TES: Professor Brian Cox, The Big Bang Live Lesson

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Professor Brian Cox rocketed into a winning school in West Sussex to present an extraordinary science lesson as part of The Big Bang Fair 2013. Broadcast live on TES.

[@hellosnackbar]

Cox is far and away the best promoter of physics there's ever been!He's stimulated a 23% increase in physics student's applications. They should give him a knighthood.

[@IXLAZYMANXI]

Literally! I just love listening to him talk about space. Hes got the perfect character fpr it

[@jockneyranger]

Just think, the kids that asked these questions could possibly be studying at university today. Inspired by the man that answered their questions. Wonderful.

[@colingenge9999]

Love how keen the children are. Virtually every hand is up and all good questions too.

[@PeterKertesz2013]

Brian Cox is amazing person,how lucky the children are to be in contact with him!

[@unit0033]

@carla vos why are you watching his video then!!!!!! lol

[@garyskinner2422]

Yes he's a wonderful human being

[@blindinglights02]

I love to see the children being educated like this 👍

[@savtraffic]

The ability to explain complex science in common sense terms is extraordinary. Gotta be alotta fun too.

[@AdamMcVeigh11]

Cox should get the Nobel prize for his connection between science and education

[@Ivanhoe2]

Most definitely,,,,one hundred percent in agreement!

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

+Adam McVeigh He got his OBE for that ....

[@DavidAndrewsPEC]

+Adam McVeigh And a D. Univ. from the Open University.

[@cloude7]

David Andrews stouaf tair. Estrua dyr y

[@Pipemonkey]

Adam McVeigh should get a noble prize for bull shit and locked up for indoctrinating children to believe his world of unproven pseudoscience crap which can all be debunked in a heartbeat. Ok let’s start with a simple THEORY!!! One day there was nothing, then for no reason from nothing, nothing exploded, creating everything,, space, time, stars, blah blah blah and earth, the first cells, etc, now 90 billion yes s later we’re spinning faster than the speed of sound, hurling around the sun at 67 thousand miles and hour our galaxy moving at 450,000,000, and the whole thing moving so fast at a speed that’s almost immeasurable and totally nonsensical. Yet nobody in history has ever seen heard or felt this. Not single inch of parallax in the stars has ever been detected, every test taken to prove the earth spins has failed, evolution, never been proven, gravity never been proven, easily explained by density and buoyancy. Everything you think you know is fake, don’t listen to this cock, he mentioned they’ve actually measured the exact age of the universe, ok wtf please was he there huh lol 😂 have you done the calculations yourself, wait no, so are you telling me you listening to a idiot you don’t know, read books of men/ women you’ve never met, but believe what they tell you, so you believe them why? Wait, dare I say it, a leap of faith. You’ll be telling me they landed on the moon next lol.

[@gunaseelans9639]

Cox is Master in presenting, I learned by him a lot ,he Is hero

[@glutinousmaximus]

Brian is a great ambassador for science. Children are a good place to engender interest in being a part of the exploration of the world and the universe around us. A great teacher, even at this elementary level. More power to his elbow!

[@davidsmith6859]

He's a wonderful communicator.

[@joetavish]

I love how he's not patronising here....great teaching

[@mattwuk]

As a reasonably intelligent fifty year old man I will always love the child simple way Sir Cox presents this.

[@mastod0n1]

Brian Cox is not a Sir in the strictest sense because he is a CBE. He hasn't been knighted, although I think he probably should be.

[@bigbulk688]

What an awesome way to inspire young minds into delving in science.

[@8698gil]

Wonderful to see kids being taught the real science.

[@18daisydoll65]

This lecture was pitched just right for me😃

[@me3411]

He is an amazing inspiration model

[@essy111]

Brians voice is so well spoekn he would be idea for allowing him to read story books for children before they go to bed his voice is so soothing as some kids are scared of the dark

[@joypj9940]

We have to wait still 10 more years to get answers for these littles asked all questions. Thank you so much

[@sonicrising6614]

I swear the girl on top of the screen at 25:23 is Hermione Granger...Brain Cox gave a lecture at Hogwarts.

[@masterlesstheband]

Brilliant questions from the kids considering their age.

[@shobhaislamtumpa8667]

I like Brian Cox.....he is really very good at presentation & teaching.....Love from Bangladesh

[@jeffdunzy6618]

I love this guy

[@snezhankailcheva9580]

I wonder how many of those kids are scientists now. The girl with the yogurt question was sooo sweet!

[@wharfedale831]

Yep haha , shame Brian didn’t remember though , he him self said it on would I lie to you , as a joke

[@ThinkHuman]

Awesome presentation,many interesting thoughts!

