Prof. Brian Cox | Carpool

[@TheHulksMistress]

I so wish Brian Cox could be a guest star on an episode of Red Dwarf one day, as a character explaining the workings of some weird alien star you’re all headed towards….just for all the crew to be like “….nahhhhh you’ve no idea what you’re talking about” just before they plough into it And love this show, real shame you seem to have stopped doing it. Have just saved about 20 to watch. Best interviews I’ve seen

[@MikeKobb]

Prof. Cox is DEFINITELY on my short list for people I'd love to meet and spend an evening talking with. Well done!

[@pnlruled]

Love it, Brian Cox 's first question to God, "Hang on a minute, if this afterlife really exists how do fridges work then?"

[@PrototypeJames]

This was great to watch :D I could listen to Brian talk all day, also i can't get enough of his epic smile

[@gorgieboy10]

Wow. I am honestly stunned by this series. There has been such amazing conversations going on. Very well done. By the way loved you in Red Dwarf

[@thenodfather]

You could do a whole series with Professor Brian Cox, he is just fantastic to listen to.

[@choda42]

"So if there's an afterlife, I'd have to reconsider the engineering design of fridges." Genius.

[@dougie1968]

Why?

[@melvert33]

Because how does the afterlife work in relation to the laws of physics a la fridge design.

[@Alex_Khouri]

I'd just like to say that this is one of the most delightfully interesting and intellectually stimulating videos I've ever seen on KZbin. Thank you very much for your highly entertaining videos; I think the concept is fantastic, due in no small part to the calibre of your guests. Please keep them coming!

[@davidglebe]

Why can't there be more people like Brian Cox, brilliant interview!

[@greyareaRK1]

Driving through London while discussing quantum mechanics with Brian Cox sounds like a recipe for brain fusion.

[@CarolPrice4p]

i'd be willing; but can't drive

[@NiCoDeimus]

So - driving in Central London, navigating to a specific point, conducting an interview with someone you've just met and trying to comprehend particle physics. I'd have crashed the bloody car, so well done Mr Llewellyn! It's lovely to see an educator in action, and to see someone so happy to be educated. Bravo!

[@irishchick41]

hes just smiling the whole time, what a dreamboat. makes me want to learn so much m ore about everything.

[@jasondavis8886]

It's the smug look of an establishment shill, is all.

[@DawsonMusicEducation]

Kryten 2X4B-523P and Brian Cox discussing physics. Love it..

[@geospectrum]

Another great interview. Bravo.

[@batmanofni]

Brian is just brilliant, could listen to him all day. Also Rob's great too.

[@ironmaidyn]

Great interview, thankyou! I could happily listen to Prof. Cox all day!! :D

[@conorfrench6385]

Really enjoyed that. Thanks

[@RobMutch]

Great interview and great concept for interviewing. :o)

[@japhyryder66]

I just adore Professor Cox. He's brilliant but is so joyous about science, the world and the universe. It's very childlike and incredibly endearing. I'd love the opportunity to pick his brain.

[@erosmangr74]

I have to say that I like this show. It's an interesting idea for interviewing people in an informal and also cheap way. I'm definitely going to look up some of the others. Keep it up!

[@justnotcricket]

Great show. How did i miss this. There really aren't many interviews these days that just talk about interesting things with interesting people, just a collection of anecdotes (most i assume are made up). Great to see the scrapheap challenge man again, i used to like him with lisa, they looked like they had a lot of fun. gratitude from an insomniac engineering nerd.

[@theresechristiansen9769]

"Right" "right" "Wow" "right" "yeah, uh huhn." Other than "right" it was a joy to listen to and to watch as I remember being stuck in endless traffic jams on various British motorways. Thx to the uploader. I wouldn't see it on Oz otherwise.

[@snarevandamm]

best one yet in my eyes - i could talk quantum physics with Brian for ages. i love the theories and looking at the world in a different way... great vid Bob!

[@mingycomumbus167]

Born in 68? He's older than me! He looks like a kid.

