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I was slightly disappointed it wasn't the pocky faced scottish actor brian cox. My mate went to school with the sciency one, in Oldham of all places. Says he has grown into his teeth nicely
One of the best programmes in a long time and another reason to pay the license fee. It's truly ignited an interest which has been lying dormant inside me. I can't get enough of it at the moment. Pricing up telescopes now and interested in launching a weather balloon into near space with some home made controller electronics on board (yes like that guy in the news last week and the Spanish students last year).
However, I have found myself having to watch the shows 2 or 3 times. Not because of how excellent the content is, but because I keep falling asleep during them! Something about the music and his voice just sends me off, no matter how fascinated I am in the content. Is it just me?
Something about the music and his voice just sends me off, no matter how fascinated I am in the content. Is it just me?
It's not just you.
I think he is wonderful.. He demystifies complicated concepts and helps people to grasp thorny problems (like time slowing down) because we think "well if a bloke with his accent can understand it..."
In his programme on gravity a couple of years ago he played (the otherwise unlistenable) John Mayer's "Gravity" which has the most sublime bluesy-note-bending guitar intro I know.
A waste of the licence payers money 👿 As Rocketdog pointed out this northener is just getting free jollys to Hawaii, South America, Artic circle and the Namib desert just to show us some sand dunes. He could have gone to Southport for that.
Its about time the Licence fee TAX was scrapped!
Oh sorry wrong forum.
The best thing on television at the moment. Brian Cox is excellent, explaing complicated concepts simply and showing enthusiasm for his subject while being slightly nerdy.
I now know how people worked out that the Earth wasnt the centre of the universe and what gravitational resonance is. Very useful knowledge
If you want proper cutting edge physics broadcasting, check
http://webcast.cern.ch/lhcfirstphysics/
Live webcast from the Hadron collider - they're gonna cross the beams today... we're all doomed!
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Brian Cox f*cking loves physics[/url]
He's on Twitter, talking about CERN today. He just posted this:
If any one else says "block hole" today I'm going to come round and chin em
😆
The programme has re-awakened the enthusiasm for physics that I had as a 17 year old A-Level student, rather than the jaded 30-something I an now.
It would be great for interested children.
Although I am aware of much of the content, I've learned a few things and it is very well produced.
Get rid of BBC 3 & BBC 4 and put more good programmes like this on BBC2.
he also likes wearing normal clothes and hiding at the back, he certainly doesn't look too comfortable fitting in with his band mates 😆
Time to wheel out my favourite science quote ever. Brian Cox, quoted in the Telegraph:
"Anyone who thinks the Large Hadron Collider will destroy the world is a tw4t."
(Not aimed at you thepurist :o) )
we're all doomed!
Are we doomed?
Yes, we're doomed.
is it me or does the LHC TV presenter sound HOT (i can't see the pictures)
...it just struck me this afternoon that Prof. Brian Cox is pretty much to Physics (and Science) what Charge bikes are to cycling (and MTBing). 🙂
I think that pretty much explains why I (and others, it would appear) find him a little annoying.
The series has had its good moments, don't get me wrong, but there's just [i]far[/i] too much style over substance and mindless repetition of naive statements, for it to be entirely watchable.
When I was a kid, it was programmes like Horizon, Equinox, Tomorrow's World and those weird and wonderful OU programmes at 6am on a Sunday morning that got me excited about science. I'm pretty sure Prof. Cox's programme, as it is, would've just bored me to tears. Each to their own I suppose, but I just think the BBC could do so much better. Instead of catering for the now expected 30 second attention span of its media-saturated viewers, it could [i]actually[/i] present programmes which gave its viewers a little more substance and less [i]presenter-as-a-personality[/i] based travelogue fluff. 🙂
It's Sunday night edutainment... of course the style is similar to The Blue Planet or similar.
In fact, if you remember [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage ]Cosmos[/url] from 30 years ago, it's pretty similar. But with better graphics and accent 😉
That series called Universe years ago was better imo..
I can still remember the way Carl Sagan used to mangle his words like Loyd Grossman
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