[@jorritschulte]

I love the question kids ask scientists. so open minded and eager to learn.

[@wruse]

when he explaines it to the kids, i understand smthg, too.

[@palsbro89]

COXY!!! That man just makes me smile....

[@skepticalJones82]

Ah the Aye aye! RIP Douglas Adams.

[@MikeDeFi]

Thank you for this delightfully amusing reply. Seriously, you've brightened up my day.

[@Dannyjones1]

These kids never realised how lucky they are. They learned more in this session than they did in a whole year of 'science'.

[@avedic]

I love Neil DeGrasse Tyson a whole lot, but when it comes to being the heir to Carl Sagan's legacy, I think Brian Cox edges out as the best contender...though only beating NDGT by a slim margin.

[@treebles]

✨🚀🛰🌒i adore them both!🌒🛰🚀✨

[@aidankenealy2231]

Personally I think Neil comes across as arrogant. And the way he puts weird emphasis on certain words annoys me. But to each their own.

[@akuma2892]

Brian just has such an intelligent, soft delivery.. love learning from him.

[@chrisclark7212]

NDGT is an arrogant SCHPECK A LIL SPECHK . He thinks he is the only man to see his way and talk to ppl like theyre thick .

[@hellosnackbar]

Cox is far and away the best promoter of physics there's ever been!He's stimulated a 23% increase in physics student's applications.

[@deviatefishy]

Watching this in 2021, did any of the kids end up at CERN?

[@bryanthalley1131]

Anybody else get their ears blown out by that womans introduction? Other than that, fantastic show!

[@user-vf2ll4nj6z]

Thanks for the lecture. A bit disappointed with not zooming on the screen to be able to see the presentation. More important than focusing on Brian and the kids. It should’ve been thought about before the lecture. Nevertheless, thank you for the recording

[@yourmateELLIOT]

We have to watch this for our r

[@Skimopie13]

How come we don't get to have stuff like this in America x_x

[@18daisydoll65]

Cleaners??? I'd be happy to be a cleaner at CERN.... I'll settle for a visit though💫

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

Me too lol

[@canonA1film]

The yoghurt dropping thing appeared on Would I Lie to You when Brian Cox was a guest, but I don't know if it originated there. Surely he would remember telling that whole story on the show if he'd just been on there. Maybe the show pulled it from here, or some other joke that was going around earlier.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

But you do. Find Sean Carroll and Neil deGrasse and Kraus on youtube. Although they usually speak to adults.

[@DonaldSleightholme]

maybe use a heated drill bit to get through europa ice? 🤔

[@Skimopie13]

I mean have scientists and people like him come to our schools :T

[@JerryMetal]

I can understand what Brian is saying but my biggest question is, what did the lady say at the end xD

[@saleemalbazee3981]

if the fabric of universe is stretching, is there any thing may cause the universe tear apart to create two different universes? If big bang is true, how could it possible to include all the mass of current universe in a single point?

[@omnihippo9]

35:43 Great to see so many kids interested in sci... hey, it's Hermione Granger!

[@sorcereous]

Wow alot of experts in the comments!! Wowwwwwwwww

[@venkateshbabu5623]

If the observable universe is approximately 14 billion light years and if we take out light then 14 billion years. Speed of light divided by 14 billon years equals 10 power 8 minus ten power 15 meters. Approx ten power 7 meters. 1 cm.

[@venkateshbabu5623]

Why 1 cm approximately because 6.023×10 power 23 atoms occupied. Somewhat dark dense.

[@leapsplashafrog]

Didn't know we'd landed robots on Titan

[@occristian1]

I think you need to add another layer of tinfoil to your hat; they might be hearing your thoughts.

[@wharfedale831]

As an adult too I’d love to be raising my hand 😅, so many answers made me question other things , for example I was curious … if as he said the Big Bang began in an area smaller than this room , even smaller than a head … there was a second question , are we at the centre of the universe , he said there is no centre it happened everywhere. I’d love him to emphasise on this , also removing the higgs field … would it break every solid apart to the point it’s invisible , like break a solid apart at a atomic level

[@essy111]

Yes he does haha

[@animedestroyer6122]

HOLY SHIT ZAC YOU WERE ADORABLE

[@essy111]

I can assure you that D simpson has plenty of friends thankyou very much!

[@essy111]

Look at how Brain Cox looks like all the members of Dura Duran speghetified all into one he must be some strange kind of creation out of the Hadron Collider?

[@pixchips]

Otherwise this was brilliant lecture - got me excited about science all over again. Does this happen in US? Or is Big Bang too "controversial".