[@pipster1891]

Was in the year above me at school. Had the school's biggest mullet.

[@karendegenerous8044]

Mingy Comumbus. 😀😆.....

[@michealjohnny]

I really enjoyed this episode! Thanks mister, and keep on trucking!

[@Sari36YT]

right wow right wow right right wow wow

[@garymacmillan6401]

Not Robert's greatest hour.

[@lilianagaetani7658]

i read this before watching and now is all i hear

[@gaelyonnet557]

Sarithus 😆

[@XdjdaleyX]

Brian broke the timeline continuum and turned an interview into a lecture!

[@stuartlnicol]

A brilliantly interesting interview and entertaining 30 mins Thank you!

[@JD_13]

Always a bonus while searching Brian Cox interviews to find one with Kryten!!

[@seanerson9459]

Again, not looking for Brian Cox, and simply blown away every time he speaks. Another brilliant mind, that sadly, not enough people know about or have the mental capacity to understand, try to understand, or even respect. If you can't fall into understand, try to understand, or respect with everything in life...why are you alive? His quote fits most KZbin comments: You can have your opinion, but don't have the right to be listened to!

[@clairehughes6280]

Excellent thank you Robert

[@MrDangermouse1980]

5:40 - Just sitting here chatting away... This is exactly why Carpool works so well, there's no agenda, the guests aren't plugging a new film or punting a new book (actually wait...), just a lot of very interesting, intelligent people from many walks of life with stories to tell having a pleasant chat with a genuine, interested and unpretentious host. I hope this series explodes into the popularity it deserves.

[@PaulSLambeth]

"One of our 20-odd tonne magnets jumped about a foot to the left" ... WHAT.

[@Lego6980]

Thanks. Really enjoyed this one

[@marshhen]

I find this enormously entertaining. As an artist with no science education, I appreciate the host standing in for me saying all the rights and wows...scientists must find us such dolts. I appreciate that Cox does not let on how ridiculous it must seem that non-scientists are so surprised and awed by what he knows to be the basic facts about the world.

[@SuperWayneyb]

He also played keyboards with a rock band called Dare. And the drummer was in a band with my Pal a long time ago.

[@cormyat07]

Don't let idiots get you down. These videos are brilliant. I wish we had more of this kind of stuff in America.

[@acromel]

I hope Brian comes back periodically to give us updates on his work. I never get tired of his ability to express physics is in a way that even I can understand. He could be a British Feynman!

[@richardkocksworthy8423]

So cool too see him with the hand symbol in the thumbnail. You should have got Mr C.Charles in the back seat and had nice little gathering ;P

[@Mancspark]

great interview, enjoy the whole concept, conversations in a car brilliant, why couldnt i have come up with that idea! Mr Llewellyn bring back red dwarf,scrapheap challenge is ace also!

[@markshorrocks5056]

I love the theme tune...

[@michaelhope8899]

Mark Shorrocks I was just about to write this and then you beat me to it. It's just so calming, the whole show is calming!

[@starbizzleable]

He's so smiley :)

[@bistoha]

This is like an add on to his wonders series, glad i watched this.

[@hiirscotty]

Many thanks for creating such a wonderful show, Bobby. Ignore the haters - they don't have anything close to your humility and dignity.

[@squadmeta]

@carpoolUK ...and on a more positive note, i've only just discovered carpool and can't get enough of it, what a great idea this was, well done :) Content over form.

[@IDann1]

I’m just discovering this here on KZbin,we need new ones ... 🤩

[@Rachy91]

I love smart and funny people. I love how eloquent he speaks.I like the interview. I don't care about the right,oh, and yeahs but I'm sure none of us would really had anything to say either.

[@davesneddonfilms]

still watching, still great!!

[@syolelimited]

When I talk like this to people, talking about the amazing things I know about the universe, people get angry with me and want me to shut up :(

[@CakraDiaz]

we're on the same boat mate. Astronomy ftw.

[@drubber007]

That's because you're talking blabbering crap which there is no possible way to back any of it up. All just a theory dreamt up by scientists. Just like gravity.

