Shame rhe adds didnt 🙄

He’s a very interesting man Mr Cox so worth listening to.

This. It seems to be the modern style of many interviewers to interrupt the guest directly after mildly interesting oneliner has been said. This is refreshing.

You think these divs interviewing him have anythhing worthwhile to say??

@@kevw333I’m not sure you understand cost and afford something for free

Its too bad he doesn't practice what he preaches.

Humility is the first step toward learning. You can't learn until you are humble enough to realise that there is something for you to learn. - Robert T. Kyosaki

This is a different definition of empathy. I like it.

This is bullshit and goes against every instinct.

Yes, they were hypnotized by intelligence!

He probably has half a dozen heads on his Mantlepiece at home from people that disagreed with him . haahahahah

Check out Brian Greene WOW!!!!

He just a great tosser of incredible lies !

I see what you did there...

Dare to D:Ream

You think these divs interviewing him have anythhing worthwhile to say??

He always looks amazed

What one fool can understand, another can. Richard P. Feynman

I spend a lot of my time writing technical documentation. I often ask people completely unfamiliar with the technology to review my documentation. If they can’t understand it, I’ve failed.

The more you understand a subject, the more you're able to simplify it.

​@@pepelemoko01And Confucius said, "A wise man can recognise a fool because he was once a fool. However, a fool cannot recognise a wise man because has never been wise."

In Ancient Rome, bathers at the Roman baths would pay to cover themselves (or even eat) the discarded oils that had been used for massaging the celebrities. That there are stupid people in the world is not surprising or newsworthy.

Didn’t they used to have public information films to tell people not to; play on train tracks, climb electrical pylons and what to do if you drink bleach?

No one was legit eating detergent. The exaggeration of that one story haunts your mind, man. That has not been a legitimate problem. How did Oppenheimer the movie get made? Nolan’s movies have made 6 billion worldwide, that’s how. Hahaha

Not really it just shows you consume too much media and have a skewed view of reality.

​@kickedinthecalfbyacow7549 yes, PSAs targeted at children. Now we have to tell the Magas. So, no change then.

Myself and my 2 sons attended a lecture he gave in Perth a few years ago and it was one of the most illuminating 2 hours we have ever spent.

Best thing i could compliment the man on is that he's one of those rare people who you could just listen to for hours on end in complete silence. He's so good at bringing the fascination he has for physics to us @@johnstirling6597

Exactly! He's not a sensationalist, he knows the limits of his knowledge and isn't affrid to say! Thats how all scientists should be!

Tip for life: The more you know, the more you know that you don't know anything.

@@OriginalPuro so true. I know stuff, and I know stuff-all! 🤣

I can't

Yep, not a 'like, like...' anywhere. Dear Americans out there please take a lesson? KP ;0)

He's a f lying establishment shill who promotes the "moon landing". Wth is wrong with you⁉️

I love this comment. You can see the examples and inspiration than Carl Sagan and Richard Feynman have offered, as forces of good for humanity, directly in the work of Brian Cox and Tyson De Grasse

Thank you Melanie for you comment. I very much agree! I can't help but listen when Brian starts speaking because his curiosity is so magnetic!

💯 I started watching the 'remake' of Cosmos and was put off by the attitude of the host and the slick CGI effects. The sense of wonder was not present as it had been in the original series. The sense of someone who is full of themselves, in the new series, was abundantly clear.

Way better than Tyson who's just a jester.

Tyson should never have got that role, he didn't deserve it.. He is arrogant and thinks he is better than everyone..

Smart is knowing the answers, but wise is knowing when you don't. Few achieve the latter.

@@andrewthomas695 That's basically what I was taught early on. Knowledge is knowing something, intelligence is knowing how to use it and wisdom is knowing when not to.

Those folks who say 'I know All' Actually tend to know fu

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Wot? So "I believe" is as convincing as "I know"? That's not even rational. If that's not what you mean by "Belief is a certainty", what do you mean?

@@dionlindsay2^ Looks like someone hasn’t understood the comment.

@@feliscorax ​ Pretty sure George understood it perfectly well 🙂. Not sure I did, by the look of it. Did you?

@@dionlindsay2 What I think they’re really trying to say is that those who assert the superiority of belief, which is a claim to certainly know a revealed truth in which all faith must be invested, over the knowledge that our knowledge is necessarily limited and subject to constant revision (as science and philosophy do), are actually limiting human progress. After all, a claim founded on the belief that something is true - especially those which assert the absoluteness of that revealed “wisdom” - is also likely to prohibit any and all progress as a threat to its own certainties. The quote at the beginning of their comment, which they have cited in praise (I think), illustrates that it is that uniquely curious disposition of mind that has allowed humanity to make it as far as we have - for better and worse. Hence, the last sentence seems to be saying that *not* knowing, yet being willing to be wrong in the quest of finding out, is more necessary than continuing to place faith in systems of belief simply for their own sake.

