21 Minutes of MIND BENDING Science Facts from Brian Cox
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- Prepare to have your mind blown! In this video we join renowned physicist Brian Cox as he takes you on a thrilling journey through mind-bending science facts that challenge our understanding of the universe. From the mysteries of black holes to the wonders of quantum physics, this captivating exploration reveals the astonishing complexities of reality. Perfect for science enthusiasts and curious minds alike, get ready to expand your knowledge and see the world in a whole new light!
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I love watching Prof Cox ..he is an astonishing intellectual with a great sense of humour and is a natural communicator.. a rare combination. He is a great ambassador and inspiration to anyone interested in Science . Also an asset for the U.K. Well done Prof.
My favorite! He's got that some thing
@@kirksmith902 yes it's not the X factor...it's the Quantum Factor Brian has.
Brian Cox is an astonishing intellectual? The man doesn't even realize that there is no such thing as time, particularly in the way he thinks about it, such as, he thinks time is a DIMENSION. It's not. So he's actually not very bright.
@@aaronsmith7946 ha ha and what does your psychiatrist think of your theory?
@@aaronsmith7946time is called a dimension as we’re able to travel through it as we do space but unlike space we can only ever go forward
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you, Brian Cox.
This guy is brilliant. My mind can’t comprehend!
Brilliant video. I love Brian! It is fascinating listening to him. Keep producing these videos please!
Brian Cox is an absolute G. I remember when he was in a magazine in the UK one year as the nost-wanted to be married man by women across the country. He's just that great.
Truly a great role model.
Absolutely mind blowing! Thank you Joe and Prof Cox!
No one tells it like Brian ❤❤❤
Things can only get better
We are the universe trying to understand itself.
Um no bro. You completely miss the entire point. Back to square one with you.
You are my thoughts and I experience you as my separate self. Goodbye weebs.
Incoherent rambling..
@@TRVPHAUS This is paraphrasing Carl Sagan.
You probably haven't read his books.
This is a Carl Sagan idea.
Rogan not needed in this video
Or in general
Haters gonna hate
Rogan gave him a platform to begin with, thanks to Rogan, Brian Cox reached a lot of people
@@michaelcolditz6107 bro what are you talking about he's been making programs on mainstream TV (bbc) for 20 years. Brian Cox been a household name in the UK for years before he was on Rogan. World doesn't revolve around America lol
Maybe Rogan's idiot listeners will learn something or, better yet, start to read books.
One of the many things in this topic of conversation that I can't get my head round, is even if there is other life in the milky way, isn't it somehow so far away that if we could look at it we'd be seeing the distant past of wherever we're looking? So wouldn't we have to wait millions or billions of years to see the beginnings of life, or civilisation I suppose?
I find Brian Cox endlessly fascinating but as I say cannot get my head round or even really comprehend like more than half of what he says 😂
We are " in" the Milky Way . Look up " where are we in the Milky Way" and you'll see a map for context
correct.. and if we flew to meet them at the closest star at near light speed 4 million years would have passed on Earth.. so we can never tell ourselves about our discovery..
it is absolutely flabbergasting how small we are, and how little time we actually live.
The more we know the more we don’t know
How are we to know this?
Apparently they speculate(?) that the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. Which means that since light is all that we have to go by in terms of discovering space, every second we know less about it than we did the second before. The sum total of our knowledge is shrinking relative to the totality of everything. That's pretty funny.
Prof Brian Cox dropping facts and blowing minds.. where them Creationists at?
I think them Creationists are frantically either rabbiting through their bibles, desperate for clues and hope; or quietly walking away with their hands in their pockets and whistling.
But they needn't fret, there are (literally) millions of other gods/godesses/etc out there to choose from if ol' Jehovah gets made redundant. (Can you imagine an "Old Gods Home" for retired or obsolete divinities?).
It is crazy how smart Brian cox is. I discovered him about 20 years ago and couldn’t understand. I still can’t understand today but I’m so much more hooked on what he says and how he explains. I’m just not clever enough to understand
Ethiopia, a powerhouse of invention and innovation..
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It's nice to see that others can see as I do.
I love how Brian went onto Joe Rogan's podcast (a notoriously sketchy on the truth podcast) and decided to blast him with a wall of facts, backed up with science, maths, and research. Decimated him with real truth.
We wouldn't be here without that rock that hit us 65 million years ago. The dino's would still rule earth without it.
please don’t force me to watch Bro Jogan. I’m here for the wonderful Brian Cox, not a hack ‘comedian’
Why background music?
