Brian Cox on how black holes could unlock the mysteries of our universe

When black holes disappear, what happens to the stuff that fell in? Physicist Brian Cox explains.
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Brian Cox explains the significance of black holes in the quest for a quantum theory of gravity and a deeper understanding of space and time. According to Cox, black holes are intriguing because they challenge the compatibility of quantum theory and general relativity, creating a fundamental clash in our understanding of nature. Unifying these two pillars of physics is a major goal for theoretical physicists, and black holes are crucial in this pursuit.
He also delves into the characteristics of black holes, describing the event horizon as a boundary between the external universe and the interior of the black hole.
In conclusion, he says, black holes play a pivotal role in our understanding of the universe, pushing scientists to explore the nature of space, time, and the fundamental laws of physics. They offer a glimpse into something deeply hidden, potentially leading to a profound shift in our comprehension of reality.
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About Brian Cox:
Brian Cox obtained a first class honors degree in physics from the University of Manchester in 1995 and in 1998 a Ph.D. in High Energy Particle Physics at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg. He is now Professor of Particle Physics at the University of Manchester, The Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science and a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Brian is widely recognized as the foremost communicator for all things scientific, having presented a number of highly acclaimed science programs for the BBC watched by billions internationally including ‘Adventures in Space and Time’ (2021), ‘Universe’ (2021), ‘The Planets’ (2018), ‘Forces of Nature’ (2016), ‘Human Universe’ (2014), ‘Wonders of Life’ (2012), ‘Wonders of the Universe’ (2011) and ‘Wonders of the Solar System’ (2010).
As an author, Brian has also sold over a million books worldwide including ‘Black Holes’, ‘Universal: A Guide to the Cosmos’, ‘Quantum Universe’ and ‘Why Does E=mc2?’ with co-author Professor Jeffrey Forshaw. He has set several world records for his sell-out live tours, including his most recent tour Horizons which has taken in venues across the globe.

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  • @momszycat4148
    @momszycat41486 ай бұрын

    Please have Brian Cox on more often.

  • @xacbe

    @xacbe

    6 ай бұрын

    Ok, we are going to do whatever it takes to accomplish that 😊

  • @captaintoyota3171

    @captaintoyota3171

    6 ай бұрын

    This should be said to the human population of earth, "put Prof. Briam Cox on"

  • @saumyadeepbhaumik6792

    @saumyadeepbhaumik6792

    6 ай бұрын

    Exactly this I was going to type

  • @alexbranton426

    @alexbranton426

    6 ай бұрын

    Was this a careful second attempt at wording “more cox please!”

  • @hindugoat2302

    @hindugoat2302

    6 ай бұрын

    Your mother loves Cox

  • @skyhawkheavy7524
    @skyhawkheavy75246 ай бұрын

    Brian Cox is probably one of the best at explaining complex things so that we can all be part of those discoveries and be part of that fantastic astronomy journey.

  • @michaelc3977

    @michaelc3977

    6 ай бұрын

    Insert valueless sycophantic comment above

  • @streetchronicles5693

    @streetchronicles5693

    6 ай бұрын

    is it the accent? the soft voice? or the science that doesnt add up?

  • @skyhawkheavy7524

    @skyhawkheavy7524

    6 ай бұрын

    @@michaelc3977 your insecurity turns you into a hater. Bro must be very sad in his life.

  • @oldmate99

    @oldmate99

    5 ай бұрын

    Botox lips

  • @dademags77

    @dademags77

    4 ай бұрын

    He confuses you with stuff most of us know nothing about and none of us can dispute because we wouldn’t know where to look. He speaks the biggest lot of rubbish ever. He’s never been near a black hole, never sent a probe near a black hole, so how on earth he can make these assumptions is based on no actual knowledge, no 100% proved knowledge it’s just another type of faith.

  • @staticsound1422
    @staticsound14224 ай бұрын

    Brian has a gift of assembling the right words together when he talks about physics. He helps you think the way a physicist does in simple terms. Not many scientists have this talent because their minds think so quickly, they can't put the words together that make any sense to us. I think the ah-ha moment when one begins to understand what Brian is talking about is what so many young want-to-be scientists are looking for. He provides that one, thought-provoking spark that you find yourself thinking all day about. He will inspire many of our youth to be scientists and they will continue to unlock the secrets of the universe for all of us.

