Brian Cox in conversation with Robyn Williams | The Quantum Universe | Physics
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- Eventually, everything that can happen does happen. Brian Cox discusses this and other probabilities which can all be found in his book The Quantum Universe. Themes: 00:33 - Is it true that everything that can happen does happen? 05:35 - Public response to The Quantum Universe
07:08 - The Higgs particle - the most important discovery in our lifetime
11:45 - The Infinite Monkey Cage - mixing science and comedy
14:26 - The importance of science in popular culture
19:08 - Filming the BBC series on evolutionary biology
24:40 - Attitude to filming for TV and why scientists need to learn to deal with the media
Guest: Brian Cox
Professor of Particle Physics, University of Manchester, UK
www.manchester.ac.uk/research/...
Publication: The Quantum Universe
Author: Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw
Publisher: Penguin UK
www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Book/Book... - Věda a technologie
What an excellent interview Mr Williams, you let Professor Cox say what he wanted to say and didn't interrupt him all the time or insult the intelligence of your listener as so many interviewers do. A good job well done.
"Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture" - so so true. Love Brian Cox!
I love Brian's enthusiasm for his subject. I can listen to him discuss and describe physics any time.
Prof. Brian Cox is the man.
brian cox is a truly remarkable person. it is interesting to see that scientists are very personable and some of the most humane people there are. they exude a level of kindness that I think is inherent in knowledge making the experience of being human most admirable. they display the nobility of simply being a person
Science is indeed the foundation of our society, thanks to your efforts more people are coming to understand that.
The last 2 minutes is so insightful everyone can learn from this.
I think I could listen to Brian all day. Really interesting guy.
Shit this is so interesting. Fascinating. I need to find a way to start learning more. It almost makes insomnia worthwhile.
+helenp7 IKR here for the same reason, Insomnia sucks but this is a great treatment,
even if i can't sleep after it i have learned something.
Just an other example of how good this guys really is. I love listening to him and he's easy to understand. Way to go Brian and thank you for another video.
That last part about not calling people idiots is clutch! Something I gotta work on.
Yeah we need more science on TV .As a physician I loved that "in biology there is always an exception" :)
I love to hear Brian speak. I would like to go to one of his shows one day!
I could listen to him talk all day.
The professor with the perpetual smile
Do you put that down to a healthy diet, three orgasms per day - or, his high cheek-bones? I'll have what he's having.
Brian's such a nice and interesting man I'd love to pick his brain. If I could ask him one question, anything at all, I think I'd ask him if he is constantly smirking or is that just his face
+Peter Hay < That's what black holes do, they put a permanent smile on faces... :)
It just shows that he still has that child's excitement and curiosity for his work and science in general, and it's absolutely amazing! You can see his eyes shine as he talks about scientific topics, its just amazing how he genuinely is fascinated about these things. Hope people like him will exist in the future as well. We are in desperate need for people like him.
i would ask him how acurate is quantom physics
What a profoundly important and interesting man is Brian Cox.
Watching this at work on nightshift, a colleague glanced at what I was watching and said " I see you're watching some Cox."
Everyone's head popped over their desks like meerkats and I had a hard time trying to explain myself.
Brian is the smiliest person I've ever seen :D I love it
Love you Brian.! Great interview.
Thank you!
If only I'd had teachers like Brian Cox,, but then perhaps it would have been a waste, for I was such a dill.
This genius was in an AMAZING melodic rock band called dare. Look it up.
Band was called D-Ream
Stephen Ingle HE was in both dare and d-ream
I do love a good dose of sense and reason.
Fantastic interview, great questions and answers that leave me totally inspired by science. Thanks to both of you for bringing lay people like me along with you on our mutual adventure of life moving into the future.
I love Brian Cox!
"There are a lot of descriptive books about quantum mechanics, so that's not what we set out to do. We set out to write a book that actually explained the theory as deeply as we could".
Thank you, I am now interested in buying it.
Brian is my hero
Excellent....
like his mind and I liked him in the band he was in.. back in the day
e is a concept Phi is visualization and we can switch gear using dimensions of 10 and higher or negative dimensions. And log determines time. And i is the variable parameters within each dimensions.
I would truly love to know what Brian thinks about the Van Allan belts and space travel. does anyone know where I could contact him.
It's all too much for my unscientific mind. I hold these people in the highest regard for their scientific knowledge.
You got to love The Cox!
I was still 100% convinced that was the back of Robbin Williams head, and then when I saw his face, for half a second it was still Robbin hahahaa
All this for eight cents a day ... ABC RN is fucking beautiful. Thanks.
Very Informative, great interview, I hope our PM sees it too. :-)
I believe everything Brian Cox tells me. he is way more than the rock star of psychics. love to be in his class.
Making science accessible instead of sheltered to the academic few and encouraging others to build a bridge to understanding that science is necessary to society.