[@theresechristiansen9769]

Controversial? How? The Big Bang shouldn't actually be an issue re: "the god issue". It could work well together. However, anyone who believes God actually created the universe in 7 actual days is stupid. Sorry, there's no other way to look at it. But each "day" can be 450 000 years long -like the light remnant from CoBR. Certainly there was a point when light existed -when it was no longer an opaque universe -also a 'very long time' ago. The concept of "dark" also existed and still does; therefore those first few verses of Genesis can be re-interpreted using the fundamentals of physics. But as Cox states, there *was* a Big Bang but we don't know what precipitated it.

[@theresechristiansen9769]

Kassyni Savior+ "other countries don't know about it" ?? The work on the Big Bang occurs *in* Europe with physicists from the UK, Amsterdam, Japan, Austria, Switzerland etc and a *few* from the US :)

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

it's illegal to teach Big Bang Theory in America, I know cause my uncle Clovis got arrested for it .

[@akairyu3028]

Bib Bang hehe .

[@rowdy.rockers]

If the sun was the size of a baseball, what object would equal the size of the earth? 1M / circumference of earth = a rubber BB

[@fz1wheelie]

Only 147,000 views, perhaps it's a little too long for the KZbin generation. Perhaps if Prof Brian Cox was on TikTok and skimmed a bit we might have more scientists, although thicker ones!!!

[@rydinhoclips1397]

Did anyone notice the quality street in the background?

[@rydinhoclips1397]

The chocolates

[@essy111]

What is more important Brian is we need disclosure and the epole of Mars to return to the surface of Mars as they have been living underground for so long

[@5Andysalive]

Isn't is a shame that a significant part of these kids, who may want to and be able to... won't be able to afford university?

[@Rico-Suave_]

I love learning all this, very interesting, Brian Cox is a great educator(mainstream) like Carl Sagan , Neil Degrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku, David Suzuki, Sean Carol the physicist, Sean Carol the biologist, Jim Khalili, Brian Greene, Bill Nye and sooo many more scientist

[@essy111]

perhaps cos they wernt allowed to the Qs may of been too rude haha

[@EclecticStarseed]

1:30 he lied. xD

[@Athrun000]

Great lecture... But I find it a bit too deep for those children...

[@cones05]

i dnt understand half n im 27 lol

[@essy111]

Its not deep enuff he should of told the kids Mars is full of people already

[@essy111]

Deep its not deep enough

[@demianhaki7598]

+Athrun000 I think it's good to mix easier stuff with more difficult stuff. a) It makes sure that people have heard sth once and remember it at a later date and b) it encourages further learning when they don't get sth right away.

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

@@essy111 not at as deep as those humans hiding underground in Mars 😂

[@essy111]

ha ha funny

[@cptmuska]

lol the camera weighs 7 thousand tons...

[@neilhobson3624]

It’s surprising that lemurs are still roaming around Madagascar with the fosser living amongst them. Some bloody predator they are. Brian Cox is a great guy 👍.

[@627hjc]

i didnt see many girls with their hands up

[@essy111]

haha

[@abbysykes1235]

1:05:09!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@yourmateELLIOT]

RE homework

[@essy111]

Listen to that women at the start did she really need to scream her head off?

[@a.smile7]

I like and respect Prof. Cox, but can he explain under the evolution umbrila: why only giraffe evolved with long neck when there are hundreds of other species live in the same environment without such evolution? why only this catfish evoluted to have a full body tongue, and there are hundreds of other species live in the same environment again without such evolution?

[@cptmuska]

I think the comments are broken. There is NO way these are the top comments. lol

[@avedic]

That's the "new" KZbin for you..... -____-

[@rodsimmons9337]

If the Universe EXPANDED RAPIDLY in the beginning, what made it STOP EXPANDING, only to START EXPANDING again at an ever increasing rate ??? And WHERE is 'Dark Energy' coming FROM at an ever INCREASING rate to drive this expansion ???

[@ronaldderooij1774]

I think it would be obligatory for all professors to spend 10% or their time talking about what they do to teens.

[@pixchips]

Lisa Randall needs to have talk with Brian Cox: first 6 or so questions from audience were from boys. First question from a young lady, prompted by her teacher, was actually a joke. Finally a young lady asked her own question about dark energy. Good for her, but there seems to be an obvious gender bias even in a middle school lecture.

[@leanderian]

Lots of girls raised their hands, but the teacher picked mainly boys.

[@sirdigbychickenceasar4474]

+leanderian don't worry about it guys. it's probably for the best. I bet the girls don't know what hes on about anyway.

[@dahee1]

leanderian. I wonder were the teachers picking the students they believed knew something about science.

[@Noi5ee]

To be fair Brian wasn't the one picking.

