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  • Professor Brian Cox: A Night with the Stars


    Professor Brian Cox: A Night with the Stars

    For one night only, Professor Brian Cox goes unplugged in a specially recorded programme from the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

    In his own inimitable style, Brian takes an audience of famous faces, scientists and members of the public on a journey through some of the most challenging concepts in physics.

    With the help of Jonathan Ross, Simon Pegg, Sarah Millican and James May, Brian shows how diamonds – the hardest material in nature – are made up of nothingness; how things can be in an infinite number of places at once; why everything we see or touch in the universe exists; and how a diamond in the heart of London is in communication with the largest diamond in the cosmos.

    Released 19 Dec, 2011. 60 min. TV documentary.

    Professor Brian Cox: A Night with the Stars, 5.0 out of 6 based on 5 ratings
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    • Cam

      This was honestly one of the best things you guys have uploaded. I loved every bit of it; it made my night.

    • Cam

      Wow, a lot of negativity in the comments on this one. This really surprised me; as someone who studies quantum mechanics, I didn’t find it simplistic at all. In fact, it gave me a whole new understanding of Heisenberg’s uncertainty (as being more related to size, and thus to number of particles, than to location per se…the smaller you get, the fewer particles you’re dealing with, and thus the more likely a quantum event is to occur…likewise, the smaller you get, the more precise your location gets)

      I dunno, maybe I’m biased, because it was lecturers like Brian Cox who got me interested in theoretical physics in the first place…he was (and still is) like, the Carl Sagan of my generation. Yeah he loves to hear himself talk; that’s because he has vastly interesting things to say! I, for one, loved this lecture. Thank you for sharing it; contrary to how it may appear from some of these comments, it does not go unappreciated!

    • Tyler

      Zzzzz…

      Professor Brian Cox loves the sound of his own voice lol

    • Cam

      Eighty-two billion two hundred million years.**

      Damn, major brainfart there. I was off my game.

    • Cam

      3 x 10 to the 29th / Six billion times the current age of our universe is:

      82200000000 years / Eighty-two billion eight hundred years. yikes…that’s how long it would take on average for a quantum event to affect that diamond…because all of its atoms have to have a quantum event in unison, which is extremely unlikely to happen. Individual particles do it all the time, but for every atom in a macro-sized object to do it all simultaneously is another story. Yet, it could happen at any moment… o.O

      Thanks for this one, docustorm. This was a great lecture. I liked the guy at the end saying it was almost exactly all about everything he thinks about on an everyday basis…lol I sort of feel the same way, although Brian certainly brings a unique take on it all.

      Although I disagree with Merry Xmas there for the most part; you sort of have to know Brian Cox and be familiar with the stuff he’s done to understand, he has a fairly cocky attitude towards ignorance of science. I don’t always agree with it, but I see where he’s coming from usually. But I did sort of wonder, this is a serious scientific forum and all of the guests seem to be non-scientists, let alone physicists (except for Professor Al-Khalili)? That was a bit odd, but meh…it was sort of aimed at the layman anyway so it doesn’t really bother me, but I was a little surprised that so few of the volunteers were scientists.

    • Merry Xmas

      Very simplistic and a bit irritating. Left a lot of questions unanswered. Presenter spent a lot of time make puerile jokes and attacking ‘New Age hippies’. Who? Okay, yeah, they really are the main problem for contemporary physics. Say, what? Also, I hadn’t a clue who the ‘star guests’ were. Who are these jerks? Felt I was looking in on a private party and it was not the sort of party I would want to attend. Blah.

      • Brennan

        Too simplistic. Barely scratches the surface and doesn’t really explain anything

      • Cam

        I hardly think one or two remarks constitutes “spending a lot of time”…and also, Charlie Brooker, the guy from Shaun of the Dead, Jim Al-Khalili, among others. I don’t even live in the UK and I’d heard of most of them…whatever. I think people dislike this for the wrong reasons