"some bits might be hard, and you might have to THINK"
OH THE HORROR
Rutger Hauer interviews Brian Cox
doesnt his cheeks get tired of smiling. he never stops smiling!!!
he's such a hero
I was disappointed to find out that this was not Robbin Williams :( That name is false advertisement :P
Ah, the small difference between Robyn and Robin...it probably is false advertisement though...our fault.
Yeah but he's dead.
same here ;-(
go back to school. please.
ABC RN
There is no need to apologize. That's his fault.
To me, the most unexpected, "weirdest" requirement of entanglement is that the state transition for all members of the entangled set must be simultaneous for all observers independent of relativistic reference frame. And, location-independent universal simultaneity is proven to be impossible in any spacetime consistent with Relativity. Non-simultaneity is a proven fact.
what a nice guy
Brain Cox!
Wait. So the Highs theory is a general theory in which all cases cannot coexist in nature? Which is why we have to carry out experiments to see which case applies to nature or if any case applies to nature at all. Interesting.
I'd always be smiling if I was that intelligent!
hehe this is candid
Got the book.
The title was very misleading and that host needs to change his name and also needs to stop interrupting such a brilliant individual.
the man is a genious i like him becouse he does not say everything is fact till proven
he's a smart man.
See the problem is that currently the Higgs mechanism only accounts for why electrons and other leptons have mass. However, currently most of the mass of the universe (and you for that matter) comes from the energy in quarks. Even though we know where the mass comes from... we don't know why mass like other mass, aka why do they pull to one another. This video might explain a bit better (the mass bit not the attraction) : /watch?v=Ztc6QPNUqls I hope this helps a bit
Nice interview.
Now to look up 'non-equilibrium thermodynamics'.
Good luck with that, young Hog ... get back soon with all the info.
Surely only without mass can a particle appear simultaneously anywhere in the known universe, because with mass it can be quantified and given a value............so we are into the unknown area where dark energy is hypothesized......bring on the LHC!!!
where is mork?
Awesome video. But the Y in Robyn Williams screwed me a bit.
Anyone else feel like that host was interrupting Brian a bit?
his eyes are getting smaller and his cheekbones and lips are getting bigger and shinier
Hahaha
Shit i thought it was Robin Williams. I was like "wait.."
You didn't quite understand that video. the Higgs mechanism does explain the mass of quarks. its the mass of the gluons that accounts for most mass in an atom. gluons are massless particles in the sense that they don't interact with the Higgs field, but because of Einstein's energy/mass equivalence they do have mass, we do not need any additional mechanism to explain it.
but all that has nothing to do with gravity Anyways. that's another problem entirely
good choice ;)
"Disorder" doesn't that concept only have relevance to conscious entities? It's only consciousness that can appreciate an ordered structure, say a wall. As far as the universe is concerned there's just matter and space-time interacting with one another.
All things decay and eventually when the universe becomes cold because the last star has burnt all of it's fuel the black holes will also decay. This would be a complete disorder of all things and subatomic particles will be dispersed in an ever expanding vacuum of empty space.
Search Entropy
Brian certainly has a mass appeal ( no Higgs joke there ) but I do wonder, with all the knowledge gained from LHC etc, how come we still cannot unify gravity into the standard model?, if this model does so well in predicting the macroscopic world eg the Chandraskar limit. Just makes me think that glossing over this indicates we dont have a complete picture of how nature works so I would temper the claims made thus far until we can achieve that consolidation
I'm worried if i read Brian's book i will mess up its quantum mass :)
"Look! You are an idiot!" LOL!!
As a teacher, I feel Like a moron...
Science should be based on reason alone, but on empirical evidence
oh shit i thought it said with robin williams lool
not quite true mass of some leptons such as electrons come from the higgs mechanism but most mass come from quarks. I am not an expert in this but maybe this video will help some: /watch?v=Ztc6QPNUqls
Fuck he's the man.
I'd pay good money to see Brian Cox frowning and in a fit of rage...
Only because science cannot prove a negative [ie everything that can happen does happen]
do smart people like brian cox do normal stuff like watch friends and two and a half men ?
Do not ask such an offensive question about brilliant minds..... Now excuse me while I play flappy bird
bboyspinz I lol'd.
Thumbs up if you came for Robin Williams.
RoadKillzine pretty much, not like Robin would interview Brian anyway
Was anyone else disappointed to find this wasn't Robyn Williams the actor/comedian? How good would that have been.
Actually I wouldn't have bothered watching if it was ROBIN WIlliams the comedian. I only want to watch science interviews conducted by ROBYN Williams the experienced science presenter. Brush up on spelling and you may experience less disappointment in life...
Susan DA finally someone who gets it, I'm his grandson btw
Thought this was going to be Brian Cox talking to Robin Williams... This wasn't as crazy as I'd geared myself up for :P
He might be because everything that can happen does happen.