@@feliscorax I'm to a large degree at the mercy of an epistemology course I took at University about 45 years ago, where knowledge was defined as justified true belief. The kind of belief you're writing about was called faith and it was distinguished from belief as a constituent of knowledge. So I do treat belief as having less credibility than knowledge. Of course there's wisdom to be fitted into the picture somewhere too.

Its not rare, this is how most scientist think

rare? what?

​@n0body550 I don't see a lot of scientists anywhere these days or critical thinking being taught in schools, so I would say yes, very rare.

Why don't you get married!

Indeed. Additionally, the BBC has regularily broadcast the Christmas lectures from the Royal Institution, designed to showcase and demonstrate science to younger people, often fronted by well known scientists. They have always been done with a great sense of fun and stimulating content to encourage interest and enthusiasm from their younger audiences. The 2023 lectures explore the science behind Artificial Intelligence.

That is something I love about British programs they tend to let the guests (the ones people want to see and hear) actually speak.

Taken from us too soon. He only got to see the rough cut of "Contact" before he died.

IMHO Brian Cox is also up there with the great science communicators, he manages to create a sense of wonder when looking at nature, very similar to what Sagan did, I deeply dislike Tyson, he comes off as arrogant and entitled, like most contemporary americans.

James Burke was an amazing communicator and if you were not from Britain in 60's 70's 80's you may not know him. He would have given Sagan a run for his money.

I like NDT.

NdGT has great rethoric skills and ample knowledge about a lot of things besides strictly science (which makes him a great entertainer in general) but I also feel sometimes he is a bit too full of himself. It's great to have him, don't get me worng, even if he has this tendency to monopolize debates. Brian Cox is a rock star in my books, both literally and figuratively, because not only he knows a lot of stuff but he also seems eager to learn something form the others, even if that other is you. And his british accent is neat xD

All women love Cox

@@jpgrygus 📠

Shame he's a woke 🤡

Not just the media, all walks and areas of life, the most damaging of which is indeed the media, politicians and corporate leaders.

How they snuck around that elephant in the room without waking it, was pretty impressive.

He is a role model, no doubt

He’s a WEF puppet

@@SLSAMG And you know that how?

@@LetsKeepThePeace google is your friend. He literally has a bio on their website 🤣

So? Who cares if he has a short bio on their site? What does that have to do with him as a scientist and a science communicator? Absolutely nothing.

Well it's the whole, "if you truly understand a concept you could explain it simply" that holds true. Self important people make it a point that they know more than you do. But when you are humble and understand a topic very well, you want to share and you can explain it in a way anyone can understand.

Robert Sapolsky makes biology/primateology so easy to digest and fun, he's a superb educator.

I see somewhat of a trend developing here; and that is "most people are too stupid to understand us geniuses". WHAT POPPYCOCK! Big Bang? Here are some questions for you geniuses; What Big Bang, Where is the BIG BANG? Time, what time? What is time, has time always existed, was it created or has it existed all along? What is "dark matter/dark energy', what is always here or did it just pop into being? Tell me this when you so called geniuses figure this out and have answers instead of unproved theorems give me a call.

Neil Degrass Tyson is also a worthy successor to Carl Sagan as an astrophysicist and a brilliant communicator.

the film is not very good, let's be real here. The acting is good, the editing. direction are terrible.

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@ForbiddenPlanetB Looking at how Oppenheimer was portrayed in the 23 episode Manhattan, he apperaed to be a bit of an arsehole.Regardless ; he was treated like one by the un American activity trial.This was dwelt on well in Oppenheimer

The film is an Ameri9can film about American films. No mention of British science or the brilliant Australian physicist, Mark Oliphant. Oliphant's team at Birmingham University showed that the mass of U238 required to make a bomb was about 28 tons using reflectors. They showed that using U235 the amount was approximately 5kg. This information was put in the MAUD report which was sent to the USA with the Tizard mission. The Tizzard mission also took with them the details of the incredible cavity microton which was small and produced short wavelength high energy radar signals. This was described as the most valuable product to ever cross American shores. It was developed by Oliphant's team. TheUSa ignored the MAUD committee's findings, so Oliphant went to the USA ostensibly to check on the cavity microton, but reality to find out about the MAUD report. Oliphant reported: "The minutes and reports had been sent to Lyman Briggs, who was the Director of the Uranium Committee, and we were puzzled to receive virtually no comment. I called on Briggs in Washington, only to find out that this inarticulate and unimpressive man had put the reports in his safe and had not shown them to members of his committee. I was amazed and distressed." It was Oliphant who pushed the American programme into action. Oliphant met with the S-1 Section. Samuel K. Allison was a new committee member, an experimental physicist and a protégé of Compton at the University of Chicago. Oliphant "came to a meeting", Allison recalled, "and said 'bomb' in no uncertain terms. He told us we must concentrate every effort on the bomb and said we had no right to work on power plants or anything but the bomb. The bomb would cost 25 million dollars, he said, and Britain did not have the money or the manpower, so it was up to us." Oliphant then visited his friend Ernest Lawrence, an American Nobel Prize winner, to explain the urgency. Lawrence contacted Compton and James B. Conant, who received a copy of the final MAUD Report from Thomson on 3 October 1941. Harold Urey, also a Nobel Prize winner, and George B. Pegram were sent to the UK to obtain more information. In January 1942, the OSRD was empowered to engage in large engineering projects in addition to research. Without the help of Oliphant the Manhattan Project would have started many months behind. Instead they were able to begin thinking about how to create a bomb, not whether it was possible. One would have thought that the film would have said something about this.