Clever man 👨
At the start, he talks about hominid out of Africa, notably Ethiopia. What we do know is the origins of coffee cane from Ethiopia.
Joe Rogan asking the right questions to the most brilliant mind of our time
If given a number, number 1 or 9 it's repeated in structure to add up to anything!
So 1 only and 9 are
If we did observe a sign of life near a distant star, we would be observing it as it was long ago, so we would have to assume if it still exists, then it has advanced enormously. So any sign of life would be a sign of advanced intelligence, and it would be vastly more advanced than we are. It would be so far advanced that if they were observing us, then they would be advanced enough to observe us in current time, which means they would be advanced enough to circumvent the limit of the speed of light.
Can someone answer this for me?
While in space how is it possible to have humans travel using our mathematics when there is no known measure of distance (except the largest know object being dark matter) no gravity eliminating what we know as up, down, North, South , East and West? Once losing site of the known objects in our galaxy would you not be lost?
One millimeter off from launch will put you light years away from your target depending on distance traveled.
If traveling light speeds into space or as we know it as the past. How would we know that in 10,000 light years a planet is not now directly in our path?
I’d love to watch this because I love Brian, but Rogan????
07:40 Gravity is very weak ? What A Einstein's theory, or was it Special Relativity. That holds the planet and atmosphere in stability.
Universe is expanding faster then the speed of light. That's saying something about infinity
It's absolutely infinitely. In the words of David St. Hubbens. "What's behind what's stoping it?".
So gravity IS a force? 7:36
The new Hawking 👏🏻👏🏻🙌🙌 love this guy !!!
It’s not really a comparison. This guy teaches what great physicists discover, Hawking was the actual physicist, and one of the greatest one
@ I never said different, he will transcend & thrive in new physicists like Brian Cox !!!! 🩵🩵🩵🩵
Hope not, Hawking is a pervert that liked children. But guess that’s the people that you love and worship.
The new Sagan
@@shoobror8291I mean, Brian Cox has done some really important work in particle physics, both in direct research and also experimental through the module he contributed towards at CERN. Then he is a lecturer directly at University of Manchester.
He then teaches through media and entertainment the general science and big picture l to get people interested in science? Which both helps people enter the field and the interest also can generate more funding through more overall support.
Yeah Hawking was on another level, as was Einstein, Newton and Euler. But I wouldn't put Cox that far down frankly.
There are an infinite set of numbers between 0 and 1, but none of them are 2. Infinity does not require that anything is possible.
You think that astrophysics is the study of an infinite range of values between 0 and 1; astrophysicists might disagree and say they are studying an infinite arrangement of stars and planets, and how organic (or otherwise) life can develop there.
If the Big Bang theory is true, and the universe was created, and it took the planet earth more than 3 billion years to create complex life. Then, if the Big Bang theory is true, then it’s plausible that amongst the 20 billion other earth-like planets in our galaxy, those planets could possibly have the same trajectory of life as we have had on our planet. Which may explain why there’s no evidence currently of other life that we have been able to observe ourselves because those planets are in the same exact boat as we’re in.
My dad said, where does space end? But don't think about it, it will drive you mad.
You're absolutely right, Mr. Cox! There are infinite possibilities; all that's up to each one of us is to choose the one that fits us own!
I really like the composite Brian Cox it's wonderful what can be achieved with CGI and Adobe these days 😮😊
A more advanced civilisation (by even only 500 years say) would have solved what we call physics and emigrated to a higher plane. They may know about us but all we could possibly find of them is their fast decaying ruins in this very limiting (for life) physical plane. Therefore it's highly unlikely there would be an overlap, for contact to be possible. You could expect they would have left a message for others, although you would have to be advanced enough to know what that might look like. It would have to be written in the fabric of this plane, maybe many, many times. You would also expect them to have seeded this plane in some way before leaving. Knowing that a lifeform had achieved that would fundamentally change our outlook, we should just assume it. Imagine 3 billion people working towards the same goal.
Rutherford the genius from Richmond NZ - incredible how quick the nuclear usage came afterwards
Brian, if light has no mass, how is it that it bends when subjected to gravity? e.g. passing a large planet/ a black hole?
it doesn't it follows a straight line through curved space.
@@craig7350 Many thanks. I understand.
