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  • Prof. Brian Cox is amazing, so @llRezzonico there's no need to be rude.

  • this guy is a tedious waffler, a celebrity scientist who's more celebrity than scientist

    an embarrassment to Manchester

  • @IlRezzonico well tbh mate he knows his shit so i dont see the problem

  • I don't think that textbooks would have to be thrown away, because the knowledge in them have taken you up to here !!!!!!!!

  • White wine doesn't go with tomato-based sauces. A nice bottle of chianti, instead for the spaghettification!

  • HAHA,...as you go to black hole, take tomato sauce and res vine.. hah :-) ok, good to know, dr. Cox :-) thanx...BUT.. you forgot to mention, that it is not i who am to feast in black hole, it's the black hole feasting on me :-) hahaa

  • He is beautiful inside out

  • @aFemale1 you're right :)

  • @blablaKeks015 I know :-)

  • @aFemale1 I love him. I'm 14!!!

  • @blablaKeks015 I love him.. i will be 34 ha ha ha :-) Am i old ??

  • @aFemale1 no. but I'm very young..and crazy :D

  • I bet he has a painting in his attic.

    

  • the problem with Brian Cox is that his view of a gravity wave is a 3d wave of spacetime in a 2d surface. what he don't realize is that his gravity wave is the particle but with an extra spatial dimension. and that gravitational lensing is the product of light being compressed in time at varying densities caused by time dilation proportional to mass times energy compressed as force. in other words matter act as a capacitor for energy compressed as gravity. energy can bend the fabric of space.

  • Someone so handsome is wasted on R-A-D-I-O!!!

  • how does he smile so consistently while he talks? that smile is always there.

  • @gutzs

    The more you understand about the universe, the more every moment and every thing becomes thrilling. Have you ever felt the tingly goosebump feeling? It's like that, except all the time. Almost orgasmic I'd say, simply to be alive.

  • I have a science degree and love the whole range of sciences from nutrition and psychology; all thew way to physics and cosmology. And I too believe in God and the New Testament. Science and religion - to me at least - aren't as divided, far apart, and different, as many would have it.

    Just to add...I think Brian Cox is an amazing presenter. I could sit (or stand) and listen to him all day long. He has an amazing ability to make complex subject matter easy to understand, and interesting.

  • He's a frickin sociopath, cold dead eyes of a killer.

  • @amyauthbert

    he has a child

  • I don't see why the war between science and a god is so at odds. The greatest question of life "Why are we here?" has similar answers which ever camp you're in. People of religion, "let there be light" is literally a universe flashing into being with a big bang and people of science need to admit that which ever cause of the cause you believe in the notions of eternity or things springing from nothing are also possible, so essentially, faith in science or God is still faith an not so dissimilar

  • Is is possible for gravity to slow down electrons even a tiny fraction of a second?

    Please, anyone, respond...

  • @TheAlexander356 Indeed, but by tiniest fractions of a second we're talking incomprehensibly small! We have no reason (so far) to assume gravity behaves differently on the smallest scales, however, it's effect is generally ignored when dealing with the atomic world

  • he is very ...... smiley :D

  • He makes me want to become a physicist

  • i dont know why people drag religion into science. Islam offers everybody to

    search the universe and explore its mysteries and try to acquire more knowledge

    and it says that it will bring u closer to realizing that there is a higher power

    which is known as Allah in Islam as God .bt it also says that u can discus the possibility of no God if that helps u in research bt eventually u r gonna find a higher power in work. so don`t badmouth religion if u didn`t study one please...

  • @gamerahs and do you think this 'higher power' gives a shit about our species?.....fuck no! Do you think that this gigantic, never ending gulf of light, time, gravity, and space has US in mind?? fuck no! The reason why we're still alive as a species is because we haven't died out yet. There is a MASSIVE difference between being amazed by science and making fascinating discoveries, than 'searching for a higher power'....in which there is no way we'd be able to comprehend, so ultimately no point

  • @Bennyboy138 well we are trying to get extinct aren`t we by killing each other and killing other species.and destroying the earth by many means man . even if religion is an illusion and isn`t real at least it tells us to live like humans not animals. and i didn`t say to search for Higher power i said not to abuse religion in your search for science .i myself am pretty amazed by nature and space and know many theories that donn`t cross public eye.

