try to hide them? In the realm of public debate both sides have their preconceived ideas. The challenge is to prove your views, show your evidence and be willing to admit that you don’t know every answer.

  • @mahavite thats what science does, it finds new answers and changes the old ones, if it didnt, it would be no better than the worst evangelical religious mentality. Science HAS to change, as new info it discovered.

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  • @Uzimakisensai science has become its own "religious mentality"; the scientists who support Global Warming having had their emails leaked which proved that they have been manipulating the data for decades have never apologized. Again, if as you say science finds “new answers” then when science proves the “old ones”, they should allow the information to be released, it never will.

  • @mahavite lemmy put it this way.

    a smart man see's the danger coming in ways non informed people cant, he tells them that if they dont change bad things will happen, but the ignorant man doesnt believe him and asks for proof, but the only proof that is there is beyond his current knowing, so to save himself and all the stupid ignorant mislead people like you out there, us scientists have to change things a bit so you can finaly SEE what we do. and thats just the small things.

  • @Uzimakisensai so name calling is the best answer you can give? My limited understanding tells me that the ‘scientific method’ still applies to all things. If it cant be proven through it then it is theory not fact. When did the ‘scientific method’ get removed as a viable way to determine facts, or truth? Maybe, when Pluto no longer was considered a planet!

  • @mahavite ok, so now i know your trolling, no one is that stupid, im no longer going to respond.

  • that's a really nice jacket. He probably got it at Geneva.

  • I do not understand why Professor cox is considered a genius by many in the internet. Is it because he has a Phd in physics or he is a professor. In that case there are many geniuses no one has heard of. He is a brilliant communicator of science to the public but so far thats it. He might turns out to be a genius later on. To be considered a genius in science you have to publish ground breaking. discoveries

  • @segenist Well, you certainly have a valid point. But the use of the word "genius" by these people (including myself) is relative. Cox is a genius compared to ourselves - he is still a part of a very select team working on the Hadron Collider and holds many awards. He has done quite well in the world of science.

    To you the use of the word genius means a truly outstanding individual, like Faraday or Einstein. Cox himself doesn't consider himself amongst these geniuses and shares your view.

  • We all think about how the world was created. At the end of the day, they're nothing but ideas and estimation. LHC indeed a magnificent invention but it's debatable that whatever they're trying to create is not going to be a 100% perfect reenactment of the big bang. There is a good chance you can do something like it but not the same. It's a great invention but useless, like trying to find life on Mars when millions of people on Earth are starving to death.

  • @PhoenixStrategy You just don't get it. The point of searching for things as "Life on Mars" is to find other ways to exist. We only know if one right now; here on Earth. (Of course that in itself is more complex than a YouTube comment.) But, if something (or one) else has figured out a way to live elsewhere in existence than we can see off hand, it will allow us to learn from their ideas and allow our species to better itself. This is just one more example of that thought process.

  • @CynicEidolon You're right, I don't get it. Because we haven't really discovered the true potential or Earth let alone Mars. Hey we all know there are people dying because of lack of basic necessities of life. Don't you think it would be a better use of money to spend it on saving people's lives that we KNOW are in danger instead of blowing millions on trying to find a single living cell on another planet. We're a human family and it is our responsibility to look after another human being.

  • @PhoenixStrategy Yet you don't seem to realise that the more we understand about the universe and the more we do to test it we develop better technology that can help problems we have on earth, like lasers that can burn cancerous brain tumors.

  • @PhoenixStrategy The truth is no one is smart enough to predict the applications of new discoveries. Look at the world around full of mechanical, electrical advances in technology. Look at the advances in medicine and medical physics that enabled us use ultra sound imaging and brain tumour detecting. Yet when you understand the simple principles behind how they work you would know that no one at the time would have imagined its applications. They were all at first a curious based research,

  • @segenist Good call and I agree with you. No one can predict the applications and we can only get there by trial and error. The point I'm trying to make is, there's no need to spend billions on inventions like LHC and trying to recreate the big bang. Let's first solve the problems we face on a real basic level, like providing water to sustain life and then move on to something like this.