You say we "Know", no, you don't know, you "Think" would be the more appropriate answer. th-cam.com/video/pk7vPFYigag/w-d-xo.html
He said “I think to many times”, I believe this stuff heavy
He is Keanu Reaves of Astrophysicist
Thank God he didn't try to grow a straggle patchy beard.
Why is Joe included? No thank you. But I’ll take Joe over endless background music, which is the scourge of TH-cam.
I need him to explain it to me like a two year old !
It’s all about time, have they been around for long enough? Are they technologically advanced enough or have they annihilated themselves. This is the 64 billion question.
Hearing reminds me of an old adage. Something like There's 3 Brilliant people in a close proximity,and none of them knew about the others So someone asks them while they didn't know so and so. The man says no one introduced us. Like say a business card ,You just knew it but you weren't introduced, it's that simple yet complicated..😅
Guy just crunched numbers in the million billions in like three seconds and says your putting me on the spot. Ha! Don't worry the rest of the world won't catch up, ever!
Isn't it incorrect to suggest the Universe is 'infinite' as it's expanding? If something is bigger tomorrow than it is today it has a size that's increasing. And if something has a size, albeit constantly increasing, it's technically measurable (at any given point in time) and not infinite? Infinity doesn't get 'bigger'! Isn't it 'more' correct to suggest the Universe will/could expand for an infinite amount of time!?
What does Brian eat to seem ageless, he’s 57…If I only paid more attention in school!
One would say it's a law of infinite with the law of harmony but no one understands the meaning of it. Everything is alive, but we have delete or forgotten. We say billions of years how old no one knows anyway Truth
There were no big jumps in hominin brain size. Most significant brain increase occurred in individual species rather than dramatic leaps between species. Brain size evolved as new generations developed larger brains within their species, not through sudden large changes when a new species emerged. I respect Dr. Jones, but the notion that there was a burst of brain growth in our taxonomic evolution has long since been abandoned.
So if the universe is infinite then somewhere there really will be an infinite line of monkeys on typewriters and one of them will of completed the works of a Shakespeare ?
Oh for chrissakes leave the simians alone, they have far better things to do than pound away on Smith Coronas for your amusement.
can can tell he can see what hes explaining in his own mind
I suspect that wherever water exists in all three phases life might arise. As for intelligent civilization i suspect there are very few if any. If such civilizations do exist our star systems are so far apart we are unlikely to mee them.
It’s suspicious that they do not include the elliptical nature of our orbit in the climate models isn’t it? Sun spot cycles either. It’s almost like they don’t like accurate answers.
Higgs should have replied ‘It doesn’t matter’? 😂
yeah, but how does a thermos flask know to keep the contents hot or cold..? 🤣
The only question would be: Is the infinite Universe a physical possibility? Infinity is a conceptual monster that doesn’t quite jive well with a physical system / reality.
Well thanks Prof! If the universe is infinite then I am pretty insignificant compared to that
More?
What if...We were relatively slow to develop? I think the going theories are mapping our development against others but what if there are civilizations out there who are 400-600 years ahead of us but simply have not had the desire to populate other planets because their conditions on their home planet are ideal. Their advancements have been more internal than external. What if their socio political situation is different from ours? What if their minds as it relates to development of high end technology are not as robust as ours?
I feel we are mapping our existence as the "model" when we could be an exception rather than the rule and it could be one way or another either plus or minus.
The general thought process is that if there is intelligent life out there we would have seen them our their footprint by now but that could be wrong on so many different levels. First we need to define intelligent life more clearly. Some believe or seem to want to say that they, if around within our timespan, would be as advanced as we are or more. We can have civilizations as advanced, less advanced or more advanced than us. We are not considering all that comes into play such as societal needs.
400 to 600 years ahead? How about a billion years ahead - what would that look like... ?
We don't know. All we have to go on is our own understanding of ourselves, and then assume that if the laws of nature produced us as we are then the same thing is most likely to happen elsewhere.
I think people often disregard the fact that we have, essentially, alien life on our planet. Orcas, Octopi, Monkeys etc.. these are intelligent life. We put so much value in technology and war that if creatures aren’t taking part they are considered non-intelligent.
What if the universe is just a grain of sand on an untouched world in another universe? We dont know anything really do we
I always imagined that our universe is a living small cell
@@mohannadgh-p5hYou could be right. I always think about how tiny particles are and how it gets smaller and smaller and smaller, and there will be much smaller particles we haven't discovered yet. It could be that our universe is just all one particle; as in particles don't stop outside of what we perceive them as, and it extends well outside of our galaxy/universe.
