Brian Cox is one of my favourite presenters, so easy to listen to. Musician, educator, presenter.... Now it appears he has the patience of a Saint as well. Are there no limits to his skills?
Brian Cox, holding himself together when the pink shirt guy interrupts and asks stupid questions is mind blowing. But the beauty of Brian Cox is when you see him again going back to science as excited as a little boy going back home after his first day at school. I really admire Brian Cox’s love for science.
He is certainly very calm. He seems incredibly happy to be able to improve peoples understanding of AstroPhysics and as you say, Brians excitement is like a boy running home after his first day in school. His lectures at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology where he is a Professor must be completely enthralling for his students. Not sure if he lectures at CERN too where he also works but he is clearly a born educator. Never seen him get annoyed no matter how silly the question nor how pointless the interruption.
People shit on Joe Rogan, but watching this interview makes me appreciate how such a great interviewer Joe is. This is light and day difference when Brian goes to JRE. Joe gives Brian all the time to talk without interrupting and actually listens intently.
When it comes to guests about scientific stuff, rogan gets good guests on and gets them talking about things I want to hear. I just don't like him because of how much he flip flops on politics and won't speak out enough about the left. Probably because he is leftest. But an interviewer should be much more neutral with that stuff and just tell the truth.
Every interview I've seen, professor Cox answers questions that I've seen answered by other people but he just seems to enjoy it so much. He's so enthusiastic, like a kid, and he explains it in ways that make perfect sense
Which is why he was chosen by the BBC to communicate with the public, because he has the rare ability to have a good engaging personality, alongside being able to explain complex physics in layman's terms. A very rare combination for a physicist. I have met him, really nice guy.
Brian Cox is brilliant at explaining science in terms that everyone can understand. I adore listening to him talk about this field that he truly loves. He is so intelligent but not condescending to the rest of us.
One has to admire Mr. Pinks self awareness when he says "my limited brain", its just a shame he then had to demonstrate it so effectively all the way through. Why on earth is he interviewing Brian Cox who has a brain the size of a planet? I'm as thick as two short planks so i'd rather sit and listen than look like a blithering idiot.
Pink shirt will never be the first fly on the dog turd. Why doesn't he concentrate on interviewing public toilet cleaners on the most effective way to mop up tramp spew.
I love Bryan Cox, he speaks to my soul, with how poetically he speaks of his passion for physics, I wish to one day be able to see him in person on tour. I want to thank you for providing all your content, I have been dealing with grief loosing my mother and watching you here on youtube has truly helped me, when on days that I’m struggling , learning or the universe takes me on a journey away from pain to a place of inspiration
Same I am homeless and I watch Brian Cox videos on my phone to take my mind off the terrible reality of my current situation.. thank you mr Cox!! You are a special soul!!
Pink Shirty Guy: "I feel like what your saying, as we stand like on the edge of the known, is that science might actually arrive at the idea that gods does exist, and that's what we've discovered now. Do you know what I'm saying?" Everyone: "No, we have no clue about the random words falling out of your mouth."
He's incredibly annoying because he just butts in and interrupts when Brian is explaining something or ruminating on a theme. That totally kills the flow and concentration. I wish he wasn't there.
Brian Cox is so brilliant and articulate! I could listen to him forever! Not only does he have his Phd in astrophysics but he also runs the CERN (where they smash atoms together) collider in Europe!
Could listen to Brian Cox all day. The paradox of the human species: some of us filled with awe and wonder, recognizing that life is short and precious, others filled with ignorance, hatred, fear and suspicion. How do we survive the next hundred years...😮
You're probably right but that, unfortunately would involve a complete change in our government, to a type of government to which we are now diametrically opposed.
There's great skill, in this case with a chunk of charisma, to explain complex issues with enough detail to mostly satisfy the curious, without losing anyone.
Joking aside, it's a slightly condescending comment you've made. This kind of thing shouldn't just be for the highly educated, articulate elite. He's asking questions that are relevant to his level understanding or lack thereof (which is probably the same level as most of us watching this) and he articulates them in the best way he is able.
Funnily enough, because they don’t like IDK, they filled in the gaps with senseless stories and people not only believe them but will argue with people that they are true. Think how much further we’d be without religion. Hopefully the world will wake up soon. It’s a dead institution
When Brian says we don’t know he really means he doesn’t know. Time is not linear, only experienced as being linear, so there is no beginning or end. Something critical is being left out of Brian’s and most other scientists thinking, this is a multidimensional reality and quantum physics plus consciousness need to be included in their efforts to understand reality, plus the most critical thing of all that is missing is AN OPEN MIND. 🌟
@Trystan3345 even you are allowed to have a conscious thought, but maybe you're right. No one else is allowed to wonder how the universe works unless they agree with the status quo. For example, the scientists that claimed to have broken the DNA code but only looked at the chemicals in 3.5% of our DNA and said that the remaining 96.5% of our DNA was JUNK. Or the scientists that said we evolved from apes, but there was a missing link that they have yet to find. Or the scientists that use terms like Dark Matter and Dark Energy but haven't a clue what these terms mean. Well if we were all mindless and insulting, we'd be like you. Still I think freedom of thought is creative and healthy. 😍
Love it when Brian Cox and other scientists say I don't know. It gives the next generation something to do. Another way to think about it is that given our current knowledge base, with every answer we throw up many new questions.