  • I want to see more of this guy on the TV informing us. This guy is the future

    He's supernova !

  • @sweetypie000

    he has a show on the history or discovery channel about the universe. check your local channel programs its on fairly often.

  • 20 tons and it moved 1 foot. Uhm...does anyone else worry about the danger of human hubris?

  • Anyone who is religious should suicide and go to their "after life". Thumbs up if you agree.

  • 1:55 OVER 9000 magnets in LHC! That's a great Achievement!

  • lets have a 2013 party that the world didn't end : D

  • humans are awesome

  • @martinmedeski SOME humans are Awesome .

    a SLIGHT correction

  • FAKE  HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • Well all I can say is Brian is god.

  • what a G

  • The LHC is a great achievement of science and engineering. Whether the LHC reveals the Higgs Boson or not it will certainly contribute to our understanding of the universe. I am glad to be alive to see it.

    The comments of some pig ignorant xtians show that even the dull can connect to the internet.

  • you owe it to yourself to read William Henry's examination of LHC at william henry net.  "This is all mighty interesting, especially in light of the timing. At sunrise on December 21, 2012 for the first time in 26,000 years the Sun rises to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way and the plane of the ecliptic. According to the Mayans this date will mark the end of one world and the beginning of another.

  • @33rdPatriot BULLSHIT! simply.

    There has been predicted 100's of end of the worlds!

    The last one was in 1999. By Nostradamus. He also "predicted 9/11" some say. Because he wrote this "In the City of God there will be a great thunder, Two brothers torn apart by Chaos, while the fortress endures, the great leader will succumb"

    "The third big war will begin when the big city is burning"

    Don't believe these end of the world things. They are mostly sentences the gets crazy ppl thinking....

  • @glennemannen check youtube for "William Henry" since you apparently didn't read williamhenry dotnet site (?)

  • @33rdPatriot you should stop reading sites made by nobody, this is just a stupid writer praying easy to convince people like you, so they can sell their books.

    Write me 21st  december 2012 and prove me wrong!

    World end predictions by people that are dead are bullshit!

    All the predictions are very vague! A Mythologist is not the person to listen to!

  • @glennemannen You're putting words in his mouth. I haven't bought anything. Been the capitol, looked at what he said, all there. Been to Nashville, same thing. Blindly ignoring people who do work and research disadvantages self.

  • @glennemannen williamhenry dotnet presents an interetsing article on CERN, its blatant 666 logo and other occult symbolism and similarities. Goes to DC, Nashville and other sites. Paying attention to numbers and measurements and hard science can sure let one miss a bigger picture, no?

  • @33rdPatriot You are so wrong mate. The mayan calander ends! This is a time the mayans would celebrate, cause' its the time of a new cycle. They were gonna make a new calender.

    And the BS about december 21st 2012 earth will be aligned with the sun and the center of the galaxy, and that is supposed to be the reason while the world will end? Well my friend, we are aligned with the sun and the center of the galaxy every december, and we are still alive...

  • to understand more about christmas, where it came from, google +christmas +bibliotecapleyades +mushrooms and read the entry marked Antlantean Conspiracy.

  • his microphone is worse this year

  • bullshit

  • This young man is a true genius, in that he can make idiots like myself feel that they have at least got some grasp of what he is talking about, in such a complex subject.

    I could listen to him all day.

    Thank you!

  • @ozzirt hes 42 not really young

  • @ozzirt he is like 42

  • @callumcurtis1993 And, . . . . what exactly is your point? I am more than 20 years older than he is.

  • @ozzirt i wasnt trying to start an argument its just the way you said young man...

  • @callumcurtis1993 It's all relative,...

  • @ozzirt This is an honest inquiry: Is that your definition of a true genius? Could you elaborate? I'm curious because I've thought this same thing myself once or twice in the past.

  • @theycallmefibb Genius is a subjective judgement. In my opinion he is a genius, because I feel that he has achieved something that very few others could.

  • @ozzirt he is not that young though is he ? :) born 1968 ;). But if we go by Aubrey de Grey's rules hehe ..

  • @makkreol His age is relative,... to me, he is a whippersnapper. A very very smart and lucid whippersnapper.