You think these divs interviewing him have anythhing worthwhile to say??

about as cool as cancer... (unt

"...political systems favor psychopaths" So does big business!

No he aren’t new Carl Sagan, that’s an insult to a great man. Brian Cox is next gen that showing world what men like Carl done which is to educate people on cosmos etc.

​@@Jeffro5564 To say it is an insult to compare him to a modern Carl Sagan (not the same as) is rather extreme ,but I find Neil deGrasse Tyson awful; even though he was a student of Carl Sagan, I find him insufferable. Brian Cox is a great informer.

No he aren't? @@Jeffro5564

Another crip tipper I presome? @@funjuror

I have no idea what that means :)@@davidfiler7439

And the Sub - Humans kill peoples like this , Beware Mr Cox the Scary people

Holy shit. I had no idea he was 55 years old already. I would have guessed late 30's at the most.

Once the aging process kicks in, it really moves quickly.

Professor Cox 😊

@@balthazarasquith Dr. Cox

Baron Cox.

It depends on how mass is defined. Today it is unpopular to use the term "relativistic mass". When a physicist talks today about mass he always means "rest mass". But: a hot cup of coffee has indeed a higher mass then a cold cup of coffee. And that’s because the equivalence between momentum, energy and mass.

Its not about popularity. Rest mass is invariant. If relativistic mass were real then fast moving bodies would exert an increased gravitational force etc. etc. Energy and mass are convertible but this does not give rise to relativistic mass which in the limit becomes infinite.@@grandeau3802

Serious question please 🤗 What about a frozen cup of coffee Doesn't a frozen liquid expand 🧊 ?

I’m a Chem Eng too and I’ve always said science isn’t about knowing all the answers, it’s the process of looking for them. We know a lot, but there’s always more to learn, no matter how good you are.

Same logic applies. @@grahamfisher5436

Why? How?

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I think the only thing I ever heard Neil de Grasse Tyson say about Cox is that he wishes that there were more of him, that he seems to be the only Brit who appears on tv. I’d add Dawkins. But maybe Dawkins is too controversial for Tyson to champion, much as he agrees with the notion that religions are (almost certainly) just bosh.

Saw the clip when I went to see Mission Impossible last year and thought it looked so boring! 3 hrs of utter dross

Lewis Carrolls’ book on mathematical logic helped me look at so many things differently not just maths

Great, another druggy.

@@ninersix2790 Not all drugs are evil good sir, especially if regulated

@@ninersix2790 I’m not any old druggy mate, I’m the worst kind. I’m the rob my bedridden mother of her only pain meds type druggy, I’m the shake your hand rob your house kind of druggy, I’m the rob your phone sell it for a tenner type druggy. The tweaker, the no sleeper, the peace preacher! Lol. nah mate, drugs are beyond good and evil. Get serious, leap past those resentments, if it is a conversation you desire.

​@@n0body550 Exactly there is use ( to open the mind) And abuse

There those who do but can't teach who then claim that teachers teach but can't do. There are also those who can do AND teach and they are worth their weight in gold. And of course there are those who can't do or teach.

I was the opposite of you: I was poor from a traditional academic standpoint (more due to lack of interest than ability), but give me a problem or scientific concept to unravel and I will knock it out the park. I think I agree with you that too often we confuse academia with intelligence, and I suspect the ‘sweet spot’ (if we are to evolve) is how to properly challenge people rather than how to ‘properly’ teach people….

@@anathardayaldar Geniuses who are great teachers are a rare breed indeed. They set the world alight. I'd be happy if I have created a few sparks!

@@MrArchie800 Sadly, education has become very much a 'one size fits all' and yet, it fits fewer and fewer people. The National Curriculum - jump through hoops, with constant testing - has stifled creativity, piled on pressure and left no time to think and do. I left.

Feynman was a good teacher

That's thrown me a couple of times too, when I've expected it to be one of them and it ends up being the other. I also know of three Chris Evans and two David Mitchells.

I think Sagans impact was mainly in the US if we are being honest here.

@@timphillips9954I live in the UK and Sagan was well known to me and instigated my interest in science and science fiction.

@@timphillips9954Sagan was responsible for the spacecrafts that have made it the furthest distance from earth in human history. His impact is worldwide. Thats kinda the purpose of it hahah

@@dancoyle6911 spacecraft(s) With that use of plurals you must be from the USA, lol.

@@timphillips9954 True. His work is still out there for others to benefit from though. " Small blue dot ".

Good to have both of them