Brian Cox's Favourite Wonder - Wonders of the Solar System - BBC

[@travellerinthedark]

I finally found out the name of the track that starts at 1.10! It's called 'Optical', composed by Paul Reeves and is in his APM Music album Life in Motion. Gosh, I've been trying to find this track since 2009, and I know I'm not the only one. Everyone upvote this comment so other searchers can find it!

[@shoebahmad965]

👍

[@petelowson5481]

The production and camera work on the series is absolutely amazing.

[@niveditachakraborty1826]

Sir Brian Cox, you inspire me to study the wonders of the universe.

[@SummerBreeze106]

Brian Cox is great, I just wish they'd put this series on YT for the world to see :)

[@Dubliners39]

So so lucky to have Brian Cox on earth 🌏🌑☀️🌳☄️🌊🔭🌡️

[@robjames09]

i really like the way brian cox thinks. and the way he explains things. and the questions he asks.

[@winniexn]

I love his excitement/curiosity approach to his presenting. He is so inspiring and makes the programme so much more engaging! From someone who was always a bit scared of Physics or Science in general, Brian Cox has me totally captivated. Definitely an achievement and has renewed my interest and I know that there are plenty of others who feel the same way! What a great show!

[@daphnewinters8541]

This show needs to come back, I use to love this show.

[@MrPhumo]

Quite possibly the best science based programme I have ever seen. I sit mesmerised every Sunday in sheer awe at what I am being taught: what I wish I had learnt whilst I was at school. Prof Brian Cox presents like a giddy school boy who's just bought his first home science kit. I challenge anyone to sit and watch this programme and not be completely and utterly enthralled. I encourage everyone to watch and gain a greater appreciation of who we are and why we're here. Just brilliant.

[@CindyGroulx]

I watched this last night, even being familiar to Brians's discussion, there were so many little pieces I was not aware of. That is what Brian Cox does, never misses.

[@mitchellymt1]

the full DVD is amazing! i buy it weeks ago and it was amazing.

[@darkkodama01]

Wonderful! Can't wait for 9p.m tonight. Your enthusiasm really conveys the wonderment of our solar system. Tempted to get BBC HD just for this programme, hopefully tho there will be a blu ray. Truly wonderful

[@gaiusisthecoolone6978]

11 yr ago

[@thegangsta1526]

12 years ago!😯

[@BDyckns]

First time I saw this guy. Absolutely explains things in REAL terms....Also no animation..or little of it..Dr Cox brings the video from the source right to us and lays the story and facts out on the table so I know what is what as I scarf it all up!!!! Thank you Dr Brian Cox!! Thank you very much! (Setting up me scope right now!

[@yukieee3408]

His words are full with kindness 😃

[@controversiaster]

I LOVE his voice....

[@phat1234]

id love to watch this series.....i hope it too does make its way to youtube brian cox is such a great spirit

[@lmos26]

I've been interested in Titan ever since I saw the scene in Gattica way back in 1997 "or so" where Ethan Hawke demonstrates the mystery of Titan's surface by blowing his cigarette smoke into his drinking glass. Not since Carl Sagan's time has anyone been able to captivate me with fascinating stories of astrophysics quite like Brian Cox.

[@SkaCrazytown]

for whomever still cares, i've finally found it (thanks to my brother!) It's called optical by Paul Reeves (cd = life in motion). HERO!

[@Sparksterchan]

Thank you!! I just heard it this morning and had to find it. :D

[@BDyckns]

You're like gravity...I love astronomy...and you pull me into the PHYSICS of it all which makes it absolutely absolute!! :O)

[@kritikant2932]

We love Brian cox❤❤❤

[@LizardYup]

I love Brian Cox, he's my biggest influence. I wish I could be like him when I get older.

[@kurdishzombie]

Well, are you like him now?

[@LizardYup]

@@kurdishzombie Wow a blast from the past, thanks for replying. No I am not, I am me!

