Professor Brian Cox on doubt, the universe and the future of humanity (E217)

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🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This is a conversation about science, philosophy, the meaning of life, and the unfathomable size of the universe.

Professor Brian Cox is a physicist, known for his astronomy and cosmology series’, including The Universe and Stargazing Live. He has performed on several sell-out arena tours, setting the Guinness World Record for the biggest selling science tour. Before his career in science, at age 18 Brian embarked on a musical career, forming a band with the ex-keyboarder from Thin Lizzy. Brian shares stories of his 5 years as a professional musician; as a keyboard player in the bands Dare and D:Ream. Having achieved in D in Maths A-level, Brian discusses with Jake and Damain how this experience taught him his greatest lesson: the importance of practice.

In this episode, Brian imparts invaluable wisdom on the pursuit of greatness and knowledge, and his belief that “very few people are naturally great”. He shares his secrets on summoning the courage to ask difficult questions and the importance of saying “I don’t know”. They discuss the greatest threat to humanity: human stupidity, and Brian offers insights on creating global cooperation in a world with the power to destroy itself.

Jake, Damian and Brian tackle life's biggest questions, whilst exploring life's more personal subjects: self-doubt, fear and finding confidence.

See Brian on his live tour ‘Horizons’: https://briancoxlive.co.uk/

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0:00.0	Hi there, I'm Jake Humphrey and you're listening to High Performance on the High Performance
0:05.9	app.
0:06.9	This is the award-winning podcast that unlocks the minds of some of the most fascinating
0:10.3	people on the planet.
0:11.9	Alongside Professor Damien Hughes, we learn from the stories, successes and struggles of
0:16.2	our guests, allowing us all to explore, be challenged and to grow.
0:21.2	Here's what's coming up.
0:23.0	Did the universe have a beginning?
0:25.2	We know that the universe was very hot and dense, 13.8 billion years ago.
0:29.6	That's good.
0:30.6	We call that the Big Bang.
0:31.6	But whether that was a beginning in time, whether the universe existed in some form
0:36.4	before that, what it means to talk about the beginning of time, we don't even know what
0:40.8	time is.
0:41.8	If a big UFO came now, we walk outside and over Westminster, there's a spaceship hovering.
0:49.6	I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised.
0:52.4	The big problem at the moment is how to get along as a global society in a world where
0:59.6	we have the means to destroy ourselves.
1:02.8	How can humanity justify our existence when faced with the power, an infinite scale of
1:11.7	nature?
1:12.7	Well, here we go then, physicist Brian Cox joins us on the podcast today.
1:18.2	He is a man who's on the TV, on the radio, he's in theaters right across the world, but
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