  • @gamerahs: Christianity says rapture will come and christ will take his people to heaven. So earth is useless really, it is ok to destroy it. To destroy it fast would bring forth the rapture.

    Muslims opress people in the name of their religion, life under their regime is not freedom, therefore not worth living.

    Mormons reject science, therefore would sink mankind back to dark ages.

    Most superstitions demand sacrifice and rituals. And dont have proper instructions for "living like humans."

  • Prof. Brian Cox for Strictly!!! :)

  • He is so fun to watch :D a choice between a night out on the town or a night chatting with him about...everything, rhetorical much :D

    spaghettified, excellent :)

  • he came to our school x

  • I seriously want to know what this guy does to stay so youthful looking in his 40s

  • nobody knows shit

    All theory.

  • Sorry but brian cox is a goof and puts me off the universe.

  • ....some tomato sauce, garlic bread, parmesan, and pinot grigio, cause you'd get spaghettified. haha priceless. We need more scientists like Brian Cox. He is the new Carl Sagan as far as I'm concerned.

  • What kind of drugs this man is on? There is something vapid and empty about him, and downright scary

  • @transfoby Maybe Professor Cox is right in saying most people like to be in an established comfort zone. Perhaps you are one of those people. I only ask why you think he is such a fool for wanting to find answers to questions we all have? What is so terrifying about that? I'm not fighting with you, I'm only trying to figure out your motives becuase honestly I don't understand them.

  • This man is absolutelly mad....there is something terribly unnatural about him...Where the fuck did they find this mouthpiece on drugs

  • @transfoby ... that mouthpiece on drugs is a particle physicist. i can see why people who don't understand the science of physics to think a guy like brian cox is mad, but the thing is the more you understand the science, the more you look at the world differently. it's not a case of him being mad, on drugs, being empty, it's basically him understanding how the universe works more than you do, and the more you know, the more complex it becomes.

  • @lennoxlude thanks for enlightening me...what he knows is only theorethical, nothing else..that is why they build that monstruosity in Switzerland..They don't know anything, let alone themselves. They are just like grown up kids playing with fire

  • @transfoby.. theres many thing us humans don't know and will never know because the universe is too complex for us to ever understand, but that shouldn't stop us from wanting to know how our universe works etc to the best of our ability. it's that searching for the answer that makes us understand as humans more about the universe, and everything within the universe including us humans. the answer of god made this, and god made that is just not sufficent enough to satisfy me and others.

  • @lennoxlude I must be at that stage where I know reallly soon for myself, so really, it doesn't matter wheather they want to fuck the earth up or not. But to place that monstrosity bellow one of the most beautiful countrysides is a natural disaster

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  • @cwestsupporter You call yourself a scientist, and the only comment you have is how hot his wife is?? And you people are deciding our destiny with this gross experiment. The more coments I read here the scarier it gets. 

  • And thats why I love Physics so much

  • Brian Cox is fucking awesome!

  • heil physik

  • Whiskey, Tomatoe Sauce, and some Garlic Bread!

  • Killing a religious nutter is no different to killing a zombie,There both infected!

  • I've written a song dedicated to Professor Brian Cox. You can find it on my channel or search "song for professor brian cox" and find my name Jules Mann. If you're free please check it out and leave a comment.

  • The origin of MASS! that knowledge is worth any price imo.

  • @3rdEyeSpeaks That, and the Origin of Symmetry

  • If the thingy bout colisions above our head is true why the hell didn't they build cern in space?

  • @Albear20 because something put in space is considerably more expensive than its weight in gold. Not to mention I doubt it would work in space.

  • @Albear20 infact it definitly wouldn't work in space because its to hot and very difficult to cool things down in space.

  • @9hello123 Good God, please don't try to sound smart because you think people won't notice. The vaccum of space is incredibly cold. Unless you are within star boundries thereis literally no heat at all. You are a moron.