Dear professor Cox, THANK YOU for your absolutely amazing lecture! You have a gift of explaining astrophysics to the layman, like no one else. Thank you. I'm a new fan of yours 🤗
Shame about some of the comments here about the hosts. The entire point of Brian’s role as a public communicator of science is exactly what we see in this excellent podcast episode. It’s reaching out to people of all levels of understanding, and this video more than any I’ve found so far is the best example of that. There’s nothing wrong with not knowing something, or not even knowing enough to know what even to ask. These are exactly the people we need to be reaching out to and welcoming with a friendly attitude. From an interaction like this people that previously had no interest or knowledge in the subject might have a seed planted that grows into something more. Within the hosts or the audience listening. It might happen quickly or it might sit there for years before sprouting. Science and the understanding of it should be for everyone. Not just people that have already bought the books or know the basics and are fanboying over the author. This was a friendly conversation. Everyone involved was polite and having fun. Brian had all the time and patience in the world and clearly had fun, too. This podcast interview is precisely why he’s the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. We need more like it, just as we need more silly interviews with talkshow hosts, and more serious casual lectures with an audience of fans. We need it all. Thanks to both hosts who were fun and friendly, and asked some good questions many people would have asked in their position. Thanks for getting Brian on. And thanks also to Brian for being an excellent public communicator and giving everyone time, regardless of where they’re coming from. And doing it with a smile and while having fun, too. This episode will have got many listeners thinking, or even going on to proactive learn about amazing things they might otherwise not have, had it not been organised and published here.
You can edit the hosts out and the video does a better service to people. They do too many interruptions and poor follow ups comments and questions that add too much noise to Brian explanations and discussions. It drove me crazy.
There's great skill, in this case with a chunk of charisma, to explain complex issues with enough detail to mostly satisfy the curious, without losing anyone. Now having listened to all of it, at least one of his hosts there sets that bar moderate at best 🤪
Yeah his mate in the pink shirt is winding me up. People are here for themselves and their egos and it's just pathetic.. honestly, how can you be so full of yourself whilst talking to Brian Cox? Anyway Mr. I HAVE A ROLEX AND LISTEN TO MY WAY OF TALKING made a few of us leave.
Ruined by the "common man" in the pink shirt. Why T F do all these modern science discussions need a court jester/Muppet to represent "us"? We don't need to be told what to think. Just why? Why was he there?
He is a champion educator, and i think you would agree, he brings people from the fringes of science to at least a steadfast understanding of the subject, hes a man to admire, not to necessarily ridicule because he wore a "pink shirt". if thats all you got from this ,please wear a white etc. colour and do it better, are you looking at the petson and, perhaps, not the message?
@@stephenraven5339 what?? I was referring to the planted "common layman" not Brian. Brian wasn't the guy wearing the pink shirt ffs. Pay attention. Yes, Brian is a great populariser and my point is that we don't need a bloke playing the "sorry bruv, I don't understand all this fizziks stuff. I don't geddit. " shit. It's ridiculous.
@@joeking4206 I agree. The pink shirt guy keeps on interrupting and it really ruins the flow of this. Brian will be expounding on some complex stuff and pink short blurts in and ruins the thread of what Brian is saying. His role is idiotic and he brings nothing to this.
The large scale structure of space time, one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read. It was great bedtime reading for my kids. And now it is free to download. Highly recommended.
I just rabbitholed myself in to a 2h reading stint after your recommendation. But I am not sure if we’re talking the same book, it’s full of formulas that aren’t really kids material I guess. Atleast not for kids like I was.. I found this here Hawking, S., & Ellis, G. (1973). The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511524646
Brian Cox is best on his own. Great storyteller similar to Neil Degrasse Tyson 👍, They draw you into the unknown of space explaining it in a way we can understand!! TY BRIAN👍
TYSM I love science (I even have won the best scientist in my year in school) and I think that professor Cox is amazing me and my dad love to watch to his documentaries specially about the universe and us tysm for this, I like to listen to podcasts when shoe polishing for cadets
I was gonna throw shade at the interviewers for being tool bags until I realized that trying to say ANYTHING OF MEANING after Professor Cox speaks is virtually impossible... The man just had a charisma and way with words that leaves me surprisingly satiated yet contently dumbfounded..
Always a joy to listen to Brian Cox I have no idea who the hosts are on this channel. The guy in the pink top should either learn a bit about the topic prior to the interview or stop interrupting with inane comments. He also made an amazing pre-sup that God exists near the beginning!
It's such a shame that Professor Cox was interviewed on this 'show' where at least one of the interviewers had absolutely no clue what questions to ask and even less about the answers given. Professor Brian Cox is an extremely accomplished physicist who, in my humble opinion, would be better suited to a more scientific based environment of questioning.
The purpose of science communicators is to make science interesting to a non-scientific audience. This is mostly achieved by giving talks/being questioned in non-scientific environments. Not everyone has the same level of comprehension but everyone can appreciate science to some capacity. Not all talks with Brian Cox would run smoothly because some folks are alien to the topics he covers. The guy (Jax Jones) is a DJ I believe. Imagine if all music composers made music available only for people who studied music and know how to write music and play some form of instrument? Lol that's synonymous you saying he should only be present on science shows. Trust me Brian being on this show has created new science enthusiasts from this channel's core followers.
Brian's great quality is being able to bring the biggest and most complex things in the universe to the average person but even Brian didn't stand a chance with that dude in the pink
Cox's greatest talk. Either you are a scientist who is comfortable to say I don't know but try to find out, or you are afraid and just make something up to fill the void, which leads you directly to religion.