  • @makkreol I'm sure. didn' t mean anything negative. on the contrary, I find it interesting how people age very differently, so by all means, Brian looks and acts very young in fact.

  • @ozzirt Not to nitpick, and sure age is just a number. and yes he does look very young, but he is 43, that is perhaps young in the grand scheme that is the human lifespan but in my preception 43 isnt "young". however you are right in the in the other aspects of your post :)

  • @jFrancker My comment was a purely personal one, and as such he is certainly young, being young enough to be my son.

  • @ozzirt He's actually 43 right now. Not old, but I bet a lot older then you imagined by just looking at him!

  • @helorm341 How do you know how old i thought he was? Idiot,...

  • @ozzirt hes 45 haha

  • @agropanda Thts why i called him a young man, I'm old enough to be his father,... easily. Haha,....

  • @ozzirt he's like 40 so.. not young...

  • @Martcapt Age is relative, with me being old enough to be his father,... he's definitely young.

  • @ozzirt he's 40

  • @stoner19860502 well, he 's only a youngster then isn't he? He's young enough to be my son.

  • faraday was giving a demo at the royal institution of some of his discoveries in electricity. Someone said "It's all very nice, but of what use is it ?" to which Faraday replied "Of what use is a newborn child ?" (can't remember the exact quote but this is the essence of the tale)

  • Penecillin, electricity - these were once the things of cutting edge scientific experimentation and look what an amazing effect they have had on the world. The LHC has the potential to give us information on the very nature of how and why we are here, the building blocks that make up everything you see around you and how those building blocks work. In the right hands just imagine what an effect that knowledge can have on every aspect of your daily life.

  • LMAO at some of the ignorant pricks commenting on here..

    I mean, really-

    get over it.

    there are far worse things money is being spent on.

    I for one think the LHC is an incredible feat of engineering and will serve to broaden our understanding of the universe, which I'd consider a worthy cause. This is science, people, if you don't like it then you don't like it- but you're certainly not going to stop its advancement.

  • also, a baguette fell in haha :)

  • Brian is my hero! <333

  • if there was a God id phone and tell him to get rid of all the twats and all youtube forums who debate religion and science in the most idiotic manner, its childish on both sides.

  • Whats the point of watching this video if your just going to slam it? Surely the 3 minutes you wasted watching about this amaising feat of human engineering could have been better spent watching some hippy shit about playing god. Leave the science here to the people who actually have a clue What their doing. Surely you wont be complaining when this collider produces a source of energy to power your house? And everyones houses. That seems like a viable use to me.

  • @rhbxyz wow!! lay off the coffee dude!

  • @rhbxyz - It isn't up to people on teh interwebz to explain the reasons for such experiments to you, you lazy retard. It is up to YOU to go to a library and study - and crucually - understand the basic principles of science before coming to the conclusion the LHC is a wasteful project.

    Its eventual applications and beneficial properties are staggeringly broad in scope. I'll leave it up to you to study why. If you can do that then i'll give you 'some' credit.

  • @rhbxyz

    "Demonic device"

    ... dramatic much?

  • @rhbxyz Ha! What a fucking tit!

  • Wow. Spoken like a truly ignorant simpleton with utterly no knowledge of science and education. You are obviously a hopelessly lost religious fundamentalist with the emphasis on 'mentalist'.

    Please, drink the cool aid with the rest of your cult so you can free up some space for the people who's footing is firmly in reality.

    I fucking despise intellectually and morally bankrupt cunts like you.

  • Oh damn, what kind of shit are you dropping. Narrow minded and religious people were constraining the mental development within living memory..

  • Seriously xbox person, what's your problem? Why are you hating on the LHC? It's an incredable thing and something I could only ever dream to work on in my wildest dreams!

  • No way. Everyone knows we will die in 2012.

  • @xbox2702 - I'd have been worried by your comment but a bit of research has shown me you are a 16 year old pleb completely lacking the resources to get anywhere near Switzerland, let alone the LHC. Besides, your mommy wouldn't allow it.

    Your comment actually makes me glad because your sort of comment only comes from uneducated fools lacking the mental capacity to competently structure a sentence, let alone 'take the LHC to court'.