  • @cwestsupporter space is hotter than how cold a superconductor needs to be and a cooling system big enough to cool something down to become a superconductor would be incredibly heavy and there's no way you could get it into space with even an incredibly high budget.

  • @9hello123 Ok, you really need to stop now. Space is at about negative 2.75 kelvin, which is 270-280 degrees below zero celsius. The coldest supercondutor at CERN is -271celsius. Once again, please stop saying things like they are factual when you really are just full of shit.

  • @cwestsupporter no you really need to stop now. you cant get negative kelvin for one. Space at its coldest is 2.75 kelvin which is -270.25 degrees. Not 270-280

    The top of our atmosphere is also a lot hotter than this. Your full of shit.

  • @cwestsupporter also not only is 2.75 kelvin only -270.25 celsius. You also can't physically get -280 celsius.

  • @9hello123 You have never fucking taken a physics class, this is my career. Are you actually trying to convince me or yourself that you know about physics. You are absolutely full of shit, you don't even know temp measurements. Big difference between knowing the subjuect your commenting on and getting a bit of info from google. You are fucking pathetic.

  • @cwestsupporter not trying to convince anyone I know about physics. Just telling you your wrong. Which you are.

  • @9hello123 I'm wrong about nothing you fool. I did make a typo putting neg in front of kelvin, You absolutely can go to -280 celsius. It used to be we thought all molecules stopped moving at -273.25 celsius until we got into the field of quantum mechanics and found gluons and fermions and hadrons. Just because you read an article in a magazine once you really need to stop acting like an authority on the subject.

  • @cwestsupporter you can stop going on the you dont know what your talking about route because its not advanced knowledge to know that: industrial cooling systems are heavy, spaceflight is expensive, space in the solar system is hotter than space far away from a heat source, and that you can't reach absolute zero (which has nothing to do with what where talking about anyway) your wrong about plenty. space isnt cold enough for superconductors,there is heat every in the universe not just near stars

  • @9hello123 Conversation over, you are fucking pathetic, people in the know will also know you are fucking pathetic and you have wasted to much of my time already. Go back to your plumbing job and piss off. People like you are a waste of fucking cells.

  • @cwestsupporter and people with common sense know your wrong. if your going to insult people for no reason other than your full of yourself could you atleast think of more than one insult by the way?

  • Max Tegmark, a mathematician, is quiite good at getting ideas across, but usually appears as a contributor, as does Lawrence Krauss, who usually pops up in similar shows to Kaku.

    I think Kaku and Sagan are my favourites

  • If you like Cox and Kaku, then look up Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman, who were both excellent communicators and incredibly smart guys. I'd also add David Attenborough if you're into Natural History.

    Richard Dawkins is also a good educator, and isn't as spiky as most would like to think.

    I think Sagan's Cosmos is one of the greatest documentaries, and he is Brian Cox's own favourite.

    Is it just me or do Cox and Kaku both look twenty years younger than they actually are?

  • He's spectacular! I love this guy. Just found him on a ted talk page and have since watched a handful of his lovely vids here. Who else are good physicists to listen to? aside from Michio Kaku

  • steven weinberg (not sure about spelling) simon singh

  • Brian Cox is so awesome..  and needs to make more docos!

  • Brian Cox is great. He sparks the enthusiasm in people all over the world. And people that werent interested before sure is after listening to him. Great stuff. His "TED" appearance is really great awswell.

  • Brian Cox is my new favorite science presenter. I think i love him. He is so not 41. I mean, he is, but I never would have guessed til I looked up his wiki page.

  • He's definitely in my top 3 favorite physicists. Right behind Michio Kaku.

  • its already being riped apart and re writen there is a formula that explains everything

  • This is all very fascinating. The make up of our universe, how things come into existence..atoms, anti-matters, string, gravity, energy...etc. This makes me wonder...How does emotion, curiosity, intelligence, identity, consciousness come into this?? What are the basic building blocks to these? chemicals in our brains? How would we possibly recreate that?

  • such a nice gay!

  • Brian Cox you are my new hero. What a cool advocate for science.