When put on the spot, he hasn’t a clue, where Brian Green is the personification of pure genius and of cause the USA have the genius that is Laurence Krauss Sorry Brian Cox is third rate compared to the above two!.. Mind you Cox isn’t bad for an ex keyboard player in a third rate pop band called De Ream! 😂😂👍
Check out, Brian Green, Neil De Grass Tyson and a few other-mainly American physicists and Astro physicists! The Above two mentioned are absolutely incredible educators on the Cosmos and explain it beautiful! Brian Cox is a great fan of them both as well! They real are in a league of their own!!
…that you know of. Shawn, Carol, and Brian Greene have a similar speech and cadence you may enjoy. NDT can come off annoying, and certainly not soothing to many. Taki.
Conversation gets ruined everytime the the bald guy speaks. It's like everyone is watching this in awe of Brian and even the first host is entertaining intelligent converstion and the BANG, bald guy opens his mouth and we change course to lala land where Brian has to suddenly switch to explaining reality to a kid. Only here for Brian now.
I'm from Denmark and I will never forget what happened at Roskilde during the Pearl Jam concert, it was so sad. Much was done after the accident on June 30, 2000 to prevent this from happening again. It is very sad that such a tragedy repeats itself, when there are things that can be done to prevent it.
Brian Cox is a sci-fi writer, and an enchanter. You are enchanted by the way he speaks and of the things he says, so you cannot cope with the fact that it doesn't represent reality.
Exactly, it's all theory and not science at all. Tens of billions of years is not observable or proven. We can barely preserve records of the past 500 years. I was watching a documentary on wildlife, you will hear them admit that there was an intelligent creator. They'll use "mother nature" "as nature intended" etc. But they'll never say as God intended. Funny religion get ridiculed for belief in a creator but "science" is okay believing in aliens (ie demonic entities, familiar spirits). Hypocrites.
I keep hearing Einstein being referred to as a Master Reference for all thing space related, while realising he died ~ 2-1/2 years before we put anything up into space! He was famous for imagining images of physical actions of matter with applied physics, which we have the use of modern computer based graphics to demonstrate, all such technology evolving way after his time, though there were Artistic Impressions sketched out to assist descriptions of.
I love listening to Dr Cox, his explanations are so eloquent, articulate and relatable, but I had to turn this off because 👚 guy was so inarticulate and always interrupting with some irrelevant non sequitur.
The conversation on "the unknown" was brilliant. I personally am not scared or fearful of the unknown. It confuses me as to why people fear the unknown as unknown is complete lack of information of observation, reported experience, assumptions and plausibility/ possibility and immagination. Fear of unknown is an individuals inability to seperate the ego driven self imposed acceptance of ones meaning / uniqueness to a complete external acceptance that ones life in the physical world / universe is so small due to the enormous immensities of the unknown universe that an individuals ability to accept their life without knowing or understanding certain aspects goes completely against the cultural, philosophical or spiritual meaning ones ego places on oneself as a safety net to the thought of their own demise. You are you no matter what specifications you impose on yourself to justify your existence. You are you no matter how singular or selfish you think just to exist. Release The Ego, Extend your consciousness past linear time and free your mind and accept the empathetic universe as you are the universe and the universe is you whether alive or not.
4:10 I have never thought of that! That is so interesting, and totally true. It's kind of like death. Nobody is worried about the billions of years that passed by before they were born, but a lot of people worry about not existing in the future. It's kind of the same but reversed. An infinite past makes us uncomfortable but an infinite future doesn't, that is so weird ^^ excellent point.
I think that the 13.8 billion years that I didn’t exist are far more concerning than the eternity that spans out after my death, that’s because once you have existed you can never “unexist”, said another way, imagine far in the future time travel is mastered, a time traveler coming back to 2023 could meet me, have a conversation with me etc, because in 2023 I am alive, so in a way you never die, you just cease to travel along the arrow of time into the future, but in the past you’re still there alive and kicking 😄 PS I know that travelling backwards in time is theoretically impossible, but lots of possible things were once “theoretically impossible” 👍
@@1234567marks - Once you've been dead and gone long enough... Once there's no one left who remembers you... Once all record of you is lost... You effectively never existed. Seriously, think about all of the people who have lived and died before you that are simply unknown now and never will be again. Who are they? Or more correctly, who WERE they? Oh, and by the way, the Vulcan Science Ministry has indeed determined that time travel is impossible. 😉
@@guarddog318 c’mon now GD, since when has existence had anything to do with people knowing of or remembering you?, existence at a point in time is just fact and doesn’t require a witness!, (is that a tree I hear falling in the forest? 😄), anyway, good news on that Vulcan research 👍
@@guarddog318 let’s have a think, the earth existed for billions of years before life existed, could we then question it’s existence prior to life, ie it’s existence not being experienced by a sentient being?, I would argue that on the balance of probabilities it did exist, regardless of being experienced/remembered/forgotten, so in my opinion existence has no relationship to experience.
And that's why people say everything is moving away from everything because the universe is expanding but matter moves independently of space and expansion will not effect the matter in space it will expand around the matter in space and independent of it. So space can still expand all it wants because space doesn't have mass?
It does effect mass, just not more significantly than the strong and weak nuclear forces. It effects light because it doesn't have mass, and therefore doesn't have those forces keeping it from being effected. Which is why things far away appear red shifted.
