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  • @ammachi3, hmm, finding the last piece to a equation that with out fail can answer any question.... Thus allowing absolute foreknowledge of outcomes for every experiment, is totally useless. Being able to eliminate trials of dead end methods, pointless, along with how worthless it will to be able to save all our effort and resources for the stuff we know can work..... Totally agree. You should write a book. You seem to out smart thousands of particle physicists, and even kaku, cox, hawking to n

  • gotta love all the folks who knock this stuff online... all while using a by-product of cern... the internet.

  • pure genius, and to those who think this is a pointless science, get real! no science is pointless!! if you want to have a go at cost etc just look at the military spend of the world...what a waste that is

  • Come on people, get real. This is just a stupid science people’s ego trip. It has nothing to offer us practically that can alleviate the ills of our world. Thus, it is an obviously morally repulsive waste of money, time & energy. Imagine what could have been achieved if those 10,000 scientists, set their collective minds to mitigating climate change, or creating new energy sources/infrastructure? In short, they should have done something that actually mattered.

  • @ammachi3 they all study all those things with that, to know all those wether problems go first to the fundamentals,, what we are really made of,, all this these things around us.. 100 years ago germs is just a theory,, but now we all know thers just morte than just bacteria, we all know the atom.. hard to explain in text.. we need this project.. its vital for their study...

  • @UrgentUrge I was not knocking all of science. I was saying that the LHC is a waste of time, energy & money. Which it is. We could have put the money into creating alternatives energy sources to fossil fuels or better health care.

  • @UrgentUrge This smashing of particles business is just a big kid’s fantasy that has no real significance. So what if they find the Higgs Boson. Wopty f**king doooo….what has that changed? Absolutely nothing…that’s what. There will still be the same amount of pain and suffering in the world, probably more because we choose to spend money on this instead of other things. That is the truth, my friend.

  • Considering the cost of the war in iraq is like a thousand times more expensive, you can go suck it. Knowledge is the tool we use to solve the worlds problems, no matter how obscure it might seem to you.

  • Oh yeah this is just the greatest thing eve...I bet it will spontaneously solve world hunger and poverty when they find the Higgs Boson...and it will magical suck up all the atmospheric CO2 so that we don’t boil our planet...oh oh...I bet it will give us unlimited energy so that we don’t have to worry about peak oil...oh and it surely will solve the economic collapse that is underway. No I hear you say...Why not? Ohhh...that’s right, because this is a pointless waste of time, energy and money.

  • Thumbs up if you had chills from 10:09 - 10:15.

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  • Thank you, Brian, you have rekindled my passion for astronomy and astrophysics which my physics teachers try to crush.

  • One of his heroes is Carl Sagan..........now i know

  • "Large 'Adron Collider"... To Cox it's LAC.. :P

  • Like si viniste por alex

  • Alexelcapo

  • Did and come*

  • My thought is where did all that stufff in the beginning come from.... If nothing existed then then where dud all the matter cone from.... I am try to see the atheist and agnostic point of view on the creation

  • I like that the sheer magnitude and literal awesomeness of the scientific creation story makes him feel "incredibly valuable", not insignificant.

  • He's kinda cute :)

  • A likely story... The ones of us who aren't going to hell know the universe was created in 6 days by god... Can't really explain how, but you know it happened because the bible said it, and you know the bibles right because it's gods word, and you know god exists because the bible says it, and you know the bible's right because god said it...

  • @JimmyTheKiller

    That's the Daytona 500 of logic.

  • Nom Nom Brain Cox

  • He kind of looks like Keanu Reeves

  • @hedes Kinda...

  • I don't understand the joke about Rutherford being from New Zealand...

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  • At the moment Higgs is very antipathetic to me.