  • @OriginalPuro

    @OriginalPuro

    3 ай бұрын

    A professional can explain to professionals. And expert can explain to anyone.

  • @joejoe7562

    @joejoe7562

    2 ай бұрын

    He appears to be doing the lecture ad-hoc w/o notes. He doesn't seem to be screen reading.

  • @FROMlefttoRightasdfghjkl

    @FROMlefttoRightasdfghjkl

    2 ай бұрын

    Damn bro

  • @AlphaWasSpotted

    @AlphaWasSpotted

    24 күн бұрын

    ​@@OriginalPurowell said

  • @charliesophia75
    @charliesophia75Ай бұрын

    “Information is conserved by the universe” this is such a nice way to think of those who have left us, and those who we’ve lost. No one is ever really gone.

  • @Erri-kb6et

    @Erri-kb6et

    Ай бұрын

    That was the exact reaction of my mother when I told her about Lavoisier's law for chemistry reactions. No atoms or molecules dissapear, they just change form, they interact but are still there.

  • @HighHell99

    @HighHell99

    Ай бұрын

    So afterlife does exist?

  • @JimStyslinger-hq9sq

    @JimStyslinger-hq9sq

    Ай бұрын

    @charliesophia75 in other words, the matter of your body that was left behind is that "information" you're referring to... But once a person dies, they lose their consciousness and it's pretty much game over for their "soul" so to speak...

  • @JimStyslinger-hq9sq

    @JimStyslinger-hq9sq

    Ай бұрын

    @HighHell99 no lol. Think again pal.

  • @HighHell99

    @HighHell99

    Ай бұрын

    @@JimStyslinger-hq9sq What makes you so sure?

  • @KevinJB1966
    @KevinJB19666 ай бұрын

    Brian Cox is undoubtedly the best communicator of science to the "common" person. His ability to take such complex topics and make them accessible to non specialists is amazing.

  • @SteveNinetyski

    @SteveNinetyski

    4 ай бұрын

    Undoubtedly the best? I personally find him unbearable....so that ruins your point.

  • @SteveNinetyski

    @SteveNinetyski

    4 ай бұрын

    You have no idea how malleable you are. You are the perfect 2024 type of citizen....suckerrrrrrrr.

  • @bokiNYC

    @bokiNYC

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@SteveNinetyskiI mean, OK, that's your point of view but what do you find unbearable exactly? And who else in this field do you prefer listening more? Genuinely interested. Thanks.

  • @user-we6io3lu2u

    @user-we6io3lu2u

    4 ай бұрын

    Maybe now but Richard Feynman was the best for me.

  • @porkchopexpress2437

    @porkchopexpress2437

    3 ай бұрын

    Agreed. He has a wealth of knowledge and he's very humble as well.. Doesn't talk down to the general public. Very informative too. The best there is at the moment. Much 🙌.

  • @devdas8204
    @devdas82046 ай бұрын

    This is the best explanation of black holes I have ever heard. I believe Brian Cox is able to explain so well because he really understands the concept. Reminded me of Feynman. Great editing.

  • @meatpie29

    @meatpie29

    6 ай бұрын

    He is truly gifted yes.

  • @Robinson8491

    @Robinson8491

    6 ай бұрын

    Also total ASMR I love it

  • @Zod_JB

    @Zod_JB

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Robinson8491 100%! I don’t know what it is about this man’s voice but I might have to related to this just to hear him talk 🤣

  • @remnantime3672

    @remnantime3672

    6 ай бұрын

    I don't understand it😢.. It's all assumptions that's all it is

  • @Damaxyz

    @Damaxyz

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@remnantime3672 If you don't understand it how can you come to the conclusion that it's all assumptions?

  • @s4awd2
    @s4awd24 ай бұрын

    I love that no matter how mind boggling the universe is, scientists treat it like any other puzzle and are grinding it out. Instead of being blown away, they keep digging and using math/science to figure it out like any detective not affected by the tragedy of a brutal crime but figuring out how it happened getting the full explanation of events, motive etc.