Space doesn’t expand inside of galaxies near as much as it does between them. Gravity essentially “pulls” space/time together, preventing the expansion inside regions strongly affected by gravity
Black holes are not a singularity as they have push pull. There’s two black holes in the centre of our Galaxy and they, like all black holes in the centre of the spiral galaxies, determine the physics of our galaxy. This means that the physics in each galaxy varies slightly.
This interview made me appreciate Joe Rogan. Even though he doesn't have scientific background he know what questions to ask and what not to apparently.
Brian Cox is one of my favourite presenters, so easy to listen to. Musician, educator, presenter.... Now it appears he has the patience of a Saint as well. Are there no limits to his skills?
LMAOOO
Watching Brian explain things to Mr Pink shirt 👚 is like me explaining algebra to my dog 🐕
Do you know where Al Gebra comes from?
Middle East.
That's why it's called Al Gebra.
Pink shirt nows nothing Brian Cox you were very calm mate Becoz he new nothing
Very clever man Brian Cox love your programs ❤
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Nah mate, it's English. Named after Alfred the Great's zebra.
@@Google_Does_Evil_Nowalgebra is fake and gay
Brian Cox, holding himself together when the pink shirt guy interrupts and asks stupid questions is mind blowing. But the beauty of Brian Cox is when you see him again going back to science as excited as a little boy going back home after his first day at school. I really admire Brian Cox’s love for science.
He is certainly very calm. He seems incredibly happy to be able to improve peoples understanding of AstroPhysics and as you say, Brians excitement is like a boy running home after his first day in school.
His lectures at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology where he is a Professor must be completely enthralling for his students. Not sure if he lectures at CERN too where he also works but he is clearly a born educator.
Never seen him get annoyed no matter how silly the question nor how pointless the interruption.
People shit on Joe Rogan, but watching this interview makes me appreciate how such a great interviewer Joe is. This is light and day difference when Brian goes to JRE. Joe gives Brian all the time to talk without interrupting and actually listens intently.
Rogan's an excellent interviewer. People shit on him because of jealousy mostly.
Joe would kick their heads in
@@SimSim-zf9if Your excellent opinion has been noted.
@@kevinb9830 🤣🤣
When it comes to guests about scientific stuff, rogan gets good guests on and gets them talking about things I want to hear. I just don't like him because of how much he flip flops on politics and won't speak out enough about the left. Probably because he is leftest. But an interviewer should be much more neutral with that stuff and just tell the truth.
Every interview I've seen, professor Cox answers questions that I've seen answered by other people but he just seems to enjoy it so much. He's so enthusiastic, like a kid, and he explains it in ways that make perfect sense
Oh, I agree with you right up to the perfect sense part 😆
Which is why he was chosen by the BBC to communicate with the public, because he has the rare ability to have a good engaging personality, alongside being able to explain complex physics in layman's terms.
A very rare combination for a physicist.
I have met him, really nice guy.
He has a very pleasant delivery. He is humble, but brilliant.
This felt like an Ali G spoof.. Brian Cox did well here.. Great mind
Exactly what I thought haha
pathetic interview, poor brian.
Brian Cox is brilliant at explaining science in terms that everyone can understand. I adore listening to him talk about this field that he truly loves. He is so intelligent but not condescending to the rest of us.
The guy in the pink shirt made this video unbearable to watch.😢
One has to admire Mr. Pinks self awareness when he says "my limited brain", its just a shame he then had to demonstrate it so effectively all the way through. Why on earth is he interviewing Brian Cox who has a brain the size of a planet? I'm as thick as two short planks so i'd rather sit and listen than look like a blithering idiot.
limited brain is a big understatement, i wish he spoke english.
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Pink shirt will never be the first fly on the dog turd. Why doesn't he concentrate on interviewing public toilet cleaners on the most effective way to mop up tramp spew.
I like how Brian says
"I don't know" when talking about life beyond earth and other topics.
I do love Prof Cox's positivity and upbeat attitide.
Brian Cox deserves a Nobel prize 🏆 Amazing Q+A he can bring it down to a human level! 😮❤
I love Bryan Cox, he speaks to my soul, with how poetically he speaks of his passion for physics, I wish to one day be able to see him in person on tour. I want to thank you for providing all your content, I have been dealing with grief loosing my mother and watching you here on youtube has truly helped me, when on days that I’m struggling , learning or the universe takes me on a journey away from pain to a place of inspiration
Same I am homeless and I watch Brian Cox videos on my phone to take my mind off the terrible reality of my current situation.. thank you mr Cox!! You are a special soul!!
Pink Shirty Guy: "I feel like what your saying, as we stand like on the edge of the known, is that science might actually arrive at the idea that gods does exist, and that's what we've discovered now. Do you know what I'm saying?"
Everyone: "No, we have no clue about the random words falling out of your mouth."
He's incredibly annoying because he just butts in and interrupts when Brian is explaining something or ruminating on a theme. That totally kills the flow and concentration. I wish he wasn't there.
I have no idea how this idiot got to interview Brian.
on a positive note though, if this is the sort of twit promoting the good lord we made a bunch of atheists today.
@@jdn-wn4on well to be serious for a second, pink shirt is the audience brian is aiming at - the dim wits.
that part cracked me up so much, I cant stand that guy though he made no positive contribution to the conversation at all
Brian Cox is so brilliant and articulate! I could listen to him forever! Not only does he have his Phd in astrophysics but he also runs the CERN (where they smash atoms together) collider in Europe!