  • @happyhanieh he said "as one of my great hero's, Carl Sagen said, these are the things, and actually not only these, but I was looking around, these are the things, like Saturn 5 rockets and Sputnik and DNA and literature and science, these are the things that hydrogen atoms do when given 13.7 billion years"

  • @akaAlexthekid THAAAAANK YOUU :' )

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  • i had the snowflakes running at 3:23 - mind was sufficiently blown

  • @sandustanBrasov SPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSP­AMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAMSPAM­SPAM

  • • SandustanBrasov

    The materials seem to be complicated and irregular at the sight with the free eye. But at microscope they it show simple and orderly. All the material shapes: animal. vegetal and mineral are made from atoms and these only from three constituents: protons, neutrons and electrons. The photon of light we see it and the photon of heat we feel it, but the ethereal particles are more small, of a few thousands time; we see not them now, but the our spirits see them.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    If in 1905 Einstein excludes the ETHER from physics, viz excludes the intergalactic matter, then the his disciples arrive with the relativity theory at Big-Bang, at black holes, holes of worm, at singularity and today at travel in time. Thus the great explosion of George Gamov and his fellows R.A.Ipher and R.C.Hermann, become cosmological standardized theory which is one great bluff!

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Today in front of our eyes and of the observation apparatuses it succedes all evolution phases of the celestial bodies, stars and galaxies. An evidence that the Universe doesn't seems to have an explosive beginning and doesn't seems to have ever an end in the his entirely. The facts demonstrates that in Universe the cyclical creation has place continuously in certain parts, and can has not place total creation in the same time in all the mass of the Universe.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    As early as the time of Michael Faraday at scientific problems in contradiction, academical circles decided victory the some or another.In this optics of domination of certain conceptions: philosophical, theological and of other principles, in science had penetrated mistaken and fallacious theories, and the impossibility of immediate verification, to leaded at the creation others abstractings which had blocked the road of the scientific innovation with practical applications.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Today, on measure that the theory advances from classic mechanics to the quantum mechanics the particle and the wave are gradual dematerialize. The modern physics is blocked by enunciation of some laws and mistaken principles as: relativity theory, Hubble's law, postulation that the atom can't emit and absorb radiations continously, admitting the postulate what claims the photons without mass a.s.o. These guide- us at supernatural and at the technical and technological blocage

  • • SandustanBrasov

    Nikola Tesla argued that:" I hold that the space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can has not properties. Of properties it can speak only when it work with the matter which fill up the space. The empty space it can not curve because- something- can not action about -nothing". This relativity proceed from a philosophical direction, on which A.Einstein produce her when he was found in a state of technical and religious confusion.

  • • SandustanBrasov

    A.Einstein through the his relativity to REVERSED the reality of the our terresterial world. He remove the ETHER from physics and give materiality the space and the time. But the SPACE limit the place where it can unfolding material actions and the TIME mark the period of unfolding to some material actions. The space and the time are only ABSTRACT notions, absolute and colateral which show where and when it unfolding certain material actions.

  • Science. It works, bitches.

  • @very religious people: they see me discoverin'... they hatin

  • So smart

  • Brian Cox please stop with the plastic surgeries!

  • He always smileys :o

  • Wouldn't it be marvellous if this video could be shown once a year in all churches, chapels or mosques to replace the standard religious message. It really puts in perspective the bronze age folk tales that underpin the great world religions.

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  • I think the fact that he's gorgeous might just be a coincidence - what grips me when Brian Cox talks that isn't necessarily there with others is his enthusiasm and how clearly you can see how much he loves it all. It's adorable and it's really very inspiring.

  • @FunkyMonkeyJunkie302 Brian is not 'that' gorgeous! OK so my 15 yo female cousin thinks he's gorgeous, but I'm male and 37 and i don't find him the least bit gorgeous.... I think he needs a haircut!

    So perhaps Brian's gorgeousness is subjective, and limited to teenage girls ???

  • @grinblurnar Surely, all gorgeousness is subjective (for the record, I know adults who quite fancy him... ha ha)? But people tend to bang on about the way he looks a bit, particularly in comments sections, but also in articles about his work. I bet there will be as many comments on this video about his floppy hair and lovely eyes as there will be about the scientific content. My point was that I find his evident passion for it all far more gripping than the way he looks, charming though he is

  • it wasn't discovered, they found evidence in a sigma 2 area. they need at least sigma 5 evidence to claim the higgs exists.

  • The Higgs particles was just discovered at the Large Hadron Collider! HURRAY FOR SCIENCE! The theory is now complete!

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  • 100 billion suns......for starters...awesome...

  • I sincerely would. Not even joking, not even desperate.

  • Excellent!

    Though I think 63 people must have spent 16 minutes waiting for the bit about the talking snake in the magic garden.

  • Excellent !!

