Brian Cox

@Adam_Phillips87 Thank you! I hope you enjoyed part 2 !

Half time at @ProfBrianCox presentation - Emergence. It's one of the most beautiful and profound presentations/lecture I've ever seen. It's inspiring, engaging and uplifting. To feel so small, unique, important, distant and close all at the same time. Incredible. #Emergence

@jeffcafe_ I don’t think they are persuasive at all - which is a shame - I would be delighted if our civilisation were part of a galactic community!

@ProfBrianCox I think you’re wrong. Recent UFO disclosures back me up.

My first Emergence show in Melbourne - this bit is me explaining why my guess is that we are the only civilisation in the Milky Way … although I would be delighted and relieved to be wrong :-)

@borisyeltzin No

@ProfBrianCox are you turning into Michio Kaku? asking for a frend.

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@ProfBrianCox Please add another London show that’s not 6pm on a weekday 😩

@knolloz I’m in Brisbane on the 30th but I’m not sure there are any tickets left …

@ProfBrianCox Please do a show in Brisbane 🙂 As you know an aeroplane will transport you up here quickly and I’m sure you would fill any venue here at short notice

@Zen78xx There are singularity theorems in classical GR (Hawking / Penrose) - but quantum gravity will be a different story of course.

@ProfBrianCox Thanl you for your answer! Why must it be a singularity? Does GR apply to the very burst of the Big Bang (or inflation)? Can the universe be "boilery"? Or "Scatterely"? Are we hard set on it coming from a singularity?

@ProfBrianCox Hi prof! Q: Do we know anything about the physics -at- the big bang? Not 0.000000002ms after, but -at- the big bang? If not, why not? Much obliged! <3 your work :) You got me into physics, as a 47 y/o...

Sunk cost fallacy as policy.

@ghotye @Horsesnhills Yep! Tonight :-)

@ProfBrianCox @Horsesnhills Your show is in Melbourne tonight though yeah? Tell me I didn’t mix up the year 😟

I was going to go hear @ProfBrianCox Sunday in Toronto. With the Jays playing, TFC (soccer) playing, highway closures, an inner city marathon, and a subway line closed for maintenance, it is impossible to get to. Better venues are available just outside the city btw.

It's Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday and in 1980 he faced questions from an audience of young viewers about his life and television career. Lesley Judd hosted the show, and Attenborough talked about making a connection with gorillas, and his concerns for the environment.

I had an enjoyable chat yesterday with ⁦@FergusonNews⁩ on ⁦@ABC⁩ …. Very much enjoying this sunny autumn in Australia at the moment :-) youtube.com/watch?v=O4J298…

@JonnyRollups It follows from the equivalence of all inertial frames that there is no such thing as absolute space. Again, see my book on black holes, or my earlier book Why Does E=mc^2 - available from all good book shops ;-)

@ProfBrianCox where is the earth moving to?

The thread below is an example both of mind numbing idiocy and why on-line content is essentially useless because of A.I. and / or old fashioned ‘creative’ editing. The physics here is that to a good approximation over a short space of time, the surface of the Earth is an inertial frame of reference in Newtonian Mechanics. If you want to, you can measure the rotation over short timescales (a Foucault pendulum for example), and you can figure out it’s going around the Sun by looking out of the bloody window or doing a bit of astronomy. The statement of the equivalence of all inertial frames is a deep one and led historically (with inertial frames suitably defined) to General Relativity - see any book on the subject, including my last book on Black Holes - available from all good book shops ;-)

@piers_J_morgan Orbits are not like water down a plug hole. If you were to turn the Sun into a black hole of the same mass the Earth would continue to orbit as it does now.

@ProfBrianCox Brian, can you tell me, when much of science is observational evidence, why is our galaxy not disappearing into the black hole at it's centre, when the spiral formation is indicative of that, like water down a plughole?

@kpa421 Actually a little special relativity will also give you a deeper understanding of the relationship between electric and magnetic fields.

@ProfBrianCox But how do magnets work?

Heading to Sydney tomorrow with the essentials for the live show.

3/11, explore the dazzling complexity of nature as BBC scientist @ProfBrianCox takes you on a visually stunning, mind-expanding “journey through space and time.” Get tickets this Thursday at 10AM with presale code ASTRO: bit.ly/njpacbriancox

✨JUST ANNOUNCED - PROFESSOR BRIAN COX✨ ✨🌏 @ProfBrianCox will be here on Sunday, November 22 at 7:30pm! He is back with his new world tour Emergence! 🌏✨ Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10am More info: TheMahaffey.com