And also had a successful rock band!
The hosts were extremely painful to listen to. Brian Cox was, as usual, brilliant and articulate.
They’re bellends. Disgrace to humanity
@@Bendy-oceans-lol oh come on, they only just recently crawled out of the primeval slime, give them time.
@@HarryNicNicholas some of us can see the real earth my friend..
Not all of us are mentally disabled.
@@Bendy-oceans-lol i have a carers cert for schizophrenia, if you are mentally disabled, or believe you are, seek professional help.
Its okay for everybody to try to understand why?. Whats the meaning of life? it is the life !!
Incredibly smart guy , always pleased to listen to him explain things.
Brian Cox just on a diff intelligent level,yet so humble.Interviewer has so much to learn.Actually quite rude,by the interruptions.
That guy is a clown
I agree
A scientist admitting he doesn't know everything, being humble, and willing to change ideology based on new facts. Wow. Love this guy.
I just found out his 55 years old. I can’t believe it. I thought he was younger than me I’m 43 I thought he was like 40. Dang I look like crap lol.
Take A Moment
Relax
Question everything, my friend.
We are all in this together, my fellow ape
Stay Safe and Stay Free 🎉
Could listen to Brian Cox all day. The paradox of the human species: some of us filled with awe and wonder, recognizing that life is short and precious, others filled with ignorance, hatred, fear and suspicion. How do we survive the next hundred years...😮
Enslave the haters
Very well said!
You're probably right but that, unfortunately would involve a complete change in our government, to a type of government to which we are now diametrically opposed.
Who let Ali G in there?
Same feeling why have Ali G idiot
Ow come they call it the Big Bang when I’m the real big bang!?
Innit
@@jimmythorpe65 "Yo check it out it's my main man Brian Cox aka the Coxmeister"
@@centralintwatt 😂
wicked wicked, cosmos is massive
I love Professor Brian Cox ❤️
Me 2!
Eee, e's a right good lad from oop North, ah tell thee.
Oh I love him too … especially Behind … oops 😮 black hole
The most honest comment ( I - as in we - don't know ) relating science and democracy is a valuable lesson so best we all listen !
💚❤ Thank you Brian for bringing science and astronomy cosmology and astrophysics to the laymen. Its a really kind of you. ❤💚
Smart without apology.
There's great skill, in this case with a chunk of charisma, to explain complex issues with enough detail to mostly satisfy the curious, without losing anyone.
New episode..."Two twits and a Genius"...Brian great as always...two twits...PAINFUL.
Thank you for great interview!
What is the purpose of the guy in the pink shirt?
To “interview” lol
He doesn’t have any purpose. He actually makes the interview dumb down. He looks like a wanna be pitbull. This guy needs to get lost
@@jbblack5420 He's a moron and detracts from the interview. He should go back to working at the car wash.
Do you mean his presence on this podcast or in general?....
Joking aside, it's a slightly condescending comment you've made. This kind of thing shouldn't just be for the highly educated, articulate elite. He's asking questions that are relevant to his level understanding or lack thereof (which is probably the same level as most of us watching this) and he articulates them in the best way he is able.
Well done Brian Cox, very cool stuff.
Religion cannot bear the saying “I don’t know” . Science on the other hand loves it. Scientists then go and try to find the answer.
Which is why I follow science not religion 🙌👍 I love the "I don't know"
Except NDT lol
Funnily enough, because they don’t like IDK, they filled in the gaps with senseless stories and people not only believe them but will argue with people that they are true. Think how much further we’d be without religion. Hopefully the world will wake up soon. It’s a dead institution
It’s the most exciting question. ‘We don’t know’ - so….. WHY don’t we know then…. ❤
When Brian says we don’t know he really means he doesn’t know.
Time is not linear, only experienced as being linear, so there is no beginning or end.
Something critical is being left out of Brian’s and most other scientists thinking, this is a multidimensional reality and quantum physics plus consciousness need to be included in their efforts to understand reality, plus the most critical thing of all that is missing is AN OPEN MIND. 🌟
Oops, Your brains just fell out. You sound like Depac Chopra.
We could say time is nothing. According to Aristotle and his observed paradox. What is nothing divided by nothing
@@rosskennedy-hi2gi nothing
Arrogance + stupidity = this response
@Trystan3345 even you are allowed to have a conscious thought, but maybe you're right. No one else is allowed to wonder how the universe works unless they agree with the status quo.
For example, the scientists that claimed to have broken the DNA code but only looked at the chemicals in 3.5% of our DNA and said that the remaining 96.5% of our DNA was JUNK.
Or the scientists that said we evolved from apes, but there was a missing link that they have yet to find.
Or the scientists that use terms like Dark Matter and Dark Energy but haven't a clue what these terms mean.
Well if we were all mindless and insulting, we'd be like you.
Still I think freedom of thought is creative and healthy. 😍
Does it appear that people who know least, have bigger mics and ear phones?
No...smaller heads 😁
@@philproffitt8363 🤣🤣🤣
When Brain Cox speaks people should listen awesome interview thnx
Should listen but also question.
He ain’t in the same class as the American Physicists! Especially Brian Green and Neil De Grass Tyson!