  • He's definately a model for my generation! ^_^

  • Люблю Брайана Кокса-он волшебный)))

  • open your mind to all the possibilities and common sense flood's in, which is something that religious people don't do, religious people hate to discuss the possibility that there might not be no god, maybe due to fear of finding that the truth is not actually the truth they want it to be, while science looks at the possibilities of everything, it not only seeks the possibilities but it goes out to try and prove what they say is true. complete difference in mindsets.

  • Not entirely correct. Scientist try to disprove what they think/say is true. Thats the nature of the scientific method.

  • science goes out to find the truth, and to find the truth you'll find that sometimes you have to disproof certain ideas that don't make sense to what you believe. that's what is great about science, always willing to prove something and even disprove certain ideas regardless if it makes people unhappy. religion you don't get that. if you try to disprove a certain religion, then it's fround upon, it's not accepted, why? because of fear.

  • I agree. Scientist tries to deduce and approximate natures workings through rigorously attacking and reworking its own brainchildren.

  • @lennoxlude We all know very welll that most of the 'scientific experiments' are eventually used for destruction

  • @lennoxlude Yes, we have to look at all possibilities, everything is possible. So god is possible and due to the fact god is a theory, although it has no evidence there's also has no evidence against the idea of a god and doubtless there will never be any evidence. So there is no truth, whether religious people are willing to accept it or not. It's like having a theoretical partical that fills a gap in our knowledge, without evidence people either take it or leave it. That's how science works.

  • @Sciocc0 The concept of god that is prevalent in the majority of religions on earth has a vast amount of evidence against it... I think it basically stems from self centeredness and peoples inability to swallow their pride.

  • @teatime90 Belief in God/being religious is something that comforts people about things they don't know, just because it can be selfish doesn't mean it's wrong. Also, given how much power religion held over people you can't expect that it wouldn't be used by humans...tweaked slightly to gain more power. Take the logical contradiction 'all powerful' for example, it's obviously to sway the public. This doesn't make God any more or less possible.

  • @lennoxlude oh hey a wise man once sayed: religion is made for mankind to get over the problems of beeing human... maybe its not exsactly translated tho im from germany =P

  • @lennoxlude "might not be no god" is a double negative you know... :P

  • @lennoxlude - have you ever heard of the Kalam Cosmological argument? Its a rather strong argument which accords with the big bang for the existence of God. If you're interested / if you want to investigate it you can search on you tube for "WIlliam Lane Craig Big Bang" or something and he'll present the argument. Have a go at refuting it, you'll probably enjoy it!

  • @lennoxlude Turn that around and try discussing God with Cox.

  • @lennoxlude To see a Christian's completely different approach to these issues, take a quick look at this site – Life from God .com, The Firm Foundation Series, "The Step - Evolution" One never ceases to be amazed!

  • I've never seen a professor so happy about physics! He shows that science can be cool. I first saw him on Horizon, and was wary that he seemed to cool and trendy to be a good physicist, but I realised I was wrong very quickly. Great bloke. He doesn't look 40 either...

  • SPAGHETTIFIED :P awesome lol, id love to pick his brain about things

  • I hate the expression, "Picking someone's brain."

  • I really dont care

  • Yes you do. Yes you do.

  • Im afraid i cant tell you on a scale of how much i care, because the scale doesnt exist i care that little

  • It does exist if you care even a little. Duh.

  • So your shit retarded huh. I do not care about you at all. So please SHUT UP

  • you must care about what he says to want him to shut up

  • You are freaking ridiculous, Brian Cox is the best speaker I have seen pertaining to particle physics, so shushyomouth

  • He's brilliant but ... does he have any eyelashes!?

  • @Oxygen97 idiot.

  • @9hello123 Lmao, Troll more please. You don't just randomly call people idiots, You fucking tool

  • @Oxygen97 I didn't randomly call you an idiot. I called you an idiot because you thought the world was going to end.

  • he is James Blunt twin brother

  • What Prof Dawkins is to evolution is what Cox is to physics, explaining with clear language and make it fun and exiting

  • Physics is my religion

  • @IskenderKebabi me too

  • Brian Cox is brilliant. He's inspired me to want to becoming a physicist in addition to others.

