I so wish Brian Cox could be a guest star on an episode of Red Dwarf one day, as a character explaining the workings of some weird alien star you’re all headed towards….just for all the crew to be like “….nahhhhh you’ve no idea what you’re talking about” just before they plough into it And love this show, real shame you seem to have stopped doing it. Have just saved about 20 to watch. Best interviews I’ve seen
I'd just like to say that this is one of the most delightfully interesting and intellectually stimulating videos I've ever seen on UA-cam. Thank you very much for your highly entertaining videos; I think the concept is fantastic, due in no small part to the calibre of your guests. Please keep them coming!
So - driving in Central London, navigating to a specific point, conducting an interview with someone you've just met and trying to comprehend particle physics. I'd have crashed the bloody car, so well done Mr Llewellyn! It's lovely to see an educator in action, and to see someone so happy to be educated. Bravo!
I just adore Professor Cox. He's brilliant but is so joyous about science, the world and the universe. It's very childlike and incredibly endearing. I'd love the opportunity to pick his brain.
best one yet in my eyes - i could talk quantum physics with Brian for ages. i love the theories and looking at the world in a different way... great vid Bob!
"Right" "right" "Wow" "right" "yeah, uh huhn." Other than "right" it was a joy to listen to and to watch as I remember being stuck in endless traffic jams on various British motorways. Thx to the uploader. I wouldn't see it on Oz otherwise.
I hope Brian comes back periodically to give us updates on his work. I never get tired of his ability to express physics is in a way that even I can understand. He could be a British Feynman!
I have to say that I like this show. It's an interesting idea for interviewing people in an informal and also cheap way. I'm definitely going to look up some of the others. Keep it up!
5:40 - Just sitting here chatting away... This is exactly why Carpool works so well, there's no agenda, the guests aren't plugging a new film or punting a new book (actually wait...), just a lot of very interesting, intelligent people from many walks of life with stories to tell having a pleasant chat with a genuine, interested and unpretentious host. I hope this series explodes into the popularity it deserves.
Great show. How did i miss this. There really aren't many interviews these days that just talk about interesting things with interesting people, just a collection of anecdotes (most i assume are made up). Great to see the scrapheap challenge man again, i used to like him with lisa, they looked like they had a lot of fun. gratitude from an insomniac engineering nerd.
Again, not looking for Brian Cox, and simply blown away every time he speaks. Another brilliant mind, that sadly, not enough people know about or have the mental capacity to understand, try to understand, or even respect. If you can't fall into understand, try to understand, or respect with everything in life...why are you alive? His quote fits most UA-cam comments: You can have your opinion, but don't have the right to be listened to!
I find this enormously entertaining. As an artist with no science education, I appreciate the host standing in for me saying all the rights and wows...scientists must find us such dolts. I appreciate that Cox does not let on how ridiculous it must seem that non-scientists are so surprised and awed by what he knows to be the basic facts about the world.
Hello: dear professor BRIAN Cox: Tusen tack Du jobba hård för oss som livet jorden fantasik jobb med dina egna Kärleksfull och omtänksam!!=Du läser oss hur djup som möjligt och hur mycket vi kan anda otur till lycka!!:love you inom hjärta riktigt ge andra som vi kan =bästa väl ❤✋👍👍👍👍👍
great interview, enjoy the whole concept, conversations in a car brilliant, why couldnt i have come up with that idea! Mr Llewellyn bring back red dwarf,scrapheap challenge is ace also!
I love smart and funny people. I love how eloquent he speaks.I like the interview. I don't care about the right,oh, and yeahs but I'm sure none of us would really had anything to say either.
3:10 this was my exact reaction when I was told to think of Jupiter as a failed star. Had it got more mass, fusion could take place, and it would start to radiate photons, illuminating our sky just like the Sun.
I wouldn't have chosen a car to conduct interview/conversations. I can barely comprehend questions asked to me while I'm driving a car. Impressive that he's driving and taking in information about concepts completely new to him
Enjoyed that, thank you for uploading. Ignore the negative comments about not fully understanding all that Brian Cox says, I fail to fully comprehend a conversation with the Mrs about the weekly shop when Im driving :)
Just throwing this out there...Brian Cox is Rogers Waters if he had found physics rather than his own self-obsessed story. Both are wonderfully entertaining!