[@kurdishzombie]

@@LizardYup 👏

[@Alishondra]

He is a very good narrator.. I just watched this, amazing

[@leapsplashafrog]

Awesome, spellbinding series about, well us and what utterly amazing animals we are, hope that we can evolve further and how little we are in the scale of the cosmos - and presumably other singularities yet to occur... Bit of quantum next please Brian. Well done to Brian, taxpayers and the BBC. And thanks meditation for helping me accept (still trying!) the reality of all this. Gosh, pour me a stiff one...wow.

[@Zekkandgrant13]

YAY! Dr. Cox shares my favourite Wonder!

[@ProfessorND]

I totally agree! Titan is truly amazing ! :-)

[@TechNextLetsGo]

If I was stranded on an island for the rest of my life and all I could watch was shows hosted by Brian Cox, I would be happy.

[@thackary]

Any nationality can watch it on iPlayer, but you have to be in the UK. It's paid for by UK TV licence players, so that's pretty fair.

[@ice484]

There are to many human cats and dogs on this planet ! Anyone with my sence will know what I mean. Thank you to the BBC for the inspiring Prof Cox.

[@preim23]

Our earth really is special and one of a kind in the universe, its our precious jewel and we need to nurture and protect it from harms way we cant(i meant) afford to lose Earth for our future generations let them enjoy what we are during this age of stars

[@SkaCrazytown]

@MrInhumanvision It took me a couple of years to find it but here it is! Sheridan Tongue - Optical (it's available on Itunes).

[@Topdoginuk]

Wow!

[@ChillyUK77]

Get this into schools, a lot of the videos I saw in high school were from the late 80's early 90's, this is a lot more entertaining and relevant to today's students.

[@JuhaKera]

My most recent purchase of the fantastic BBC Blue Ray documentaries and I agree on all the compliments of the other commentators. Looks breathtaking on a large LED LCD.

[@AlbertBabu]

BBC alwyes gives the best.

[@lifeismusicinaction]

They are lakes of methane. As he mentioned, Earth's atmosphere allows water to exist in liquid, solid, and gas forms. Titan's atmosphere allows methane to exist in all three forms as well. Titan has methane clouds, that rain methane, forming methane rivers and lakes. Just as water, in it's different forms helps shape/change the landscape on Earth, methane plays a role in shaping the land on Titan.

[@naybobdenod]

@MrPhumo I could`nt agree more,well said my friend

[@annabellesmith6099]

Beautiful place.ypu work so hard.all the best .and be careful all the time.

[@preim23]

Our earth really is special and one of a kind in the universe, its our precious jewel and we need to nurture and protect it from harms way we can afford to lose Earth for our future generations let them enjoy what we are during this age of stars

[@zephiro1]

Thank´s I´ve looking for this song name for a long time!

[@jlmadill]

@TheAlexander356 Since electrons have mass then yes of course gravity can slow them down. However this applies only to electrons in free space. Electrons in an orbit are bound by quantum wells and particular energy states, thus they do not slow down as they "orbit" a nucleus. In fact, they are not really orbitting but in a quantum probability blur around the nucleus. They do not "move" from one energy level to another in a traditional sense but rather jump quantumly. Hope that helps.

[@fasttraderone]

I am anxiously awaiting the broadcast of this series in the USA. I have only been able to see a short clip of the five episodes here and there, not much more. Brian Cox is a wonderful presenter and a dedicated physicist and yes he is hot !!!!

[@armaanjaz5968]

Love of a Mother with out a doubt is also a wonder of this solar system

[@muffin8or]

*Best Brian Cox Impression* If you were to travel. To Proxima Centauri, the closest start to us, it would take you a billion. billion. BILLION years.

[@AshbyUnlimited]

The music in BBC docu's is fucking awesome.