    He shows how youth and enthusiasm are within science rather than the negative stereotype of older men grumbling at blackboards. (Apologies to those men, for I highly respect them, I just think they are misunderstood. Richard Feynman for the win!)

  • hes lips and teeths looks kinda TOO fake..doesnt t?

  • Mark my words, " in ten years time Brian Cox will be as big as Bill Gates but not as rich"

  • mmmmm garlic bread... lolz

  • I like Brian, the world needs more well-informed forward-thinking people. He gives me a glimmer of hope for the future of our morbidly over-populated planet...

  • Who red-penned me for likening the HiggsBosonists to a "quasi-religious cult in whose members' minds a range of esoteric and highly speculative ideas about the nature of reality - although they still call them "theories" - have morphed into 100% undeniable FACT."????

    Brian didn't "calculate" the odds of finding the Higgs Boson at 100%. No, in a feeble nod to a true scientific approah, he "calculated" the odds at 95%. But be in NO DOUBT he believes in its existence 100%.

  • @atlastasparename a theory can be a fact. Your thinking of theory as in the slang word not as in the scientific word.

  • Now i get it ; )

    "Yes we will all die in a horrid death cuz of LHC." Ha ha ha, even Brian Cox laughs about those that don`t understand anything and are just afraid like sheeps. People actually wanted to create theories about microwawe owens, that they cauze cancers :D

    Scaredy cats. Don`t forget to buy tomato sauce for 21st september, ha ha ha

  • CERN says is safe cause nature does the same with the moon and it is not a black hole. BUT MILLIONS OF MOONS ARE BECOMING BLACK HOLES. A MOON CONVERTED INTO A BLACK HOLE PRODUCES STABLE BACKGROUND RADIATION EXACTLY AT 2.7K, that swamps the galaxy.Since the big bang is not cosmic SINCE FAR AWAY GALAXIES dont leave shadows on it so it is produded in this galaxy only MOONS made into black holes produce by gravitational lensing 2.7k radiation as cern will do with earth in Nov. FRED HOYLE said it.

  • We now hand you over to CERNtv presented by Prof Brian Cox (BC)

    BC:"Hahahahahhahahahaaaaaa..hu­babubbabuba..Brrrrr. ...Raaaaaaaaaaa...Hi Kids"

    Kids: "Wooooooooooo...go Brian...LEGENNNND...wooooo"

    BC: "Well kids. We fired up our "doomgun" and I didn't see no black hole did you?"

    Kids: "No way! Wooooooo...go Brian"

    BC: "But We had to address this issue cuz if something like did that happen it'd be

    really...really....COOOOOOOOOL­!"

    Kids: Woooooo...yeah...you're soooo hot Brian

  • brian cox is a legend, dont know whether to laugh or cringe at his crack but you gotta love the enthusiasm he shows for the suject!

  • then who created the buddha? lol, chicken n egg situation

  • This guy reminds me of MJ.. MJ scares me..

  • Idiots! everything is made from sugar!

  • There are some things in nature that should be left well alone and this whole Big Bang theory experiment is most definitely one of them, especially since the scientists don't even know what the outcome will be.

    The people behind this experiment should either be in an asylum and the ECHM need a good swift boot in the b*ll*cks for not putting a stop to this experiment.

  • The more I think about it, the more I don't care anymore what the outcome will be, so long as nothing happens before I go to be with the special lady in my life :)

    I do hope though that everything will go ok and that the experiment will be completed safely and without any nasty side effects.

  • Agreed~ but chuck norris should do the kicking..

  • lmao :)

  • In the words of Rock-Star Physicist Prof. Brian Cox "Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world, is a twat"

  • nature messes with us quite a lot - tit for tat

  • spotlitkiss "nature messes with us quite a lot - tit for tat".

    Let me explain something in simple terms so you understand. You are dependent for your EXISTENCE on the CONTINUED EXISTENCE OF THE EARTH. Hope that clarifies things for you!