@carpoolUK ...and on a more positive note, i've only just discovered carpool and can't get enough of it, what a great idea this was, well done :) Content over form.
That's because you're talking blabbering crap which there is no possible way to back any of it up. All just a theory dreamt up by scientists. Just like gravity.
the 1st thing I remember is the apollo soyus, great 1st memories eh it wud b a gr8 idea to have B Cox in the front with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies in the back
'if youre in a car travelling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on will anything happen?' is from an old Steven Wright routine. He said he asked this at job interviews and if he didnt get an answer he'd say he didnt want the job
The book that Richard mentions around the 16:30 mark is most likely "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. It's a fantastic book even if Richard was thinking of a different book but I'm 95% sure it's Outliers.
Thanks for posting..and thank you Prof. Cox for you're sincere scientific explanations. I'm shocked at the lack of funding for physics research. It's simply scandalous! Substantially more GDP should be invested and in return the UK would lead the world in this technology and also make tons of $$.
I love your videos. If you would actually be reacting to what Brian Cox says in any other way, 99% of the people watching would not be able to follow the conversation anymore, so that was the best way to do it. I think asking the questions that most of the people watching would ask as well is the best way to do an interview, and you do it really well.
I loved the book, Why Does e=mc²?; at some points reading it was like listening to him explain first hand. It was really easy to understand - I failed myself by not taking physics as a subject even though it's my main passion beyond English... headdesk.
@Elpmek I doubt it. Most of the academics I know would happily spend all day every day talking about their subjects. To survive as an academic you have to really, really bloody love your subject - and if you don't get to Coxy's position without passion. Also, every person you meet has a different level of understanding, and a different body of knowledge, so part of the joy of explaining your ideas to them is trying to find new, and better, explanations.
I think I just fell in love with Brian Cox have you ever heard of a partical physicist who used to be in a rock band? and I feel the same way about maths ... I love physics, I dont like maths very much and I find difficult
LOL!! "wow" this just cracks me up. thinking about how Kryten and Cat used to talk about things in space as a 'squiggly thing' or a 'swirly thing' haha.
See Leonard Suskind's Stanford lectures on particle physics (which are on youtube) the electrons are shared/smeared out among atoms in a molecule which is a lower energy state than them beign seperate - this is to do with the electron field - the electromagnetic force is responsible for holding electrons to the nucleus in individual elements but it isn't responsible for holding molacules together because the electrons should all repel or one should just get donated and no molecules
An extension of Brian's last answer: If you travel CLOSE to the speed of light and turn on headlights, the light will still be seen by all observers to be travelling at c
Everyone seems to be having a go at the presenter for saying right, wow etc but that's a neccessary part of conversational ettiquette. If you are explaining something to someone and they are completely silent and not responding in any way you begin to feel that they are not listening, by giving feedback the presenter is not only letting Brtian know that he is listening but by saying 'wow' he is letting him know that he is actually interested. This is completely natural and i bet you all do it!
i'd love to meet him. it's not often that genuinely intelligent, nice people get media coverage the way he has (e.g. QI, would i lie to you etc). i'm not a scientist, im a linguistics student, but i do find space an amazing thing and i'd just loooove to listen to him talk!
@HermanTheNinja There is more of this conversation further down. It began just a few responses down from these. Typing this so you any fence-sitters have a comprehensive view of our exchange.
brian cox unscripted was the most entertaining experience i've had in a good while. he's actually even BETTER unscripted than he is in a more structured program.
I so wish Brian Cox could be a guest star on an episode of Red Dwarf one day, as a character explaining the workings of some weird alien star you’re all headed towards….just for all the crew to be like “….nahhhhh you’ve no idea what you’re talking about” just before they plough into it
And love this show, real shame you seem to have stopped doing it. Have just saved about 20 to watch. Best interviews I’ve seen
Prof. Cox is DEFINITELY on my short list for people I'd love to meet and spend an evening talking with. Well done!
Love it, Brian Cox 's first question to God, "Hang on a minute, if this afterlife really exists how do fridges work then?"
This was great to watch :D I could listen to Brian talk all day, also i can't get enough of his epic smile
Wow. I am honestly stunned by this series. There has been such amazing conversations going on. Very well done.
