Brian Cox: Work In Progress

[carl_w]

Went to this last night. It's a warm-up for his next tour called Emergence.

Thoroughly recommended. It is a fair few levels above what he does on TV, including quantum mechanics in 10 minutes and general relativity in 5.

[Super Sonic]

That sounds good, is it about how organisation and complexity arise from simple rules, the origins of life and consciousness etc? Fascinating stuff
ETA, I started looking at the Wikipedia page, and in the first paragraph there were two words I had to look up, this might take a while.

Edited by Super Sonic on Wednesday 14th January 20:09

[carl_w]

Super Sonic said:

That sounds good, is it about how organisation and complexity arise from simple rules, the origins of life and consciousness etc? Fascinating stuff

Yes it's mostly about pattern recognition, symmetry and asking questions, and recognizing that there are some things that we cannot ever know. Quantum mechanics and general relativity are featured.

Geek mode on: I studied Physics and Astrophysics at university so none of the concepts were new to me. But he does have good science communication skills that enabled me to better understand concepts that I had been taught by some very clever people but with less communication skills. If I recall correctly, I failed dismally at cosmology.

[Trikster]

Having been to a couple of his shows before they are thoroughly enjoyable - some (a lot?) does go over my head, but what i do understand is fascinating, and that i don't still gives a taste of the subject without feeling totally overwhelmed

As he said at the O2 a few years ago, how freaky is it 20,000 people paying to go to a physics lecture????

[pidsy]

Saw him at Wembley - fascinating.

The largest LED screen in Europe made you feel like you were immersed in what he was talking about.