[@savtraffic]

Intelligent design.

[@aleknzz]

yo human is just too lucky about evolution and stuff.........and by tha way how many years we think we are getting to next planet... maybe next star?????????????oh and by tha way just look at tha principal leave all nerds behind and leave hot young and sweet future puzszy....=D 1:00:05

[@petercolvin4150]

I don't understand evolution. How do little changes in DNA occur?

[@avedic]

6:29 aw....his joke fell *_flat_* with those kids.

[@user-oh7iv3ij5x]

aved

[@user-oh7iv3ij5x]

Blue moon forum

[@essy111]

Just to let you know guys that Cern is actually being used as a stargate to being back the horned God Cernonnnus which is where Cern got its name. These so called Scientists do not want you to know this.

[@unit0033]

lol, oh dear

[@pintificate]

the smiling assassin of young minds. . .

[@kadiyalidurga]

teachers asking questions through happens in the whole world ,,,, very old habits die very hard

[@MikeDeFi]

Do you find it difficult to make new friends?

[@johnmcnally8698]

Brian do you believe in a god?

[@damianclark1763]

He doesn't

[@brianfurtado4273]

Just as well that he doesn't. Any intelligent being wouldn't be bothered with such primitive nonsense.

[@unit0033]

he probably doesnt believe in magic unicorns, pixies, universe creating turtles, gods, witches, etc.... why would anyone unless they have been proven real

[@stevefromsaskatoon830]

Actually he's religious forsure , I know cause we go to the same church

[@doczak69]

poor kids .......!!!

[@essy111]

why are they poor kids haha

[@slim590]

evolution is not the answer.

[@railwaymechanicalengineer4587]

CAN PEOPLE WITH PhD's REALLY BELIEVE SUCH RELIGIOUS GARBAGE ???? "Big Bang" & "Expanding Universe" THEORIES ! Both were published by a Belgian CATHOLIC PRIEST. Father George Lemaitre in 1927, with the blessing of the Pope. In an attempt to Hijack Science, and manufacture "Scientific proof" to prove the Biblical "Creation" Myth !

[@jonsirulesx9929]

I really like Brian as a presenter but he does have an annoying habit of starting one sentence then suddenly stopping and starting another. This happens several time in this lecture, and in every other presentation and TV show I have seen him do. It is like he starts an answer and then something else, possibly a better way of explaining his point, occurs to him so he changes tack with no warning.

[@lenmetallica]

Love hearing this guy, but I wish Brian Cox would be a little more accurate in his explanations. He does use a little creative freedom to help the average person visualize and romanticize about the wonders of particle physics but I think does contribute to some people delegitimizing him, especially due to his high academic background and the fact that he works at CERN. His explanation about how the particles that you're made of bump into the Higg's particles to give matter mass isn't really very accurate coming from a professional particle physicist nor are the figures for Saturn's rings accurate at all. I doubt you'd be able to see a 2 or 3 meters worth of anything around the entire planet of saturn.

[@sirdigbychickenceasar4474]

see all those little people he's talking to. They are children it's not a midget science convention. CCCHHHHIIIILLLDDDDRRREEENNNN. doofus. not partical physicists. little fellas who need it simplified. jees give them a chance god damn you.

[@lenmetallica]

What is your with your condescending and hostile attitude, although I suppose I shouldn't expect much more from KZbin comments, silly me. There's a difference between simplifying a statement and falsifying a statement, which was my point.

[@theresechristiansen9769]

Actually I disagree Lenmetallica+ Cox' discussion about how the particles "you're made of" bump into the Higg's Boson is exactly how all the CERN theorists, engineers and physicists described it.

[@lenmetallica]

alexandra momentalle I'd like to see the source for this information. I am no particle physicist by any sense of term, but I am under the impression that the creation of a Higgs Boson is an excitement of the Higgs Field, as described by quantum field theory. Matter interacting with the Higgs Field is what supposedly gives matter it's mass. The Higgs Boson by itself has no role in this interaction.

[@theresechristiansen9769]

Ok, so Higgs particles "bump into other particles" -these are the words of p' physicists (I get the generalisation you're referring to now a bit better) but doesn't the boson itself have energy & therefore mass? Yes, they're the result of the Field but contain 70 g'VE (I have no clue how to find cosmological symbols on my laptop -sorry about that). If you listen to the lecture 'Smashing Physics' I think the explanation whilst general at first will give you the quanta algebra you need? Certainly it helped me a bit. I'm knew to this -biology via medicine via music was my field. Introduced to this recently by my son, actually: who is only 14 and zooming along!

[@rosewhite---]

Cox is a fool!

[@unit0033]

care to qualify yr statement!