By the way loved you in Red Dwarf
You could do a whole series with Professor Brian Cox, he is just fantastic to listen to.
"So if there's an afterlife, I'd have to reconsider the engineering design of fridges."
Genius.
Why?
Because how does the afterlife work in relation to the laws of physics a la fridge design.
Kryten 2X4B-523P and Brian Cox discussing physics. Love it..
I'd just like to say that this is one of the most delightfully interesting and intellectually stimulating videos I've ever seen on UA-cam. Thank you very much for your highly entertaining videos; I think the concept is fantastic, due in no small part to the calibre of your guests. Please keep them coming!
Why can't there be more people like Brian Cox, brilliant interview!
So - driving in Central London, navigating to a specific point, conducting an interview with someone you've just met and trying to comprehend particle physics. I'd have crashed the bloody car, so well done Mr Llewellyn!
It's lovely to see an educator in action, and to see someone so happy to be educated. Bravo!
Driving through London while discussing quantum mechanics with Brian Cox sounds like a recipe for brain fusion.
i'd be willing; but can't drive
hes just smiling the whole time, what a dreamboat. makes me want to learn so much m ore about everything.
It's the smug look of an establishment shill, is all.
Brian is just brilliant, could listen to him all day. Also Rob's great too.
I just adore Professor Cox. He's brilliant but is so joyous about science, the world and the universe. It's very childlike and incredibly endearing. I'd love the opportunity to pick his brain.
Great interview, thankyou! I could happily listen to Prof. Cox all day!! :D
best one yet in my eyes - i could talk quantum physics with Brian for ages. i love the theories and looking at the world in a different way... great vid Bob!
"Right" "right" "Wow" "right" "yeah, uh huhn." Other than "right" it was a joy to listen to and to watch as I remember being stuck in endless traffic jams on various British motorways. Thx to the uploader. I wouldn't see it on Oz otherwise.
Really enjoyed that. Thanks
Brian broke the timeline continuum and turned an interview into a lecture!
Another great interview. Bravo.
Always a bonus while searching Brian Cox interviews to find one with Kryten!!
I hope Brian comes back periodically to give us updates on his work. I never get tired of his ability to express physics is in a way that even I can understand. He could be a British Feynman!
I have to say that I like this show. It's an interesting idea for interviewing people in an informal and also cheap way. I'm definitely going to look up some of the others. Keep it up!
5:40 - Just sitting here chatting away...
This is exactly why Carpool works so well, there's no agenda, the guests aren't plugging a new film or punting a new book (actually wait...), just a lot of very interesting, intelligent people from many walks of life with stories to tell having a pleasant chat with a genuine, interested and unpretentious host. I hope this series explodes into the popularity it deserves.
Great interview and great concept for interviewing. :o)
Great show. How did i miss this. There really aren't many interviews these days that just talk about interesting things with interesting people, just a collection of anecdotes (most i assume are made up). Great to see the scrapheap challenge man again, i used to like him with lisa, they looked like they had a lot of fun.
gratitude from an insomniac engineering nerd.
So cool too see him with the hand symbol in the thumbnail. You should have got Mr C.Charles in the back seat and had nice little gathering ;P
Again, not looking for Brian Cox, and simply blown away every time he speaks. Another brilliant mind, that sadly, not enough people know about or have the mental capacity to understand, try to understand, or even respect. If you can't fall into understand, try to understand, or respect with everything in life...why are you alive?
His quote fits most UA-cam comments: You can have your opinion, but don't have the right to be listened to!
I really enjoyed this episode! Thanks mister, and keep on trucking!
I find this enormously entertaining. As an artist with no science education, I appreciate the host standing in for me saying all the rights and wows...scientists must find us such dolts. I appreciate that Cox does not let on how ridiculous it must seem that non-scientists are so surprised and awed by what he knows to be the basic facts about the world.
Thanks. Really enjoyed this one
A brilliantly interesting interview and entertaining 30 mins Thank you!
Don't let idiots get you down. These videos are brilliant. I wish we had more of this kind of stuff in America.
He also played keyboards with a rock band called Dare. And the drummer was in a band with my Pal a long time ago.
Born in 68?
He's older than me! He looks like a kid.