[@freejrs]

Brilliant bloke, super intelligent and can explain things so even Lister could understand!!! lol Cheers.

[@antiquax]

A guy working at CERN came up the world wide web and CERN was the first site live. That's a pretty good value add

[@deanjdk]

The speed of light bit at the end was brilliant

[@losarman]

the 1st thing I remember is the apollo soyus, great 1st memories eh it wud b a gr8 idea to have B Cox in the front with Stephen Fry and Alan Davies in the back

[@katewhiteside]

This is probably my favourite of them all.

[@Phaleel]

@HermanTheNinja There is more of this conversation further down. It began just a few responses down from these. Typing this so you any fence-sitters have a comprehensive view of our exchange.

[@pinnegubbe]

its so cool that i actually can understand everything mr. cox says! i love physics and space and omg.... i love science

[@robyourtime]

Does the start of the theme tune remind anyone else of Band on the Run by Wings?

[@dennisrichards2540]

10:27 I love the way Cox says "the green party should applaud" in a way the says 'fuck the green party'

[@muongluonQUARK]

I loved the book, Why Does e=mc²?; at some points reading it was like listening to him explain first hand. It was really easy to understand - I failed myself by not taking physics as a subject even though it's my main passion beyond English... headdesk.

[@Czechness]

I think I just fell in love with Brian Cox have you ever heard of a partical physicist who used to be in a rock band? and I feel the same way about maths ... I love physics, I dont like maths very much and I find difficult

[@higfny]

Brian Cox should do this a lot more. The public need to know a lot more about science, and he's the man to explain

[@naishjam]

@Elpmek I doubt it. Most of the academics I know would happily spend all day every day talking about their subjects. To survive as an academic you have to really, really bloody love your subject - and if you don't get to Coxy's position without passion. Also, every person you meet has a different level of understanding, and a different body of knowledge, so part of the joy of explaining your ideas to them is trying to find new, and better, explanations.

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

Marvellous! Thank you.

[@MaximusMingus]

Enjoyed that, thank you for uploading. Ignore the negative comments about not fully understanding all that Brian Cox says, I fail to fully comprehend a conversation with the Mrs about the weekly shop when Im driving :)

[@markcarey67]

See Leonard Suskind's Stanford lectures on particle physics (which are on youtube) the electrons are shared/smeared out among atoms in a molecule which is a lower energy state than them beign seperate - this is to do with the electron field - the electromagnetic force is responsible for holding electrons to the nucleus in individual elements but it isn't responsible for holding molacules together because the electrons should all repel or one should just get donated and no molecules

[@Cowinspace]

The comparison between an afterlife and a fridge was a piece of brilliance.

[@SamuelDaram]

LOL! Robert Llewellyn has done well to focus on the driving as well as what Brian Cox had to say. Brilliant 30 mins.

[@DarrenStortz]

i just ordered his book off amazon

[@the_black_rose3336]

All I kept hearing was "right". Then again if I was in a car with Brian Cox and he was talking all I would do is try to soak it in and say "right'.

[@MarkAtkin]

I like the bit at 25:37. "I'm not saying 'right' because I understand. I'm saying 'right' because I'm trying to understand."

[@DynestiGTI]

3:10 this was my exact reaction when I was told to think of Jupiter as a failed star. Had it got more mass, fusion could take place, and it would start to radiate photons, illuminating our sky just like the Sun.

[@1969Kismet]

I don't remember who said that but it applies perfectly: "By the time he'd answered me, I couldn't understand my own question anymore."

[@slowskeptic6833]

Almost looks like Penny is listening to Sheldon Cooper :D

[@IAmTheBlurr]

The book that Richard mentions around the 16:30 mark is most likely "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. It's a fantastic book even if Richard was thinking of a different book but I'm 95% sure it's Outliers.

[@theDaoistBean]

Just throwing this out there...Brian Cox is Rogers Waters if he had found physics rather than his own self-obsessed story. Both are wonderfully entertaining!