Thank god & the Flying Spaghetti Monster that robin williams died !!!
The Joel Osteen of Physics.
How many came here thinking it was Robin Williams? :P
I'm trying to watch stargazing :(
DO, no. BE, yes.With a nearly infinite amount of time and energy to be it in. Then you get to share this data with the entire universe as Hawking data. Isn't sharing important? Don't be stingy, colid your verb!
part of his human costume
Is he always smiling?
Like the song goes...
Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces... Cox tells the truth!!
Bill A Well put .
MichaelKingsfordGray Why yes sir, it's called the British stiff upper lip... hehe
+Right Time. Yes, three orgasms a day has that effect ... shine on.
+Right Time Prof. Cox is a man who likes his job. It is his hobby. Don't you feel and hear how it sings in his speech?
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Science is popular, Science that hasn't been dumbed down is popular. Yet ABC TV shows 1/2 an hour of science about 20 times a year that's been dumbed down to the point it's actually wrong. Aunty, the way is clear, a decent science program, at least a couple of hours of content a week that's produced at a level suited to the *interested* and *enthusiastic* layman.
He'd probably think you'd been sent to him by conspiracy theorists! (Who he's not a fan of)
He's a great thinker,
But its a shame that modern day science has limited itself, become a religion of its own. With priests, and FAITH. Yes faith.
Just look into renormalization and all the ramifications of that error.
Also, when they realized our universe was finely tuned to support life instead of realizing the awesomeness of that-they turned away from it and came up with the multiverse theory, and how there are an infinite number of universes, so its not surprising that ONE would be this way. Well does that sound like the simplest answer to you?
It sounds like they discovered something amazing and became afraid that their entire view of reality would change
Dan Notz Actually the multiverse is just a theory, no one is claiming it to be fact. That will always remain the difference between religion and science ... that science will never say with 100% certainty that a theory is true until it's actually proven to be true.
And btw if one universe is able to spring into existence one could think that whatever is outside the universe has this capability of "creating" a universe.
So if it inevitably creates one universe because anything that can happen will happen, then why not create more? Maybe even an infinite number.
It actually seems more unlikely to me that only one universe would come into existence .. i mean why just one ? or better yet how just one?
It doesn't seem like a far fetched idea to me but then again it's not something we know ... it's just one possibility we entertain .. the truth is we don't know and any real scientist would tell you the same ... we don't know ... that's honesty.
When
Think his cheek bones were broken in this video
this is where niel tyson got the idea for star talk... he stole brians concept lol
He's a very likable and accomplished presenter, but I often feel he's a little closed minded about possibility.
/watch?v=T69TOuqaqXI
I often feel that way when watching scientists telling us "this is how it is".
I'm forty eight and I can count a few times that I've heard or read that "scientists now know that the age of the universe is..." only to have that revised a few years later.
All of that changed for me last year when I saw Brian Cox appear on the Colbert Report. Steven interviewed Brian in his usual zany style and asked him "what if you're wrong?" Brian's answer was "that would be great!"
Charles C Science changes its opinion when the facts show that it was wrong about something. That is reason to take science more seriously rather than less seriously.
I think your disconnect comes from science journalism when they report on individual studies about medical research. Individual pieces of research are meaningless on their own. What matters is follow up research by independent groups (something editors don't want to cover because it's not "new(s)"), and more importantly, the consensus opinion of scientists from the relevant field. Science reporters should be reporting on changes in consensus opinion instead of individual pieces of research, because that's what's important.
Thus you are told in one story that eating more of X is bad for you, then a few weeks later you read another story about another piece of research saying X is good for you. This is normal in science, but the reporters don't report on all the research on a given topic together, they just report on individual studies and present the results of those studies as fact when in fact each published paper is just a piece of a bigger puzzle.
Far too many scientists are.However,I'm not sure Brian Cox is the best example of this...
JanjayTrollface I really like the guy and he's far from the best example of closed mindedness for sure. In truth, he's probably seen as a rebel amongst his peers. I just wish he'd take that extra step. Peace Bro
yup... tv is dead. hello internet, hello youtube, hello netflix. on and on and on.
He's really not a very good physicist. He's just popular for some reason.
He is a professor of particle physics at Manchester Uni, he works at CERN and helped find the Higgs Particle. He a great Physicist, but remember his major is Particle Physics not Quantum Physics.
What are you basing your opinion on?
Marry me Brian?
such shiny cheeks
Take more time getting dressed Brian what sort of scientist does not know how to put his tshirt on the right way round
Not the Robin Williams I was hoping for…
:P
Yeah...it is kind of feminine. But, what's wrong with that? Mick Jagger was massively feminine....but he got more girls in the 60s and 70s than you(assuming you're a guy) and I have in our entire lives times ten. Overly masculine men are pretty damn gross imo.
Love Brian...but is it just me, or does he look like an android here?