Was in the year above me at school. Had the school's biggest mullet.
Mingy Comumbus.
😀😆.....
Brian Cox should do this a lot more. The public need to know a lot more about science, and he's the man to explain
A guy working at CERN came up the world wide web and CERN was the first site live. That's a pretty good value add
"One of our 20-odd tonne magnets jumped about a foot to the left"
... WHAT.
The comparison between an afterlife and a fridge was a piece of brilliance.
Many thanks for creating such a wonderful show, Bobby. Ignore the haters - they don't have anything close to your humility and dignity.
Excellent thank you Robert
This is like an add on to his wonders series, glad i watched this.
I don't remember who said that but it applies perfectly: "By the time he'd answered me, I couldn't understand my own question anymore."
LOL! Robert Llewellyn has done well to focus on the driving as well as what Brian Cox had to say. Brilliant 30 mins.
The speed of light bit at the end was brilliant
Brilliant bloke, super intelligent and can explain things so even Lister could understand!!! lol
Cheers.
I’m just discovering this here on UA-cam,we need new ones ...
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30:31, the question of god.......
No, because of thermodynamics & if so then how does my fridge work.
Give the man a round of applause 👏
Brian Cox is the greatest thing to come out of Oldham since my Dad!
Hello: dear professor BRIAN Cox:
Tusen tack Du jobba hård för oss som livet jorden fantasik jobb med dina egna
Kärleksfull och omtänksam!!=Du läser oss hur djup som möjligt och hur mycket vi kan anda otur till lycka!!:love you inom hjärta riktigt ge andra som vi kan =bästa väl ❤✋👍👍👍👍👍
its so cool that i actually can understand everything mr. cox says!
i love physics and space and omg.... i love science
10:27 I love the way Cox says "the green party should applaud" in a way the says 'fuck the green party'
great interview, enjoy the whole concept, conversations in a car brilliant, why couldnt i have come up with that idea! Mr Llewellyn bring back red dwarf,scrapheap challenge is ace also!
I love smart and funny people. I love how eloquent he speaks.I like the interview. I don't care about the right,oh, and yeahs but I'm sure none of us would really had anything to say either.
right wow right wow right right wow wow
Not Robert's greatest hour.
i read this before watching and now is all i hear
Sarithus 😆
I love the theme tune...
Mark Shorrocks I was just about to write this and then you beat me to it. It's just so calming, the whole show is calming!
This is probably my favourite of them all.
He's so smiley :)
still watching, still great!!
3:10 this was my exact reaction when I was told to think of Jupiter as a failed star. Had it got more mass, fusion could take place, and it would start to radiate photons, illuminating our sky just like the Sun.
I wouldn't have chosen a car to conduct interview/conversations. I can barely comprehend questions asked to me while I'm driving a car.
Impressive that he's driving and taking in information about concepts completely new to him
I should be sleeping but all ive done this past 10 hours is watch brian cox videos
Marvellous! Thank you.
Enjoyed that, thank you for uploading.
Ignore the negative comments about not fully understanding all that Brian Cox says, I fail to fully comprehend a conversation with the Mrs about the weekly shop when Im driving :)
Just throwing this out there...Brian Cox is Rogers Waters if he had found physics rather than his own self-obsessed story. Both are wonderfully entertaining!
the part about denuclearizing astonishing me, i am a physicist. masters degree, and Brian thought me something new on a tv talk show. :) thank you sir
Almost looks like Penny is listening to Sheldon Cooper :D
@carpoolUK ...and on a more positive note, i've only just discovered carpool and can't get enough of it, what a great idea this was, well done :)
Content over form.
When I talk like this to people, talking about the amazing things I know about the universe, people get angry with me and want me to shut up :(
we're on the same boat mate. Astronomy ftw.
That's because you're talking blabbering crap which there is no possible way to back any of it up. All just a theory dreamt up by scientists. Just like gravity.
the 1st thing I remember is the apollo soyus, great 1st memories eh
it wud b a gr8 idea to have B Cox in the front with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies in the back
'if youre in a car travelling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on will anything happen?' is from an old Steven Wright routine. He said he asked this at job interviews and if he didnt get an answer he'd say he didnt want the job
I think the light goes away from you at light speed but I might be wrong
9/10 that was really nice and informative, contrary to my expectations
The book that Richard mentions around the 16:30 mark is most likely "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell.
