Brian Cox programmes

Greyduster

I thought the recent series on the solar system was particularly good. I am dumbstruck with awe at how far these modern spacecraft can travel now before they run out of steam and the data they send back. What scientific riches todays children have available to them now!

Me too.

Like some others I have to rewind to even partially understand. It's enough for me to get the gist of what he is saying, though, without understanding all the details. It helps that MrA is a mathematical engineer who also has a fascination for space and the solar system.

Llamedos13

I don’t know who he is but lately he has been on Prime advertising Uber Eats.

Ps the older one usually plays a baddie!

Llamedos13

I don’t know who he is but lately he has been on Prime advertising Uber Eats.

Wrong Brian Cox!

This is Professor Brian Cox, much younger than the actor.

I don’t know who he is but lately he has been on Prime advertising Uber Eats.

I thought the recent series on the solar system was particularly good. I am dumbstruck with awe at how far these modern spacecraft can travel now before they run out of steam and the data they send back. What scientific riches todays children have available to them now!

May Be, I think that popular science as per Brian Cox does not set out to explain but only to describe, which BC does rather well . To understand a proper scientific explanation one would have to be a proper scientist.

Thank god for the re-wind facility is all I can say, I have to keep going back over what he's said for it to sink in a bit better I do find it fascinating though

Do other people understand any of it?

Yes. He explains everything very well indeed (well, mostly!).

His voice is soporific, though, Auntieflo and I do have to concentrate hard!

DH loves his programmes. His voice just sends me to sleep.

I love Brian Cox’s programmes - never miss anything that comes on TV. In 2022 we went to see his live show, Horizons, at Sheffield Arena. It was sold out on every date and was absolutely mesmerising. Yes there was brain boggling maths and physics, and he has a very engaging way of explaining these things, but judging by the comments we heard on the way out, we weren’t the only ones who couldn’t get our heads around black holes and event horizons! He and his guest co-presenter were very funny though.

I’ve watched some of his programs and my brain just doesn’t retain most of what he’s explaining I think I’m getting it but then my brain gets overloaded and my concentration goes but I do enjoy his programs.

We saw him live at the Royal Opera House in London this summer. His talk was combined with classical music and was amazing. I'm sure I sort of understood what he was talking about at the time, but I'd struggle now to repeat any of it. Brian Cox is a particle physicist, so will have done experiments to observe how minute particles behave, They still behave in the same way as they did billions of years ago, but have come together to be many times more complex than they were all those years ago.
PS. I don't understand their work either. My partner is a professor of physics and I don't understand what he's on about half the time.