  • @FunitzoJunior Are you a woman then?

  • I watch Brain Cox every day before revising for a level physics

  • @Flextaa u cuda told me that personally ... -.-'

  • @Hardrock4 ... dude how do you keep finding out my comments

  • @juki0h

    You need to study harder to spell school correctly

  • i understood none of that

  • He did make a documentary like cosmos, actually he made two for the BBC, wonders of the solar system & wonders of the universe. They are on you tube.

  • @BFitz1976 Fun fact: Neil deGrasse Tyson is currently making a direct sequel series to Cosmos

  • I just want him to keep talking forever.

  • @FunitzoJunior i dont, i just want a beer with him.

  • He should make a documentary like Cosmos

    Please ...

  • 0:37

    NOPE Neutrino!

  • He look like artist.

  • damn, i need to study harder in shcool if i ever want to do something like this

  • @juki0h No. Just generate a script. Rehearse it many times. Then start doing free shows. Then start charging for your shows. Don't answer questions from the audience. He is an entertainer.

  • @Jaboie So what, man? Science needs people like him. It needs meticulous career academics but it also needs David Attenboroughs,s, Stephen J. Goulds and Brian Coxes who convince the masses - and by extension, the legislators - that this shit is actually interesting and important. We might not have a LHD if it weren't for people like him.

  • @2006Pace2006 Yes I agree, but I was responding to juki0h who stated that he would have to study to do something like this, which I was informing him was a false idea. No study would be required, only rehearsing your script, much like a comedian. I like listening to this information too. I guess out of context you didn't understand what I was typing. When a comment has @(name) before it, find that comment to get a fuller understanding of the conversation. Have a great day.

  • @Jaboie then why aren't you doing it yourself? you sound like an ass.

  • @svrussell I didn't mean to offend you. I had no idea that you personally identified yourself with this guy and that other peoples opinions have such power over you. If I make any future comments just assume that they are for everyone except you. Have a good day.

  • @Jaboie why do you assume i'm offended or personally invested because i asked a simple question (which you didn't answer, by the way) and voiced an opinion about your comment? your smarmy response tells me my instinct wasn't off the mark.

  • I don't really like the math "magic" they are doing. They basically make mathematical models describing particles and those models at this moment are viable and appear to work but it does not mean that those particles exist, there may be another more convoluted model that is equivalent in it's predictions to the one they use now, would that mean that the particles it describes there really exist? It's all mathematical shenanigans, useful but shouldn't be taken as complete fact.

  • @neurel111 Re-writing the basic principles of physics, or even nature itself, is 'shenanigans' to you?

  • @idkagoodusernameyet

    How can you rewrite physics? We are merely discovering what has been there since this universe began. Think of it this way if you must, relativity is in direct conflict with quantum mechanics for when they both encroach on each others' domains they both fail which implies they are both wrong or at the very least restricted to their respective domains (still wrong). However in their respective domains they both work exceedingly well. That is what i meant by shenanigans.

  • 43°? I thought he was 20

  • I love CERN and i love science  i think that the Hadron Collider is so amazing!!!!

  • He's always so smiley :D Science is amazing.

  • Cox is not a fraud. WTF? He's doing what he loves and is making money? People who don't like him are just like people who don't like musicians. It's not that the musicians can't sing. they just hate them because they are famous. PESSIMISTS

  • I came here to only watch the parts featured in symphony of science but then ended up watching the entire video. This is really interesting...

  • Amazing stuff - I often wish I was involved a lot more with physics. I don't know what it was but the math, but it just never clicked with me like it did for others, literature and writing has always been my thing. As hard as I would try, equations and crazy symbols always just had the effect of confusing the fuck out of me.

  • and who creates those particles? thats the question

  • @syafiqzailan

    They where created by fluctuations of the 11th dimension.  (the big bang) I surely hope this is not another ill attempt to bring "God" into the scientific dialogue. And if it is, I would ask you to please refrain from asking questions that you have yet to considerer about that pseudo-phylosophy you are trying to push. Merely the question of who created God.

  • @MamonMuch basically still a theory... it could be anything else. how u could be so sure?