It's a fantastic book even if Richard was thinking of a different book but I'm 95% sure it's Outliers.
Thanks for posting..and thank you Prof. Cox for you're sincere scientific explanations. I'm shocked at the lack of funding for physics research. It's simply scandalous! Substantially more GDP should be invested and in return the UK would lead the world in this technology and also make tons of $$.
+Lola Bola Or perhaps more accurately, tons of ££ ;)
Does the start of the theme tune remind anyone else of Band on the Run by Wings?
This would be 100x more kickass with subtitles
I love your videos.
If you would actually be reacting to what Brian Cox says in any other way, 99% of the people watching would not be able to follow the conversation anymore, so that was the best way to do it. I think asking the questions that most of the people watching would ask as well is the best way to do an interview, and you do it really well.
I love the way Robert reacts when Brian told him he was in D:REAM."Oh,that was you?" He must have thought Brian had been the singer.!!!
I loved the book, Why Does e=mc²?; at some points reading it was like listening to him explain first hand. It was really easy to understand - I failed myself by not taking physics as a subject even though it's my main passion beyond English... headdesk.
Love what Professor Brian Cox has to say about the "afterlife" 22:42
@Elpmek I doubt it. Most of the academics I know would happily spend all day every day talking about their subjects. To survive as an academic you have to really, really bloody love your subject - and if you don't get to Coxy's position without passion. Also, every person you meet has a different level of understanding, and a different body of knowledge, so part of the joy of explaining your ideas to them is trying to find new, and better, explanations.
"fusion bomb, thats old, rubbish." so funny!
I think I just fell in love with Brian Cox
have you ever heard of a partical physicist who used to be in a rock band?
and I feel the same way about maths ... I love physics, I dont like maths very much and I find difficult
LOL!! "wow" this just cracks me up. thinking about how Kryten and Cat used to talk about things in space as a 'squiggly thing' or a 'swirly thing' haha.
behind all of the expectations....Mr Cox is a nice man.
Can't believe I met this guy the other day, crazy stuff.
See Leonard Suskind's Stanford lectures on particle physics (which are on youtube) the electrons are shared/smeared out among atoms in a molecule which is a lower energy state than them beign seperate - this is to do with the electron field - the electromagnetic force is responsible for holding electrons to the nucleus in individual elements but it isn't responsible for holding molacules together because the electrons should all repel or one should just get donated and no molecules
I just had a weird fantasy of Brian Cox waking up in heaven next to a fridge and just going "oh"
All I kept hearing was "right". Then again if I was in a car with Brian Cox and he was talking all I would do is try to soak it in and say "right'.
I like the bit at 25:37. "I'm not saying 'right' because I understand. I'm saying 'right' because I'm trying to understand."
"Is the galaxy going to fold in on itself?"
Brian: "Nope".
Me: LOL.
An extension of Brian's last answer:
If you travel CLOSE to the speed of light and turn on headlights, the light will still be seen by all observers to be travelling at c
Wasnt expecting his first line to be "Ive done snorkeling" lol
i just ordered his book off amazon
Never heard of this show so thanks to Seinfeld I have. LOL
If Brian Cox ever needs a Taxi around Adelaide.
I am up for it..!! My head would explode, but it would be well worth it..!!
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Everyone seems to be having a go at the presenter for saying right, wow etc but that's a neccessary part of conversational ettiquette. If you are explaining something to someone and they are completely silent and not responding in any way you begin to feel that they are not listening, by giving feedback the presenter is not only letting Brtian know that he is listening but by saying 'wow' he is letting him know that he is actually interested. This is completely natural and i bet you all do it!
i'd love to meet him. it's not often that genuinely intelligent, nice people get media coverage the way he has (e.g. QI, would i lie to you etc).
i'm not a scientist, im a linguistics student, but i do find space an amazing thing and i'd just loooove to listen to him talk!
@HermanTheNinja There is more of this conversation further down. It began just a few responses down from these.
Typing this so you any fence-sitters have a comprehensive view of our exchange.
brian cox unscripted was the most entertaining experience i've had in a good while. he's actually even BETTER unscripted than he is in a more structured program.