There is no option that the universe is infinite! For if it has an end, say a brick wall that to must go on until it also ends and so on infinity. The norm is obviously not nothing before creation followed by existence but matter existing as the standard. 🐹
A black hole creating a big bang might not be a bad idea actually hahah
common misconception about 'infinity' is that it is omnipotence. Cox commits this fallacy?? -if you have 'infinite' monkeys typing on typewriters, they still get constrained by the laws of physic and the standard of deviation of jibberish. They aren't going to have one who eventually perfectly writes the total works of Shakespeare. It just will never happen in any number of infinite universes, is has to do with types of infinity and different sizes of infinity, with understandings of standards of deviation... saying "everything" will happen in infinite universes is like saying if I divide by zero with enough vigor, my calculator will spit out an adult golden retriever.
So I'm just a dreamer but year me out and bear with me I'm no astrophysicist.
Ok so the moon pulls on the earth tides and white not, so wouldn't the celestial bodies orbiting the sun have essentially the same or similar affect on the sun , pulling and kneading perhaps the massive affects of the planets is what ignites a gas planet into a Star , say like Jupiter got a few more large bodies pulling and orbiting could it theoretically somehow ignite those gasses and this Jupiter becomes a star ? I know I must sound like an idiot but I was just curious.
Nuclear fusion in a star is both caused by AND contained by the star's own atmosphere. Even on the Earth, where the atmosphere is maybe 100km thick, the pressure of that air is around 15psi. The Sun is all gas, so it's all atmosphere, and it's 7000x deeper.
So the pressure squeezes four hydrogen atoms into one helium atom plus energy, and this explosion would blow the Sun apart if it weren't for ... the enormous pressure keeping it together.
The Higgs field is what used to be called the ether.😂
This guy! Nobel prize this guy 🎉
I really want to like this but the music... whyyyy
Ok but he forgot to add one topic, I once made a volcano and it shot fake lava
I wonder if Brian Cox would go back on Joe Rogan podcast after he went full pro trump anti vaccine anti global warming anti science
Why wouldn't he? He actually has a brain, unlike all the people who voted for Kamala. I.e. You.
@ well obviously he has a brain , he is a scientist, Joe Rogan went the other direction anti science , and yes I voted for Kamala
Not because I like her but because trump economics are just terrible
@@juandeldiablo696 What? The economy was doing twice as good when Trump was in office as opposed to the last 4 years of Kamala. Because Joe was asleep at the wheel the entire time and she had all the time in the world to do literally _anything_ and she blew it. She didn't even have a plan for the next four years. She's just another DEI hire that blew it and is the reason that we're seeing a massive decline in that idiotic ideology. Just look at how well it's working out for California right now.
P.S. He never went "anti vaccine, global warming _or_ science." You just soak up whatever BS the media sells you, don't you? Let me guess, you think Trump is a "racist, homophobic transphobe" too, right? You kids these days, I swear...
Genuine intellectuals respect other’s opinions and carry on full, meaningful conversations with people that don’t mirror their exact beliefs. That’s a large difference between intellects and pseudo-intellects. So much to learn when you aren’t surrounded by mirrors
He has briefly talked about this election and seemed to at least understand if not partially agree with conservative values and points.
Hi Bri I'm in.=B
TOM CRUISE****
What about the other side they’re all the same level of technology, give or take 100 years, then humans will not find other beings for another extraordinarily long time
Well if what is happening in the world displays intelligence that took so much time to develop it I very sadly lacking.
Only because our earth went through 62 extinction events and cataclysmic events. Life had kept getting halted over and over again. Which is why having somewhere to go and wait or go and use as a temporary shelter whilst we fix whatever happened here on earth
In an infinite universe, scientists tell us ad infinitum that there are an infinite number of possibilities, which can and must happen, but never do and never will.
“‘Do you think time is infinite, Dion?’ He shrugged.
‘Come on,’ I prodded. ‘Give me an answer. You want comfort? I might have a solution for you-or at least my aspect Arnaud might. But first, is time infinite?’
‘I don’t think we know for certain,’ Dion replied. ‘But yeah, I’d guess that it is. Even after our universe ends, something else will happen. If not here, then in other dimensions. Other places. Other big bangs. Matter, space, it’ll continue on without end.’
‘So you’re immortal.’
‘My atoms, maybe,’ he said. ‘But that’s not me. Don’t give me any metaphysical bull-’
‘No metaphysics,’ I said, ‘just a theory. If time is infinite, then anything that can happen will happen-and has happened. That means you’ve happened before, Dion. We all have. Even if there is no God-even supposing that there are no answers, no divinity out there-we’re immortal.’ He frowned.