@@kevinholly5517 oh he surely is. Just that you are american are partial
@@Makabert.Abylon I’m English, born and bred! Birmingham and proud!! He really ain’t in the same league as Brian Green he really isn’t 👍
@@kevinholly5517 Tyson is all ego he’s too far up his own ahole
Love it when Brian Cox and other scientists say I don't know. It gives the next generation something to do.
Another way to think about it is that given our current knowledge base, with every answer we throw up many new questions.
Dear professor Cox,
THANK YOU for your absolutely amazing lecture! You have a gift of explaining astrophysics to the layman, like no one else.
Thank you. I'm a new fan of yours 🤗
I 100% agree
He was really cool in that band too...
@@garnet4846what band
Brian Cox is my favorite person in the (known) universe... or multi-verse)
i think sean carroll, sabine hossenfelder, roger penrose and cox should interbreed.
@@HarryNicNicholasi like that lol.😂😂😂...🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 Slava Ukr4ine 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
I got to 2 mins before I decided to stop, thanks alot pink shirt guy.
Shame about some of the comments here about the hosts. The entire point of Brian’s role as a public communicator of science is exactly what we see in this excellent podcast episode.
It’s reaching out to people of all levels of understanding, and this video more than any I’ve found so far is the best example of that.
There’s nothing wrong with not knowing something, or not even knowing enough to know what even to ask. These are exactly the people we need to be reaching out to and welcoming with a friendly attitude.
From an interaction like this people that previously had no interest or knowledge in the subject might have a seed planted that grows into something more. Within the hosts or the audience listening. It might happen quickly or it might sit there for years before sprouting.
Science and the understanding of it should be for everyone. Not just people that have already bought the books or know the basics and are fanboying over the author.
This was a friendly conversation. Everyone involved was polite and having fun. Brian had all the time and patience in the world and clearly had fun, too.
This podcast interview is precisely why he’s the Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science.
We need more like it, just as we need more silly interviews with talkshow hosts, and more serious casual lectures with an audience of fans. We need it all.
Thanks to both hosts who were fun and friendly, and asked some good questions many people would have asked in their position. Thanks for getting Brian on.
And thanks also to Brian for being an excellent public communicator and giving everyone time, regardless of where they’re coming from. And doing it with a smile and while having fun, too.
This episode will have got many listeners thinking, or even going on to proactive learn about amazing things they might otherwise not have, had it not been organised and published here.
here here
U had to ruin it didnt you ? ...
Pink shirt t++t is an irrelevant, annoying c@@t. It really really just is that way.
You can edit the hosts out and the video does a better service to people. They do too many interruptions and poor follow ups comments and questions that add too much noise to Brian explanations and discussions. It drove me crazy.
@@machinarumthen go watch one of his lectures somewhere else.
I could listen to Brian all day. Thanks for posting.
Brian leads you gently into an understanding of science without hitting you over the head with it . . . unlike some others I could name.
There's great skill, in this case with a chunk of charisma, to explain complex issues with enough detail to mostly satisfy the curious, without losing anyone.
Now having listened to all of it, at least one of his hosts there sets that bar moderate at best 🤪
I had listened to tens of programs explaining Higgs Boson and in 1 minute Dr. Cox explained it better.
Holographic universe fascinating. Wish they’d asked more questions on this
@@georgebennett715 thank you that’s very kind
I loved the documentaries with Brian Cox.. I see this guy on UA-cam, I click like
@8:55 Mr. Pink Shirt's greatest contribution to this interview.
How does Brian maintain that constant smiley face? I tried it and its damn hard.
please be careful professor, take care and watch your physical step ,we need you around, you bring light into our dark world ,thank you ❤️
Brian Cox is a LEGEND!!!
The interviewer is just thick
Yeah his mate in the pink shirt is winding me up. People are here for themselves and their egos and it's just pathetic.. honestly, how can you be so full of yourself whilst talking to Brian Cox? Anyway Mr. I HAVE A ROLEX AND LISTEN TO MY WAY OF TALKING made a few of us leave.
Professor Cox really know his stuff and know how to make us know his stuff
The new carl sagan
10:10 the most important thing one can accept. It gives us the scope...the willingness to learn
Ruined by the "common man" in the pink shirt. Why T F do all these modern science discussions need a court jester/Muppet to represent "us"? We don't need to be told what to think. Just why? Why was he there?
What a waste of everyone's time, especially Cox's
He is a champion educator, and i think you would agree, he brings people from the fringes of science to at least a steadfast understanding of the subject, hes a man to admire, not to necessarily ridicule because he wore a "pink shirt". if thats all you got from this ,please wear a white etc. colour and do it better, are you looking at the petson and, perhaps, not the message?
@@stephenraven5339 what?? I was referring to the planted "common layman" not Brian. Brian wasn't the guy wearing the pink shirt ffs. Pay attention. Yes, Brian is a great populariser and my point is that we don't need a bloke playing the "sorry bruv, I don't understand all this fizziks stuff. I don't geddit. " shit. It's ridiculous.
@@joeking4206 I agree. The pink shirt guy keeps on interrupting and it really ruins the flow of this. Brian will be expounding on some complex stuff and pink short blurts in and ruins the thread of what Brian is saying. His role is idiotic and he brings nothing to this.
Guy in pink is a tool
The large scale structure of space time, one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read. It was great bedtime reading for my kids. And now it is free to download. Highly recommended.