  • i was making a joke! even so, i don't understand your fears here, conisidering what he was saying about the level of potential risks. and thanks for the heads up on what determines my continued existence - i was clearly unaware

  • You are as much supposed to die by chocking in a teaspoon of water as it is to die from this experiment. Get a grip!

  • COS IS A LEGEND

  • What's the point, you ask? The point is that there are still things that man, with all his technology and perceived wealth, still doesn't understand. We are finally at a stage in our evolution where we can recreate the very essence of the universe. Would you sooner mankind turn their backs on these great voyages of discovery and veg out in front of mindless tv? Yes, I suppose you would. As for the rest of us who still have half a brain cell, let us step out into the stars

  • ankaa0. Whatsay we send you, Brian and his buddies at CERN and the LHC on a one way voyage of discovery into the sun? Just to see what happens eh? I predict you will all reappear on the other side with superhero powers and be able to teleport back to the earth to tell us about your adventures. Are you up for it?

  • Somebody recently showed me a vid of prof Peter Higgs analogically explaining the "Higgs field" in layman's terms. It went something like:

    "Well imagine that you have this...er.sort of..ummm...."

  • Sorry, I should have said::

    If you are concerned about all this you COULD do worse that e-mail your congressman, MP or whatever. It will only take a moment of your time.

    There is still time to stop mad Bri and his buddies at CERN from catastrophically demonstrating that the Higgs Boson hypothesis is a load of tosh and they have wasted years of their lives chasing phantoms.

  • Whoa! I see my statement likening CERN to a religious cult got red-penned into a black hole. Hit the nail a bit too hard on the head did I?

  • Don't worry. Brian Cox isn't the first rock star to have joined a whacko quasi-religious movement. However, he is certainly the first to join one that has managed to persuade governments that they are a bona fide scientific outfit and fund them in building a potential doomsday device.

  • "building a potential doomsday device"

    And you are the one talking about other people being wackos...

  • Stevehtegreatgr wrote: ""building a potential doomsday device"

    And you are the one talking about other people being wackos... "

    Starting with CERN's own assertion that LHC could possibly make black holes. Why couldn't such a body conceivably pose a fatal threat to the earth? I have known of this project for years and up until a couple of weeks ago unquestioningly accepted the claim that any black holes formed would necessarily instantly vaporize when a newspaper article made me think.

  • You see, Stevehtegreatgr, I assumed that all these guys at CERN KNEW what they were doing. However this is NOT the case. To quote CERN's Alvaro de Rujula:

    "Science is what you do when you don't know what you're doing"

  • Black holes are not fatal threats, especially if they can really be created under such low energies (that LHC is dealing with). The Black Holes that you have in mind are results of massive stars that went supernova. Since it is not likely that we have a massive star near CERN it's also impossible to think that we can create such black holes that will possibly "eat" the earth.

    Just because AIDS can kill you doesn't mean that a single RNA strand of HIV is a threat to you...

  • LHC energies = 14^12 eV

    Cosmic rays = 10^21 eV

    Thats 1,400,000,000,000 vs 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

    So nature does this experiment in our atmosphere every day but with almost a Billion times more energy.

    We haven't been gobbled up yet.

  • Then why don't we just send the detector instead of building a massive halo underground...?

  • Because there is to much noise to detect it in nature. Too many variables.

  • @atlastasparename Holy shit, will you please shut the fuck up? I don't really think anyone cares. Please reply so I can have another laugh. Thanks.

  • learn how to spell and use the English language correctly you idiot

  • ( I mean lydiamojzesz not Brian Cox - He is cool!!

  • oh wait im gunna shot my self in the head just to see how it feels! whats the point? were here living on earth in this day and age accept it and enjoy it!

  • lol , i agree so true

  • I'll be dissapointed if i wake up on thursday and the earth still exsists!

  • thanks for the re-assurance,

    i just hope everything goes ok, and nothing happens to the earth or anything or anyone.

  • Let us all hope that nothing goes seriously wrong. I think it was Stephen Hawking who retracted one of this theories about Black holes, and made a complete u-turn on the subject. Let us hope he doesn't go back on his theory about micro Black holes decaying very quickly, and posing no threat to humanity!

  • Sexy Dr. Cox.