[@FengLong]

@thechosendot probably something the bbc commissioned for the show

[@SueMead]

Although (he's) cut from a different cloth than, Sir David Attenborough, so to speak, Prof. Brian Cox certainly has a way to engage with his audience and we're all the better for it. Viva la Brian. Viva la Physics! And, viva la Sir David A. for arousing interest in our natural world and universe. There are some that would see such programmes as a waste of money but we all know they're full of shit. (I don't have time, 'nor space to explain why)

[@PrakashSingh-rr4oi]

very educationfull vedios

[@DancingSpiderman]

@teatime90 Yes, since the crampons are practical equipment, the National Science Foundation's Accounts Payable Department accepts receipts of purchase for reimbursement

[@SuperZarrabal]

My favourite wonder of the Universe is... Earth itself. Not a superstar, black hole, or other monster out there. Earth reminds me... a mother, what else is more beatiful than that?

[@cdnerin]

Yeah, you're right. I actually saw a video of Prof. Cox giving a TED Talk, and he recited a Carl Sagan quote that went along with the photo of Earth as a tiny little dot caught in a sunbeam, the furthest picture taken of Earth, and that photo & quote is the log-on screen for my computer! I read it at least once every week,, especially lately (I have the full "speech" on my copy, I think). Although the rings of Saturn are just boggling ... and the colour of Neptune is my all-time favourite shade of blue. Oh, and the sheer size of Jupiter and those storms on it! I haven't watched the Wonders of the Universe yet, I've borrowed it from my local library, just finishing up Solar System first!

[@simonsrd100]

I am curious to know is is the vacuum in space constant through out the whole universe ? . I would also like to understand how vacuum effects interacting with mass and gravity .As there is no such thing as stationary given that every thing in the universe moves . So what is the relationship between these forces and could a stationary universe actual exist which I doubt .

[@thechosendot]

I NEED to know the music that starts playing at about 1:12! It's so beautiful. If anyone knows, could they PLEASE let me know. Much appreciated!

[@TheLogic1010]

NEWTON, I've actually been to his house. Feynman an amazing thinker, Sagan zero!

[@phat1234]

they are lakes of methane from my understanding.

[@Carsfirst_online]

What is that music. It’s beautiful 😍

[@NonExist3nt]

I'm going to say liquid air... that is nitrogen and oxygen, but I'm not sure about the boiling points of each at the pressure levels of titan. So it would be a guess :)

[@StuartHaitchXbox]

@MrPhumo If you like this then you'll love Carl Sagan's "cosmos", it's what inspired me as a child to become and astrophysicist.

[@raisuddin230]

nice picture.

[@SkaCrazytown]

Does anyone already know where the music that starts at 1:10 is from?

[@NanocDark99]

ok now i need to ask. is there a big documentary from brian cox and bbc where i can watch all these little 4 minutes video as one big documentary movie?

[@raynarks]

@Leofox94 Only genuine smiling has that effect: throw that book on the fire mate, at least it will do some good as heat. Body language books like all selfhelp books will only mess your mind up.

[@zephiro1]

Does anyone knows the name of the music that stars at min 1:10?, please I need it, it´s amazing!

[@kingoftheuniverse8215]

zephiro1 yes it is called optical by paul reeves

[@davidmundy6056]

I think these Black area's are ridiculously deep holes!

[@ryansnonstop]

what is the music that begins around the 1:30 mark????

[@markusduff2006]

@MrPhumo You should also watch Cosmos! Carl sagan... very powerful and just as brilliant, even if it is a little dated. :)

[@SHurd-rc2go]

Cosmos was Cox's inspiration.

[@Stickings90]

Methane - according to the programme. I have the DVDs of both Solar system and Universe. I understand there is a new one coming out, Wonders of Life.

[@AustralianLeprechaun]

Has he been on The Big Bang Theory. He should do it!

[@jlmadill]

@TheAlexander356 Yes.

[@RohithBasu]

its liquid methane (CH4), the simplest organic hydrocarbon

[@ericsbuds]

i love science.