I just rabbitholed myself in to a 2h reading stint after your recommendation. But I am not sure if we’re talking the same book, it’s full of formulas that aren’t really kids material I guess. Atleast not for kids like I was.. I found this here Hawking, S., & Ellis, G. (1973). The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511524646
Pinky and the Brain in the flesh, minus any world taking.
Brian Cox is best on his own. Great storyteller similar to Neil Degrasse Tyson 👍, They draw you into the unknown of space explaining it in a way we can understand!! TY BRIAN👍
TYSM I love science (I even have won the best scientist in my year in school) and I think that professor Cox is amazing me and my dad love to watch to his documentaries specially about the universe and us tysm for this, I like to listen to podcasts when shoe polishing for cadets
Congrats! Stick with it! Science is fun and rewarding 🥹
I can't wait for an interview with Eric and Bryan!
I was gonna throw shade at the interviewers for being tool bags until I realized that trying to say ANYTHING OF MEANING after Professor Cox speaks is virtually impossible... The man just had a charisma and way with words that leaves me surprisingly satiated yet contently dumbfounded..
Always a joy to listen to Brian Cox
I have no idea who the hosts are on this channel.
The guy in the pink top should either learn a bit about the topic prior to the interview or stop interrupting with inane comments.
He also made an amazing pre-sup that God exists near the beginning!
Prof Cox does a great mini-course in the fundamentals of astrophysics. Amazing, well done.
Brian Cox makes us smarter
Finally a new high quality Brian Cox video. Great for, cheers guys!
This guy really seems like he would make learning fun, I wish there were more teachers like him.
It's such a shame that Professor Cox was interviewed on this 'show' where at least one of the interviewers had absolutely no clue what questions to ask and even less about the answers given.
Professor Brian Cox is an extremely accomplished physicist who, in my humble opinion, would be better suited to a more scientific based environment of questioning.
The purpose of science communicators is to make science interesting to a non-scientific audience. This is mostly achieved by giving talks/being questioned in non-scientific environments.
Not everyone has the same level of comprehension but everyone can appreciate science to some capacity. Not all talks with Brian Cox would run smoothly because some folks are alien to the topics he covers.
The guy (Jax Jones) is a DJ I believe. Imagine if all music composers made music available only for people who studied music and know how to write music and play some form of instrument? Lol that's synonymous you saying he should only be present on science shows.
Trust me Brian being on this show has created new science enthusiasts from this channel's core followers.
@@PostControlla yep, took the words out of. it's what makes cox that extra bit spec.
Brian's great quality is being able to bring the biggest and most complex things in the universe to the average person but even Brian didn't stand a chance with that dude in the pink
Cox's greatest talk. Either you are a scientist who is comfortable to say I don't know but try to find out, or you are afraid and just make something up to fill the void, which leads you directly to religion.
This is an excellent interview. Been waiting for new Brian Cox material :)
When put on the spot, he hasn’t a clue, where Brian Green is the personification of pure genius and of cause the USA have the genius that is Laurence Krauss Sorry Brian Cox is third rate compared to the above two!.. Mind you Cox isn’t bad for an ex keyboard player in a third rate pop band called De Ream! 😂😂👍
Great chat lads.
I'd love to have a personal conversation with Brian.. he's the only physicist that can explain things in a way I understand them..
Check out, Brian Green, Neil De Grass Tyson and a few other-mainly American physicists and Astro physicists! The Above two mentioned are absolutely incredible educators on the Cosmos and explain it beautiful! Brian Cox is a great fan of them both as well! They real are in a league of their own!!
…that you know of. Shawn, Carol, and Brian Greene have a similar speech and cadence you may enjoy. NDT can come off annoying, and certainly not soothing to many. Taki.
I enjoyed this immensely. So much, that I played it twice.
Conversation gets ruined everytime the the bald guy speaks. It's like everyone is watching this in awe of Brian and even the first host is entertaining intelligent converstion and the BANG, bald guy opens his mouth and we change course to lala land where Brian has to suddenly switch to explaining reality to a kid. Only here for Brian now.
I'm from Denmark and I will never forget what happened at Roskilde during the Pearl Jam concert, it was so sad. Much was done after the accident on June 30, 2000 to prevent this from happening again. It is very sad that such a tragedy repeats itself, when there are things that can be done to prevent it.
“then you have various religions with creation myths” was the best line
and how it turned every religious wanna-believe-rather-than-know buffoon, including the one in a pink shirt, into full defense mode. 😂
And I was reading Space, Aliens and Assholes. It’s too early, I didn’t wake up yet.
Really enjoyable interview.
...if they'd only let the man finish a thought.
Brian Cox is a sci-fi writer, and an enchanter. You are enchanted by the way he speaks and of the things he says, so you cannot cope with the fact that it doesn't represent reality.
Exactly, it's all theory and not science at all. Tens of billions of years is not observable or proven. We can barely preserve records of the past 500 years. I was watching a documentary on wildlife, you will hear them admit that there was an intelligent creator. They'll use "mother nature" "as nature intended" etc. But they'll never say as God intended.
Funny religion get ridiculed for belief in a creator but "science" is okay believing in aliens (ie demonic entities, familiar spirits). Hypocrites.
That's a full paragraph of saying absolutely fucking nothing.
Science and the truth. All that matters.
I keep hearing Einstein being referred to as a Master Reference for all thing space related, while realising he died ~ 2-1/2 years before we put anything up into space!
He was famous for imagining images of physical actions of matter with applied physics, which we have the use of modern computer based graphics to demonstrate, all such technology evolving way after his time, though there were Artistic Impressions sketched out to assist descriptions of.
