Brian Cox (physicist)

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

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🗓️ 31 March 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Brian Cox (Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey) is a physicist and former musician. Brian joins the Armchair Expert to discuss how we know the Big Bang actually happened, what actually happens when information is sent into a black hole, and how time moves differently in spacetime. Brian and Dax talk about where the end of time exists, how science is taught to kids in different parts of the world, and how social science differs from the science of physics. Brian explains how we have learned so much about the universe since the release of the movie Interstellar, how astronauts are actually falling when they are orbiting the Earth, and having dinner with Succession actor Brian Cox. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome to armchair expert experts on expert. I'm Dan Shepard and I'm joined by
0:05.3	Monica Mouse. Hello. So this is a confusing guest as you'll learn about in the
0:10.5	episode. Yeah. Because there's a very famous actor of the same name that's on one of our favorite shows, Secession. That's right. This is not him. No. This is an equally impressive, perhaps even more impressive, Brian Cox, who's a physicist yes and he is a Peabody
0:26.4	award-winning physicist okay he was also in a rock band that charted this guy's
0:31.8	incredible he's got a few wonderful books. One, why does he equal
0:36.0	MC squared? The quantum universe, the human universe, and right now he has a super cool live tour where you can go get dazzled by the wonderments of our
0:47.8	Cosmos. It is called Horizons, a 21st century Space Odyssey.. Now listen if you didn't like science you're going to be half-ass tempted to bail from this episode because he gets it gets deep.
1:00.3	We've never had an episode like this. I feel I can definitively say that. I agree. I was
1:05.9	fucking lost, but here's the beauty. This is why I say don't bail. Because we're lost too and we
1:10.4	We claw our way back. We find the threads and we try to pull ourselves to his understanding.
1:15.2	We didn't really get there. But we got much closer.
1:17.8	It makes you so curious about the universe in existence and it's kind of profound. Yeah even if you don't get
1:23.7	the intricacies of what he's saying the global thoughts of our place in this
1:28.0	enormous realm are really worth having. Yes. Please enjoy Brian Cox.
1:34.0	Wundry Plus subscribers can listen to armchair expert early and ad free right now.
1:40.0	Join Wundry Plus in the Wundry app or on Apple Podcasts or you can listen for free wherever you get your podcast So thank you for doing this. I really appreciate it. Do you live here or no you live in
2:07.6	England? Because you're teaching still. Yeah in Manchester. My only European
2:11.9	girlfriend was from Manchester when I was a child.
2:14.2	Met her skiing.
2:15.2	Really? Does that mean you can do the accent?
2:17.1	No, no, no, no. You would hate it. I mean, when you're not here, I'll do it for sure.
2:21.1	But in your presence, I shan't dare. Now, did one of the guys from Weiser go pursue like a doctoral degree in physics or something like that?
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