[@simonsrd100]

I am curious to know is the vacuum of space constant through out the whole universe.

[@moonrockguy]

@boabfly I'm lucky, I did. That's why I'm a physics teacher now and I hope that I am as enthusiastic as him and capable of explaining things as well as he does.

[@davidcarlson2152]

_water is frozen as hard as steel._ That's pretty darn hard, so I suspect he was speaking metaphorically rather than truthfully.

[@susanxschen]

I think he was implying if water was present on Titan because the temperature on Titan is well below it's freezing point so at -180 degrees ice would be very very hard indeed, because the temperature on Titan would not be above the melting point of water so it'll just stay hard solid ice.

[@askaichin]

People what is the music in the background? I have to know.

[@edmund184]

Climate Change campaigner and all round good egg Brian Cox didn't half create a heavy carbon footprint with this series.

[@ichimonji1988]

What are they?? I must know!!

[@Akimitsu64]

I’m very glad NASA is preparing their “dragonfly” mission to fly like a drone in Titan’s atmosphere in 2034 🤞😄I can’t wait to see what it uncovers! Imo it’s more exciting than James Webb!!!

[@moonrockguy]

@boabfly I'm lucky, I did. That's why I'm a physics teacher now and I hope that I am as enthusiastic as these guys.

[@TheSonicWafflez]

For those wondering, they're lakes of liquid methane.

[@Behindstage]

@MrPhumo The best clearly since cosmos with carl sagan...benchmark science shows.

[@perfectionbox]

Looks like Cillian Murphy a bit? But still, Cox's passion for science is clear.

[@XanderMarjoram]

There's a face at 0:38!

[@deanjdk]

@omarinbox A more real approach? the idea of this program is to get people interested in science..It does a great job.In what way is he getting over exited? Having a passion about science is not a bad thing.

[@tomr200199]

@mrsabbeylautner It's probable that life exists in one or two other bodies within our solar system and possible 3 or 4 others, although of course very basic. But by the sheer numbers of stars in the Universe, the existance of life more inteligent than us is in my eyes inevitable.

[@splinterbyrd]

The only thing I dislike about this series is the dreary tinny title music

[@Rhademanthus]

@george7378 It's funny because Brand agrees with you

[@phat1234]

the original comment he replied to was deleted... we will never know. unless the guy who replied to the deleted post a year ago responds.

[@beautykal1122]

I’m here for my schoolwork

[@AAGolab]

Actually liquid hydrocarbons most likely, nice guess though.

[@Resimaster]

Liquid Methane :)

[@omarinbox]

@viradaocarioca lol yeah but I downloaded Cosmos instead

[@119glory]

Don't quote me, but I'm pretty sure they're liquid Methane?

[@SkaCrazytown]

Please dear god, universe, someone..Post me the song that starts at 1:11!!!!

[@JoePalin1]

@happyidiottalk liquid methane and ethane

[@brentonherbert7775]

Yep, tipycal BBC. leave us on a cliff hanger with no way to actually view it. Thanks BBC!

[@tomstein7131]

Brenton Herbert what ever it is I’m sure it can be deduced at least to some extent by looking at elements that take liquid form at -180 degrees

[@hameed]

The lakes are methane, correct?

[@coolsdon]

@conman2goo Move to Britiain and PAY the license fee,then you can watch ALL their programmes.Why should the UK populace subsidize the rest of the world??!! Of course you could just put your hand in your pocket and buy the DVD!!!!!!!!

[@SquirrelFromGradLife]

If it is liquid, methane an/or nitrogen, then it must have tides just like water on Earth. The tides must be even bigger than on Earth because Saturn is that much larger then the Moon.

[@peanutbuttereggdirt1]

Houses don't die...

[@Adi-kv4db]

I agree with you

[@Coppertunes]

Everything decays, including houses. At some point there'll be nothing, absolutely nothing.