I love listening to Dr Cox, his explanations are so eloquent, articulate and relatable, but I had to turn this off because 👚 guy was so inarticulate and always interrupting with some irrelevant non sequitur.
Very unprofessional. This can't be his job, surely
Exactly my thoughts. I switched to anoter interview after some minutes thanks to Mr. Pink
The conversation on "the unknown" was brilliant.
I personally am not scared or fearful of the unknown.
It confuses me as to why people fear the unknown as unknown is complete lack of information of observation, reported experience, assumptions and plausibility/ possibility and immagination.
Fear of unknown is an individuals inability to seperate the ego driven self imposed acceptance of ones meaning / uniqueness to a complete external acceptance that ones life in the physical world / universe is so small due to the enormous immensities of the unknown universe that an individuals ability to accept their life without knowing or understanding certain aspects goes completely against the cultural, philosophical or spiritual meaning ones ego places on oneself as a safety net to the thought of their own demise.
You are you no matter what specifications you impose on yourself to justify your existence. You are you no matter how singular or selfish you think just to exist.
Release The Ego, Extend your consciousness past linear time and free your mind and accept the empathetic universe as you are the universe and the universe is you whether alive or not.
4:10 I have never thought of that! That is so interesting, and totally true. It's kind of like death. Nobody is worried about the billions of years that passed by before they were born, but a lot of people worry about not existing in the future. It's kind of the same but reversed. An infinite past makes us uncomfortable but an infinite future doesn't, that is so weird ^^ excellent point.
I think that the 13.8 billion years that I didn’t exist are far more concerning than the eternity that spans out after my death, that’s because once you have existed you can never “unexist”, said another way, imagine far in the future time travel is mastered, a time traveler coming back to 2023 could meet me, have a conversation with me etc, because in 2023 I am alive, so in a way you never die, you just cease to travel along the arrow of time into the future, but in the past you’re still there alive and kicking 😄
PS I know that travelling backwards in time is theoretically impossible, but lots of possible things were once “theoretically impossible” 👍
@@1234567marks - Once you've been dead and gone long enough... Once there's no one left who remembers you... Once all record of you is lost... You effectively never existed.
Seriously, think about all of the people who have lived and died before you that are simply unknown now and never will be again.
Who are they? Or more correctly, who WERE they?
Oh, and by the way, the Vulcan Science Ministry has indeed determined that time travel is impossible. 😉
@@guarddog318 c’mon now GD, since when has existence had anything to do with people knowing of or remembering you?, existence at a point in time is just fact and doesn’t require a witness!, (is that a tree I hear falling in the forest? 😄), anyway, good news on that Vulcan research 👍
@@1234567marks - It's not about witnesses it's about proof.
@@guarddog318 let’s have a think, the earth existed for billions of years before life existed, could we then question it’s existence prior to life, ie it’s existence not being experienced by a sentient being?, I would argue that on the balance of probabilities it did exist, regardless of being experienced/remembered/forgotten, so in my opinion existence has no relationship to experience.
Brian cox is BAREEEEEE CLEAN SHAVED !!!
Had to stop the podcast once Ali G started talking
😂😂😂
When you think of the size of the universe, light travels painfully slow.
Professor cox doesn’t just know about the collider, he worked on it. The interviewers are uneducated n frustrating
Brian Cox needs to be knighted. Sir Brian
“Just like you but a little bit more sciencey “
Brian Cox teaching 2 blokes that know nothing about the subject and them coming away slightly more intelligent. Well done Brian.
And that's why people say everything is moving away from everything because the universe is expanding but matter moves independently of space and expansion will not effect the matter in space it will expand around the matter in space and independent of it. So space can still expand all it wants because space doesn't have mass?
It does effect mass, just not more significantly than the strong and weak nuclear forces. It effects light because it doesn't have mass, and therefore doesn't have those forces keeping it from being effected. Which is why things far away appear red shifted.
Space doesn’t expand inside of galaxies near as much as it does between them. Gravity essentially “pulls” space/time together, preventing the expansion inside regions strongly affected by gravity
Come on! Don't diss the pink shirt. His naivety elevated the conversation. He was asking the questions us mere mortals would have asked.
A great show!
This dude in the pink single handedly ruined this interview
Black holes are not a singularity as they have push pull. There’s two black holes in the centre of our Galaxy and they, like all black holes in the centre of the spiral galaxies, determine the physics of our galaxy.
This means that the physics in each galaxy varies slightly.
Always a pleasure
Good question.
what a woderful thing, to amaze.
Kooks suitably gobsmacked.. Personally I conclude from Penrose's work that we and the entire physical cosmos are on a cycle - like a washing machine.
*This text could be the reason why the Universe came into existence, just for this text....*
Solipsism 😉
Unlikely
This interview made me appreciate Joe Rogan. Even though he doesn't have scientific background he know what questions to ask and what not to apparently.
Someone reupload and edit pink Chavvy guy out pls plssssssssssssss
Cringe
*Brian Cox:* proceeds to explain in clear detail, space, physics, and astronomy in general.
*Pink Ali-G:* wAiT WuÁt!?💥💢🙈🙊🙉💢💥💨
Couldn't finish. Fellow in the pink shirt must be a blast at parties. For the love of sanity.
his dad really ought to have stayed with him and helped hi, with his manners, kids today eh.
They are angels 😇