    I laugh in your spotty teenaged face.

  • One beam particle, going all the way around the machine ... Somekind of plasma going on there. Failure in cold gold wires. Magnet propulsion current. The superconducters. 13k atm bar at 271 kelvin. 2.10 min. That is seemingly on starforming level.

  • @delysid111 Not at a hundred particles it isn't.

  • OVER 9000! OMFG WIN!

  • Its sad that Brian is talking about one of the most amazing designs of the human race and people leave argumentative comments about Christmas and Jesus? Can we leave religion out of this and just enjoy the information that's being presented, and start welcoming and respecting each other?

  • @DreadedEddy When did he disrespect Newton? And 'faked moon landing proponents' deserve what they get.

  • @saminthehat It's amusing that so many people who automatically believe and -know- that we landed on the moon, that it happened just as our gov said (and showed) also presume the exact same opacity and entitlement to "truth" and full disclosure. We didn't know then, we still do not know now, and you can (or at least some of us can) bet that we will not know in the future. The "good of humanity", history shows, always starts with those in the know. The rest, let them eat cake!

  • @saminthehat sorry bit late geting back. He disrespecte Newton In the Horizon program "Whats up with Gravity" when it came to calculating the distance of the moone from the earth bit. I agree with you about the faked moon landings - but he is payed to pooh pooh these proponents using something more factually based rather than being "offended"

  • @DreadedEddy Wait, someone around here thinks the moon landing was fake?

  • @AmyK007 too true matenot nuff love in the world

  • @AmyK007 What's the problem? We humans are the most amazing design in the world, and people want to know where we came from. The LHC is magnificient, but nothing compared to our bodies. I enjoy this video and the complexity, but I also enjoy seeing how the findings could explain our origins whether it be supernatural or just natural.. If people want to discuss religion with science, then so be it. Boohoo for you. Besides, science is so beautiful that it's impossible to stay on one topic.

  • @AmyK007 I agree.

  • @AmyK007 Not meant to be argumentative, simply injecting alternative views based on little known info. Thought that was important to science. We can all respect Truth, no?

  • @AmyK007 If the numbers are true. What stops the rest from being true? Can we just tell true to go away. Epictetus once said Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

  • im not showing any hate

    im just telling u christmas is not abou the bith of jesus ..christmas existed long before the birth of jesus. live with it.

    u are celebrating a pagan holiday ..in in fact ur entire religion together with islam and judaism are all based on paganism.

  • It's pretty much just a social event nowadays anyway.

  • @sidewaysfcs0718 And paganism is based on the mystery schools of Babylon... AKA Ancient Egypt. So dont go thinking paganism is the source or everything we believe

  • i know ....but how does that change the fact that x-mas is a pagan holiday that has nothing to do with jesus?

    and the fact that paganism itself is derived from ancient egypt doesnt make it any more true.

  • Concerning the LHC problem. I think that far too much money was spent on something that world currently doesn't need. Far bigger problems apart from Bing Bang are moral issues, lack of humanism,hunger, unequal share of wealth, poverty, education..once we got all this up to some decent level, only then can everyman enjoy the fruits of science and other social activity as well. Science by it self cannot affect social issues, especially spiritual issues.

  • There is no problem with the LHC. Stuff like this is EXACTLY what the world needs.

  • @ThePsychoReturns

    If you were starving, you wouldn't talk like that. LHC is the least thing world needs.

    World starves for justice, not for scientific experiments worth billions of euros that probably won't work.

    People need food, education, healthcare, job...

  • Curiosity-driven science is what drives progress. Problems like widespread hunger cannot be solved just by throwing around money and food.

    If you don't see the insanely enormous benefits that come from understanding the nature of matter, then research it a little more.

  • @ThePsychoReturns

    I'm not talking only about the hunger, but general social status of 90% of people in Europe. These people pay for this experiments..the people are the one who produce the money. Science won't save us from injustice or from hunger. It won't save us from corrupted capitalism, which routes the money to very few people who will eventually use this scientific achievements. It won't save us from moral disaster. Science in general is great, only when it serves, and not served to.