[@HermanTheNinja]

@Phaleel indeed ...i have a friend who is a senior reserch scientist for a major company in the world.....& has friends who aslo work with influential companies

[@stoatyboy]

@carpoolUK... is that actually you robert?

[@SangatangV1]

@bcm18 I'm not sure if you're aware how to converse with someone, but whilst the other person is tallking it's polite to show interest in what they are saying.

[@pipkin1973]

@acromel he is shooting a new series of 'Wonders' as we speak

[@TheNova5]

LOL!! "wow" this just cracks me up. thinking about how Kryten and Cat used to talk about things in space as a 'squiggly thing' or a 'swirly thing' haha.

[@HermanTheNinja]

@Phaleel do you feel that you have to put down others to make youreself feel better?

[@srnicol]

"Is the galaxy going to fold in on itself?" Brian: "Nope". Me: LOL.

[@Sifar_Secure]

@scottie0904 I agree. There are thousands of harcore physics lectures on youtube if that's what you're after. This was an informal chat between an expert and an amateur, sharing their enthusiasms for the wonders of the cosmos. This is my second favourite carpool episode (at number one is the gorgeous, clever, wonderful, Dr. Alice Roberts!) and I enjoyed it immensely. Love you Bob!

[@terrytierney1]

Brian Cox is the greatest thing to come out of Oldham since my Dad!

[@NinjaNoobTurtle]

This is faaantastic :)

[@chives2]

"fusion bomb, thats old, rubbish." so funny!

[@SilverRaindrops86]

I love your videos. If you would actually be reacting to what Brian Cox says in any other way, 99% of the people watching would not be able to follow the conversation anymore, so that was the best way to do it. I think asking the questions that most of the people watching would ask as well is the best way to do an interview, and you do it really well.

[@7byseven]

toured with jimmy page blimey lucky man

[@mattsmedley.onehandedgamin9029]

30:31, the question of god....... No, because of thermodynamics & if so then how does my fridge work. Give the man a round of applause 👏

[@dumplingsmmm]

He is so great

[@AussieEvonne]

@lellyumsX Good point, and I agree. But to nuance that, I would say: 1. He is driving. And I know that when I am driving, if someone is talking to me about complex stuff (even less complex than the origin of the universe) I will eventually switch off because I'm concentrating on the road. And 2. This is bloody complex stuff. Brian does a good job, but it's still really quite complex. Even if you're not driving, it's easy to switch off.

[@HermanTheNinja]

how much tonnage of lithium could be used in replacement of steel for internal combustion engion's in comparrison to battery engions....

[@spankydaley]

'if youre in a car travelling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on will anything happen?' is from an old Steven Wright routine. He said he asked this at job interviews and if he didnt get an answer he'd say he didnt want the job

[@nigelsenchez]

I think the light goes away from you at light speed but I might be wrong

[@cptmuska]

the part about denuclearizing astonishing me, i am a physicist. masters degree, and Brian thought me something new on a tv talk show. :) thank you sir

[@zContagium]

This would be 100x more kickass with subtitles

[@SamuelDaram]

Love what Professor Brian Cox has to say about the "afterlife" 22:42

[@brod2man]

I wouldn't have chosen a car to conduct interview/conversations. I can barely comprehend questions asked to me while I'm driving a car. Impressive that he's driving and taking in information about concepts completely new to him

[@frankieroandMCR]

Can't believe I met this guy the other day, crazy stuff.

[@wnfcjkenvfj]

Well put sir!

[@Muswell]

He has such a boyish charm - almost coy. Can you believe he's 45 ? What does he know about anti-ageing in the Universe? Lol.

[@PassiveSmoking]

He spends most of his time off camera travelling close to the speed of light in order to slow down the ageing process by time dilation. Either that or he keeps a black hole in his cellar.

[@krashd]

***** In 1997 his band played the New Labour anthem "Things can only get better", that's how I know he's as old as you say.

[@SSCFPA]

PassiveSmoking He was born in 1968.

[@GallopCrush]

I like more of this.