  • @MrRyancocks So why are you on a video of him then.....Are you really trying to compare Chris Tarrant and PROF Brian Cox. Come on get real. Do you know what he has done in his career? Also you will notice its everyone else mentioning D-Rem and not him. Does he mention it in this film???? I think someone is slightly jealous.....

  • @MrRyancocks I smell jealousy.

  • Didn't mention the part where he spilled yogurt on it, though.

  • @kiradoyouknow made me lawl :D

  • Physics, its like, fookin brilliant, and that

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  • I have the biggest mancrush on him...

  • If my physics teacher looked like Brian Cox I wouldn't be failing his class.

  • geniusssss

  • uncertainty is ok, its what we were when we were young

  • i wish i could have gone to private school

  • @boogiebuddy01 its not all its cracked up to be

  • @DemonicGhostwithin really, i always thought i would have done really well there and been able to focus more, public schools especially high school was very hard for me

  • @boogiebuddy01 I guess it depends on what school you go too but when I went there, my grades dropped and I did some stuff I won't share with the internet

  • I want that T-shirt.

  • 4:25 the guy looking at his thumbnail lol

  • Brian Cox, In my opinion is the universes replacement for Carl Sagan, I cant wait to see where he is in 20 years. Good Luck Good sir.

  • @NightmareSolider and that, my friend, is SO very much the thing, spot on! and it's not so much as we have a new Carl Sagan, it's a relay-race continuity at the same pationate pace. I love it. Wonderfull times. cheers from Poland.

  • These TED talks should really be shown primetime on television.

  • Brian Cox = Baller status. That guy is so young and so intelligent and has so much promise.  If i were a betting man (and i am) I would bet that this guy changes the world big time!

  • @DaBluedude100 ahahah, baller status: that made my day! :D

  • Also can someone give me that huge equation he showed. I wanna know why dirt is brown.

  • So did they discover those heggs particles?

  • @SackFulloApplez1993 Either outcome is desirable. Discovery or lack of discovery

  • @Mandragara So they didn't find anything. =(

  • @SackFulloApplez1993 They're still looking! Once they can say with a high degree of certainty that the particle exists or doesn't exist, they can then incorporate that into Theory & gain a better understanding of the universe.

  • What is most amazing is how the research here is cutting the edge of our understanding of the Universe. That Einstein was wrogn that particles CAN travel faster than light is just amazing!

  • @E7018LowHydrogen can and do... And actually its been generally believed for many years his research was flawed, It has only recently received the media attention to bring it to public light.

  • "The universe is made of

    Twelve particles of matter

    Four forces of nature

    That's a wonderful and significant story"

  • @Yade10245 ..."and H"

  • @Yade10245 I love that song...........;)

  • outstanding video,,,Brian Cox is amazing scientist , i really enjoy listening to him.

    if you haven't red his book'' Wonders of the Universe'' please do .

  • super interesting

  • can anyone tell me where I can find that equation? please.

  • @wildstarlights2 search for "standard model equation" on google images

  • He always reminds me of Cillian Murphy.

  • Humans are awesome

  • He looks like Cher.

  • he's an amazing public speaker, I thoroughly enjoyed this talk!

  • the beauty about science? people will never stop asking the question that is why, this is why science will over come religion because it gives answers rather than orders in which to obey without question, whether god is real or not science will prove the answer rather than a 2000 year old book called the bible.

  • This talk is nice and all, but how soon can we expect you to build some Stargates?

  • @ApocDevTeam Fuckin rights!

  • That calculation at 7:00 Is that like.. the calculation for the "Theory of Everything" ?

  • Love is the message of jesus,but science is all around us.

  • @kreatorRage i disagree i mean truly religion i believe in religion in and what i'm hearing here, my science teacher ( who is also my religion teacher) doesn't mix them but i still believe in both, you also have to let people believe what the want to believe and i respect your opinion but i want to get mine out there too. science doesn't mean religion is wrong and religion doesn't mean science is wrong only to certain people is that true but not to me.

  • @roylivingston your so close to being right... except for the bit where science proves religion wrong in so many places.

  • Cox is the man.

  • If you're really a science nerd like I am, belief is out of the question. Belief itself is ludicrously preposterous if you know your way around the universe, you're embracing ignorance and arrogance by following a cult which believes the earth is 4000 years old.

    You really have got to be kidding me, don't let yourself be diluted by Iron Age fairytales.