  • @georgie5870

    @georgie5870

    3 ай бұрын

    that's a perfect comparison for it

  • @TommyCollins-qv4yi

    @TommyCollins-qv4yi

    3 ай бұрын

    chasing after the wind is meaningless

  • @4po11yon.

    @4po11yon.

    2 ай бұрын

    Exactly. To the point where they had to use new type of physics, quantum mechanics

  • @W.0.W.

    @W.0.W.

    2 ай бұрын

    That’s one way of looking at it

  • @BangDman

    @BangDman

    2 ай бұрын

    No. Black Holes can not unlock mysteries of our universe. To do that.. you have to make contact with E.T they existed before the big bang. Cheers.

  • @alexpapa8354
    @alexpapa83545 ай бұрын

    To be honest I dont know anything about what he says but he's calming nature when he talks makes me understand. I would listen to him the whole day.

  • @ashleyellis182
    @ashleyellis1826 ай бұрын

    Every single video or TV show that Brian Cox is a part of, is just simply mesmerising. Explains things in such amazing and beautiful detail, it's not something that anyone could ever get bored of.

  • @ukleth

    @ukleth

    6 ай бұрын

    We already knows most of this from an old book 1400 years ago

  • @budweiser600

    @budweiser600

    6 ай бұрын

    Dude, your standards are so low.

  • @alexanderthegreatsdad.3831

    @alexanderthegreatsdad.3831

    6 ай бұрын

    ​@@ukleththe Quran is nothing but an old Harry Potter story book of hate.

  • @ukleth

    @ukleth

    6 ай бұрын

    @@alexanderthegreatsdad.3831 ok i guess if that make you sleep at night

  • @ashleyellis182

    @ashleyellis182

    6 ай бұрын

    @@ukleth Don't know about him, but makes me sleep well at night.

  • @Fallenhazel
    @Fallenhazel6 ай бұрын

    I've always found Black Holes fascinating, but I've never connected them with that line, "End of Time." It's very poetic.

  • @momszycat4148

    @momszycat4148

    6 ай бұрын

    I don't know,I'm a dummy but I'm thinking it could be the beginning of somthing?

  • @Fallenhazel

    @Fallenhazel

    6 ай бұрын

    @@momszycat4148 You're no dummy, and yes, it could be the beginning as well as the end. Maybe, like a Yin and Yang.

  • @izy205

    @izy205

    6 ай бұрын

    ⁠@@momszycat4148not dumb at all it’s no coincidence that the two unexplainable singularities in our theories (the big bang and black hole singularities) are so similar. Curious how our maths break down in the same way when trying to explain them

  • @paulmichaelfreedman8334

    @paulmichaelfreedman8334

    6 ай бұрын

    @@Fallenhazel What happens to matter after it has fallen beyond the event horizon? According to Kip Thorne there is no singularity, but pure warped spacetime which means it creates gravity without mass. The energy of the mass was put into the curvature of spacetime. So there could well be a firewall behind the event horizon that reduces all matter to energy. But, that is all moot if the black hole represents the end of time, this means that all matter is hanging against the event horizon, from outside perspective, seemingly frozen in time and nearly black. Another paradox.

  • @axle.australian.patriot

    @axle.australian.patriot

    6 ай бұрын

    @@paulmichaelfreedman8334 An interesting concept that I have held personal theorys on for some time goes like this (Mr Cox eluded to this in the presentation). Theoretically, space-time changes or swap states (Think of it a little like space time as a particle for a moment with a positive and negative pole, but in this case the 2 opposing states are space and time). When this change occurs, space becomes time, and time now becomes space. Time now stopped at the event horizon is in essence now infinite, so after the swap space now become infinite and what was space now become the component of time.. We have found ourselves emerging (Maybe even inflating) into a new infinite universe. It's a weird concept for us humans to conceptional but has many implications that not only explains the big bang (Inflation) but many other missing parts of physics. The hardest thing is to depart from our normal 3D thinking to be able to accept that "after"crossing the event horizon and looking back it would appear as if we are emerging from a central point (Like the big bang in some sense). Obviously we would not be alive to see it as it would be likely that all matter would be reduced back to some kind of primordial plazma durring the transition.