  • Scientific thinking will save us from injustice and hunger, and corrupted capitalism, and moral disaster.

    If everybody was well educated, do you think there would be any problems like the ones we face now?

  • No, not thinking that will save us...but good in every man. There will be no hunger and injustice once people start to think out side them self. Man thirst for good, not the machine.

    What good is any invention, if you can't use it? Better said, what good is it, if it doesn't serve everyone? If it only brings even more poverty. You see, that is exactly what is happening today. I'm not against the science(in fact I study science my self), but I think there are currently higher social priorities.

  • There isn't "good in every man". There are powerful forces at work that want these problems to spread. That's why we need widespread education reform, so the people can learn to tell the bullshit from the truth, make better decisions politically and financially, and then the improvements will begin.

    The LHC isn't bringing more poverty. It's enhancing our knowledge of the Universe. Just building the damn thing was a feat of engineering and technology.

  • You still don't see the issue. It's not about education but social and moral enviroment. Adolf Hitler was educated man and he used technology for destruction...you get the point?

    Today there is no Hitler, but there is liberalism which is by far even worse in long terms. Especially in the moral fields. It's devastation will be even more obvious in times to come.

    Yes, we need education...but mostly we need justice. It is precondition for every social activity like education.

  • And if Hitler's people were properly educated, they would have saw through his lies and elected someone much better.

    In order for justice to be possible, education needs to be drastically improved.

  • Says the person whose handle alludes to a technology that was once one of the most expensive scientific experiments that probably wouldn't have worked.

  • @itsacorporatething

    Are you comparing computer science to this? If so, then you clearly don't know what you are talking about.

  • I'll concede that the development of the first computer systems was not as large of a project as the LHC, but still significant. Either was, please do explain your position.

  • Computer system was being developed for centuries. First job was done in mathemtaics. Then, certain individuals tried to create calculating machines using different approaches, from mechanical devices to electrical. Is it significant...no doubt, by far the most significant invention in human history.

  • That's great and correct, but completely irrelevant to my point.

    All I'm saying is that the development of the electronic/electromechanical computer in the 1930s-1950s was a huge undertaking that is an instance of "Big Science" that is comparable to the effort of constructing the Large Hadron Collidor.

    Your argument that the money spent on the project could be used for better purposes could have been used back in that period to stifle the computer's development.

  • yall are both idiots christians just take the bible too literally and make god seem like a person who has holy fingers..its not gods fault that those things happen..its your fault and their own fault..both atheist and christians are fuckin retarded..

  • @ jackmomoff ur a idiot if god was so real why the fuck does he let all the people in africa go hurngy and let people kill eachother he could snap his "GODLY" finger and stop all that soooo why doesnt he????

  • and god is not some strict parent who spanks us when we do something wrong..it's the perils of being free. i may be wrong, but neither of you are exactly right, either. none of us know anything about anything. we only think we do..nobody's right, if everybody's wrong- Buffalo springfield , For what its worth..good song, go listen to it..high

  • BRAIN COX= LIBErAL KOOK! GOD IS REAL! FUCK SCIENCE!!!

  • I think it's fundamentally wrong that the LHC shutdown for CHRISTmas. Part of the LHC's mission is to explore the big bang and possibly destroy the idea of God I'd hope. It just wasn't good taste nor fitting to shutdown a potentially God ending machine in the name of Christ. I hope it's able to sucessfully start back up again in those very cold temperatures or Christians might claim it's a act of God to stop it. CHRISTmas is NOT a benign holiday; it's propaganda.

  • christmas is not a christian holiday ..

    i should know, im an atheist.

    x-mas is combination of pagan holidays that the christians stole and called their own ...christmas is just a reason to have some fun ...thats all ..it has nothing to do with christ.

  • wait, pagans celebrated the birth of jesus? what the fuck are you talking about it has nothing to do with christ. i dont know, but celebrating the birth of jesus sounds like it has alot to do with christ.

  • wait, pagans celebrated the birth of jesus? what the fuck are you talking about it has nothing to do with christ? i dont know, but celebrating the birth of jesus seems like it has alot to do with christ