DR BRIAN COX - EXPLAINING GRAVITY SPACE TIME AND WAVES

DR BRIAN COX - EXPLAINING GRAVITY SPACE TIME AND WAVES [In Tucson, Arizona, US]

Professor Dr Brian Cox (Born, 3 March 1968, Oldham, Lancs) [University of Manchester, Professor of Particle Physics]. He is a Royal Society University Research Fellow based in the Particle Physics group at the University of Manchester, where he holds a chair in Particle Physics. He works on the ATLAS experiment at CERN in Geneva.
His main research interest is the FP420 R&D project, aimed at upgrading ATLAS and CMS with forward proton detectors 420m away from the interaction points. In the past, he worked at the H1 experiment at DESY in Hamburg, and the D0 experiment at the Tevatron at Fermilab, Chicago.

He defends the expenditure & research spent on the Large Hadron Collider ("LHC") located at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

Dr Brian Cox previously played keyboards in the boy band D:ream in 1997: "Things can only get better..."

He is now married to TV presenter Gia MILINOVICH - done in secret. [She runs a blog where threads include a discussion of whether her husband is gay].

COX now divides his time between Oldham and London, where his wife lives with 11-year-old Moki, her son from a previous marriage.

The couple's first date was on 11 September 2001, and they married four years ago in her mother's front room in Duluth, Minnesota. He only told his own parents when he got back. 'I'm a northern man. I don't like any fuss,' he explains. Milinovich's most recent blog post says touchingly: 'There have been many times over the years when I've been extremely proud of my lovely husband. His appearance on Newsnight is right at the bloody top of the list.'

When in Geneva, he uses computer 'iChat' to keep in touch with Gia and Moki before going for dinner. A recent newspaper article, in which he described rambling back to his room having usually drunk about a bottle of Châteauneuf du Pape, annoyed his colleagues who said it implied that Cern was a tax-funded drinking den. Cox admits that he hates waking up in the morning, staying in bed until 9am if he can. But he is hardly unfit, running half-marathons and playing football with university colleagues; he used to have a season ticket at Oldham Athletic. These days his taste in music is jazz and singers such as Billie Holiday.

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• BRIAN
• COX
• EXPLAINING
• GRAVITY
• SPACE
• TIME
• AND
• WAVES

[livebenrules2]

why is the interviewer so dam rude?

[IronHarper]

"I can't see that as a wave"

"Tough."

YES BRIAN!

[AussieEvonne]

There's no shame at all in saying that you don't understand. I didn't understand it either. I'm not generally a moron, but I just sometimes don't get this stuff. I think the interviewer is the same. It's not a given that everyone but the very stupid will understand what Dr Cox is saying.

[TomPlatt1994]

"Why is that not obvious?"

WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID INTERVIEWER?!

[Did007z]

space is not a unit

[Did007z]

The interviewer is damn right... really think about...

[longshot14]

I think the interviewer is his executive producer, and he is just trying to make sure what he says on camera will make some sense to the simple mind folk.

[AtomosDemocritus]

@StopSpamming1 i think he is saying that a gravitational wave could be defined as the flow of energy in the form of dilation in flow of time. for example, sound is a compression wave that does not transport the air, it moves at the rate defined by the mediums ability to forward energy, such as density or permeability of space

[jweezee100]

such a troll :P :P

[nextblain]

wise people are always patient, u see cox, u see dawkins, always patient... no i m not saying interviewer is bad or nything, i m juss sayin :)

[leet512]

lol i must say, a number of you lot are taking a rather combative stance on this... you see this as a cage match between brian and the interviewer do you? LOL

its not like he was asking him about mere water waves... nobody has seen a spacetime ripple move in front them you know...

nor do millions realize that waves are transverse undulations... and they cant really be blamed for that, because waves provide a strong illusion of horizontal translation when they push boats and surfboards along