Pr. Brian Cox - A Night with the Stars [BBC, Full Lecture]

HD: http://youtu.be/Z4VUAjVp0Jg

For one night only, Professor Brian Cox goes unplugged in a specially recorded programme from the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In his own inimitable style, Brian takes an audience of famous faces, scientists and members of the public on a journey through some of the most challenging concepts in physics.

With the help of Jim Al-Khalili, Jonathan Ross, Simon Pegg, Sarah Millican and James May, Brian shows how diamonds - the hardest material in nature - are made up of nothingness; how things can be in an infinite number of places at once; why everything we see or touch in the universe exists; and how a diamond in the heart of London is in communication with the largest diamond in the cosmos.

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[HerpDerpBeehive]

I thought you couldn't take photographs of atoms?

[iasedu]

@HerpDerpBeehive You can't, because photo = light. But with electrons, you can. (Electron microscopy)

[Castleinthesky007]

Anyone know who the brunette in the red dress (front row) is? I'd like to do a single slit experiment with her.

[iasedu]

@Castleinthesky007 That's cheesy.

[simabah]

Is this the "Theory of Everything"?

[iasedu]

@simabah If you want a "Theory of Everything", you'd need one picture that describes the small world, the large world and the extremely small and the extremely large - and their behaviour. You also need all the forces acting in these worlds. We've come very far now, we just can't explain the extremely small world, and we can't make gravity into the picture with the rest.

[AchwaqKhalid]

@Dannnytrules Quantum Mechanics is just a subset of quantum theory, QT contains also Quantum field theories such as QED (Quantum electrodynamics), QCD (Quntum chromodynamics) and the electroweak interaction which unifies the electromagnetism and the weak interaction in a single theory, you can add to that quantum gravity theories that are trying to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity in a single theory which are string theory then loop quantum gravity.

[iasedu]

@Deeraise It's only strange and unsettling if you decide to interpret it in some special way to begin with. The only mechanism of observation we have is visible light, photons. So if you want to observe the electrons as they pass the slits, you'll have to "bombard" them with photons. In so doing, you are providing the electron with another particle that in can interfere with instead. Without photons, it has to interfere with itself (which give the strange pattern).

[thestalkinghead]

probability maths, isnt real maths, it doesnt prove anything

[TheFlinglish]

Brian Cox and the BBC productions have singlehandedly created in the uk and the world a new love and appreciation for science and its many, many wonders to a vast, appreciative audience of people who may not have ever considered science or known little about it prior to these programs. Bravo!

[TheFlinglish]

@simabah Yes simabah. Yes it is.

[QBAlchemist]

at the very start of the video i had a little chuckle;

how mathematicians and scientists humour can come from someone scientificaly inept making a simple but law breaking mistake on a seemingly logical equation.

i dont know why, since im not very smart myself, but i always find logical humour to be the funniest :D

[looktonature]

In the first 5 mins, Deepak Chopra is debunked, once and for all! Good stuff!

[evenme59]

The path of least resistance is ...all there is.