‘Think about it,’ I said. ‘The universe rolled its cosmic dice and ended up with you-a semi-random collection of atoms, synapses, and chemicals. Together, those create your personality, memories, and very existence. But if time continues forever, eventually that random collection will happened again. It may take hundreds of trillions of years, but it will come again. You. With your memories, your personality. In the context of infinity, kid, we will keep living, over and over.’
‘I … don’t know how comforting that is, honestly. Even if it is true.’ ‘Really?’ I asked. ‘Because I think it’s pretty amazing to consider. Anything that is possible is actually reality, given infinity. So, not only will you return, but your every iteration of possibility will play out. Sometimes you’ll be rich. Sometimes you’ll be poor. In fact, it’s plausible that because of a brain defect, sometime in the future you’ll have the memories you have now, even if in that future time you never lived those memories. So you’ll be you again, completely, and not because of some mystical nonsense-but because of simple mathematics. Even the smallest chance multiplied by infinity is, itself, infinite.’
I stood back up, then squatted down, looking him in the eyes and resting my hand on his shoulder. ‘Every variation of possibility, Dion. At some point, you-the same you, with the same thought processes-will be born to a wealthy family. Your parents will be killed, and you will decide to fight against injustice. It has happened. It will happen. You asked for comfort, Dion? Well, when the fear of death seizes you-when the dark thoughts come-you stare the darkness right back, and you tell it, “I will not listen to you, for I am infinite Batmans.”’”
- Legion: Skin Deep by Brandon Sanderson
As long as he leaves his political beliefs out of it.
Most of what he is saying is not facts, it’s theories and opinions.
Well duh, there's no point researching established facts 🙄
I wonder if Brian has considered what evolves from Homo Sapiens the next stage of evolution.
Great question.
The common thought is, we've kind of stopped evolving as we change the environment to suit us, not the other way around.
Eg loss of all over body hair because we learned to use animal hyde as clothes ...
Evolutionary biology isn't exactly his field of study.
With any luck, it won't be anything resembling Elon Musk.
Another fact, a spoonerism of Brian's name is Crian Box. 😢
Very well said mr... Vaulti mind or what ever.. kinda clever.. huh wtf.. whats happening..? huhhhh don't spin me so much around splease
God says: *"The creation of the heavens and earth is greater than the creation of mankind, but most of the people do not know."* [Quran 40:57]
Joe is high af
What the hell is a jiggawatt?
But you can't extinguish the fact that the observed makes up the majority of reality molecules never come together unless observed. So are you really looking at your results or what you think is results? Is that air you breathing
Brian Cox should have done the remake of Cosmos. Instead of someone that was more interested in being a celebrity.
I sure hope string theory is wrong. That theory infuriates the life out of me
Here's your relief: Theoretical physicist Dr. Angela Collier: "string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard". It's on youtube, she has a channel. I'd add the link but would it be posted? Anyway check out her surprising presentation of the subject which is vexing you. She's good, careful of the rabbit hole....
I call BS god made everything
Gravity is weak?? Bro go to the gym for a day, it's not that weak
He is hot af 😍😩 i can listen him all day 🤤
( ・_ゝ・) Consciousness is the particle and wave double slit experiment. The cones and rods of your eyes preserve the particle and wave duality so your vision don't look like a flat screen television. It's supposed to be a violation of physics but it is the only exception in the whole universe.
... oh, yrd... "climate change..." yuh. Suggestion: billion years go, they didn't care about ut.
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"Infinite" doesn't mean "everything". the set of all odd numbers is infinite, yet there are no even numbers in it.
"within physics"
🤔 21 mind blowing facts in a 21 min clip 😂😂
@Professor Brian Cox
If you are driving in a car at the speed 100mph and shoot a gun out of the diraction of the forward motion of the car, the bullet will have the valocity of the bulletspeed + the car speed, right?
if you turn in the front light of the car, the light will have the speed of the car + the speed of light, ergo faster then light?
No
Not according to Relativity.
The speed of light is fixed period. It's the key to how relativity works.
Relativity has been proven to be correct. No grey area here.
No
It doesn't matter how fast your car is going, you will always see light at the same speed.
You haven't got a computer, a lab or any assistants, just an office in a Swiss patent office. How do you figure out how such a universe works?
Ugh not on joe Rogan