Why Professor Brian Cox Loves Physics
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Uploaded by DestinationDub on Apr 30, 2010
Taken from BBC's Wonders of the Solar System, Professor Brian Cox explains a beautifully simple experiment to calculate the amount of energy radiated by the sun using a bucket of water, a thermometer, an umbrella and some maths we all learned as children.
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For such a clever guy and he's so humble. Cox is great I don't know why hes getting such slack on youtube
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@Tnias13 Because oil is the concentrated product of vegetation storing solar energy, being compressed for millions of years.
A kilowatt sounds like a lot of energy for a square meter until you realize how much energy is released by burning gasoline. My car generates up to 200 times that much power from a small steam of gasoline coming out of six tiny nozzles.
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...and that's not even accurate, because it doesn't take atmospheric absorption into account, or reflection from the tin, or other kinds of radiation that doesn't heat water, like neutrinos...but yeah.
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@TrampVamp totally agree!
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It's funny because most people don't think you can waste sunlight.
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and Brian May is an astrophysicist!
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Finding it difficult to deal with how adorable I find this man.
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He loves physics, so do I. We're made for each other Brian.
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The advancement of technology is the limiting factor.... obviously. You can't see before you have eyes, you can't run before you have legs.
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Brian May and Brian Cox, rock and sicence and mmmmmmmmmm
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@k1r5ty98 what does he say in 2:56 ? I can't make it out.
SuperBlistering 3 months ago
@SuperBlistering "And that's why I love physics"
DestinationDub 2 months ago
Makes you wonder why we've bothered with oil to begin with......
Tnias13 1 year ago 13
@Tnias13 Indeed - it's bonkers!!
DestinationDub 1 year ago 2