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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Mar 20, 2011 20:04:40 GMT
My mother is addicted. She can't get enough of this buck toothed young upstart. Enough of me. I believe Mr Brian Cox makes science very interesting. The human face of a bewildering predicament.
The universe is bewildering, but a predicament which gives us everything.
Only we can destroy all we have.
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Post by Weyland on Mar 20, 2011 20:50:12 GMT
My mother is addicted. She can't get enough of this buck toothed young upstart. Enough of me. I believe Mr Brian Cox makes science very interesting. The human face of a bewildering predicament. The universe is bewildering, but a predicament which gives us everything. Only we can destroy all we have. That Brian Cox: "This is St Tropez! There's some sand!! It came from Alpha Centauri!!!. We all did!!!! There's some more sand over there!!!!! Next week I'll be in the Seychelles, looking at some sand from the Andromeda Galaxy!!!!!!!" THE Brian Cox: a great actor from Dundee. |
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Mar 20, 2011 20:56:15 GMT
My mother is addicted. She can't get enough of this buck toothed young upstart. Enough of me. I believe Mr Brian Cox makes science very interesting. The human face of a bewildering predicament. The universe is bewildering, but a predicament which gives us everything. Only we can destroy all we have. That Brian Cox: "This is St Tropez! There's some sand!! It came from Alpha Centauri!!!. We all did!!!! There's some more sand over there!!!!! Next week I'll be in the Seychelles, looking at some sand from the Andromeda Galaxy!!!!!!!" THE Brian Cox: a great actor from Dundee. LOL. Be fair Weyland. It's science for dummies at least. I didn't know there was sand from other galaxies on our beaches btw.  But you are a degree or two cleverer than me. |
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Post by Patrick on Mar 21, 2011 0:12:09 GMT
Found his voice too annoying so couldn't watch - In fact he is annoying. He was even annoying when he turned up with Andrew Marr earlier in the week. Acccording to some comments I've seen - despite being a Professor, he hasn't published much and isn't particularly outstanding in his field as it is. Still, on the programme I see he did a lot of standing on rock outcrops and things, so he's made up for that.
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 21, 2011 7:07:31 GMT
I like the man and his voice and love the locations - I could watch it for the scenery alone.
But science? No, it isn't teaching me a lot. Hardly surprising, given the timescale involved; it would take more than an hour on a Sunday evening to help me get to grips with Einstein.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 21, 2011 16:53:26 GMT
He's not so much teaching me as re-enthusing me - I knew about the heat death of the universe (60s-70s SF is all about Entropy, and there is a really good story called The Heat Death of the Universe, which is not about the heat death of the universe at all); but his description of what it would really mean in the 1st programme was scary. It was like the feeling you get from some SF, though - that sense of wonder thing It's like if someone tells you the plot of a scary story and you think, oh, yes, that's scary, and then someone tells you a scary story properly - the difference between those two. I like him as well. He might not have published a lot of original work, but he is good at explaining stuff, which is just as important: you need someone who understands things and can explain it to people who don't - can't - have the same knowledge. He has lots of moments like this:  |
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Post by everso on Mar 21, 2011 19:52:57 GMT
The man's too bloody young for a kick off. Surely professors are supposed to be ancient?
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Post by rjpageuk on Mar 21, 2011 22:52:00 GMT
The man's too bloody young for a kick off. Surely professors are supposed to be ancient? He is 43! |
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Post by everso on Mar 22, 2011 0:21:06 GMT
Rubbish! He's barely 15 surely?
43 IS young! Tsk!
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 22, 2011 7:39:18 GMT
Eve, wait until you go into hospital and mistake your surgeon for a school work experience trainee, as happened to someone I know!
Adventurer Bear Grylls, Knife Thrower Todd Abrams, Latin Singer Juanes, Tennis Player Rafael Nadal… What do all these men have in common? They all appear in USA-based People Magazine’s A-Z of sexiest men in the world, along with none other than ATLAS’s own Professor Brian Cox.
Taking the Q-slot, Quantum Physicist extraordinaire Brian works on ATLAS, teaches at Manchester University in the UK, and has carved himself out a successful media career, explaining particle physics with characteristic enthusiasm and clarity to radio, television, and lecture audiences around the world.
In the wake of this recent accolade, we caught up with Brian, to find out how he feels about being Mr Q: Quantum physicist.
“I think that’s why I’m in the list you know,” he laughs. “If it was A, it would be actor, or P could be popstar. But Q? What else could it be?” Modesty aside though, People Magazine is one of the biggest in the USA, and Brian has already experienced the effects of his new-found status:
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Mar 22, 2011 14:31:53 GMT
Rubbish! He's barely 15 surely? 43 IS young! Tsk! The same age as me ish. He doesn't look it. I thought early thirties. |
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Post by everso on Mar 22, 2011 18:41:51 GMT
He's a child. It should be against the law to be a professor until you're at least 60.  |
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Mar 22, 2011 19:38:16 GMT
Everso's professor...  Couldn't find a pic of an old professor...so instead some stupid student in a bald cap and glasses. Amazingly a total lack of caricature professors on Google images. They must all be young and beautiful now.  |
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 22, 2011 21:32:46 GMT
He's a child. It should be against the law to be a professor until you're at least 60. I'd love to be a professor. Spend my day giving lectures to students and reading books and writing stuff. That would be brilliant. |
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Post by everso on Mar 22, 2011 23:09:13 GMT
He's a child. It should be against the law to be a professor until you're at least 60. I'd love to be a professor. Spend my day giving lectures to students and reading books and writing stuff. That would be brilliant. You're not old enough. You're a mere babe. |
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Post by Weyland on Mar 22, 2011 23:09:21 GMT
He's a child. It should be against the law to be a professor until you're at least 60. I'd love to be a professor. Spend my day giving lectures to students and reading books and writing stuff. That would be brilliant. What subject, if any, would you specialise in, Riot? Me? AI Software and/or Natural Language Processing and/or Hacking Bankers' Bank Accounts with Malice Aforethought. |
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Post by everso on Mar 22, 2011 23:11:34 GMT
Flower arranging, me.  |
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Post by riotgrrl on Mar 23, 2011 7:40:48 GMT
I'd love to be a professor. Spend my day giving lectures to students and reading books and writing stuff. That would be brilliant. What subject, if any, would you specialise in, Riot? Me? AI Software and/or Natural Language Processing and/or Hacking Bankers' Bank Accounts with Malice Aforethought. I think I'd lecture on politics. It's a subject that you can't really be wrong in (unlike, say, sums or a foreign language). Really the term 'political scientist' is oxymoronic. |
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 23, 2011 15:24:20 GMT
Rubbish! He's barely 15 surely? 43 IS young! Tsk! The same age as me ish. He doesn't look it. I thought early thirties. Well, you are old enough to realise that your new avatar is quite inappropriate for a refined board such as ours. It makes me come over all |
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Mar 23, 2011 16:25:25 GMT
The same age as me ish. He doesn't look it. I thought early thirties. Well, you are old enough to realise that your new avatar is quite inappropriate for a refined board such as ours. It makes me come over all My apologies. It is removed. The mid-day sun I'm afraid. |
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