  • @user-uw4ch5ed9y
    @user-uw4ch5ed9y4 ай бұрын

    Did he say he has a new book out? God I hope so because he'll be doing the rounds promoting it and I haven't seen him for a while. Even just 10 mins with Brian Cox is such a joy and fascinating without compare. He's just fabulous at explaining it and bringing it to life for everyone. Thank you for the vid

  • @betlogboy3
    @betlogboy35 ай бұрын

    He explained everything so simply.. then he said "The simple way to say it.." This guy is amazing.

  • @davewalt1781

    @davewalt1781

    2 ай бұрын

    It's amazing how he comes up with theories that are virtually impossible. Read the first 5 chapters of Genesis in the Bible to learn the Truth about Creation. God created all things, visible and invisible.

  • @omi685

    @omi685

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@davewalt1781Yeah, right, as if magic and the invisible daddy in the sky are totally possible 😂

  • @davewalt1781

    @davewalt1781

    2 ай бұрын

    @@omi685 I believe the Bible is totally God's Word and God created all things, visible and invisible. Please let me know what you believe. Maybe you can convince me I'm wrong.

  • @omi685

    @omi685

    2 ай бұрын

    @@davewalt1781 I believe in the Enlightenment. The bible is a collection of stories and myths. More than 3,500 different gods are being worshipped worldwide at the moment. More than 18,000 throughout our history. Your religion is an accident of birth.

  • @omi685

    @omi685

    2 ай бұрын

    @@davewalt1781 A piece of paper isn't proof, especially when there are more than 3,500 different gods being worshipped worldwide at the moment. More than 18,000 throughout history. Your religion is an accident of birth.

  • @kapilsharmaWorld_uncensored
    @kapilsharmaWorld_uncensored6 ай бұрын

    It's almost magical that we can see such quality content for free.

  • @coreyyandle2142
    @coreyyandle21426 ай бұрын

    I love how gentle and soft spoken he is. Plus i tend to comprehend what he says much better than other scientific speakers.

  • @sonyavincent7450

    @sonyavincent7450

    6 ай бұрын

    It's a gift. To pull people in. Perhaps he's a black hole.....

  • @bleue_comme_une_orange
    @bleue_comme_une_orange28 күн бұрын

    I could listen to Brian Cox for hours, not only because he enables us to catch a glimpse of progress being made in cutting edge physics but also because his enthusiasm and his insatiable curiosity stimulate mine even further.

  • @sherifaljeddawy2467
    @sherifaljeddawy24676 ай бұрын

    Brian Cox speaking without interruptions is a sermon... salute from Egypt.

  • @mrpearson1230
    @mrpearson12306 ай бұрын

    One of my favorite people to listen to. Physicist & rock star Brian Cox

  • @harryhay-fz7gs

    @harryhay-fz7gs

    6 ай бұрын

    🎉

  • @Maxim.Nazarenko
    @Maxim.Nazarenko3 ай бұрын

    I never thought that Keanu Reeves knows so much about our universe.

  • @Flylikea

    @Flylikea

    28 күн бұрын

    😂😂😂

  • @geraltdelautreriv

    @geraltdelautreriv

    18 күн бұрын

    There's approximately 0,002% ressemblance

  • @Maxim.Nazarenko

    @Maxim.Nazarenko

    18 күн бұрын

    @@geraltdelautreriv Maybe.

  • @robertfrost5189
    @robertfrost51892 ай бұрын

    I am not a physicist, nor a scientist. I am a simple retail employee in California. But, if entanglement happens near the event horizon of a black hole and if, as professor Cox suggests, black holes have a finite lifespan, then could a black hole become large enough and live long enough to pull in so much matter over it's lifetime, that it could eventually collapse on itself again and then detonate as it did when it first went supernova? And if we have not observed or do not have the tools to measure such an occurrence, isn't it possible that our universe was once itself a black hole? If true, could there be other similar black holes that have spawned other universes? If so, because black holes bend the fabric of space time, isn't it possible that we simply aren't able to detect these other universes because the space time in these universes don't overlap? Professor Cox is far and away my favorite scientist to listen to.

  • @MonkeyJedi99
    @MonkeyJedi996 ай бұрын

    The escape velocity explanation just increased my understanding of the topic about 20-40%. And I have a B.S. in Physics and have been reading and learning about cosmology for a few decades. This alone makes the time spent watching worth more than I can tally.

  • @tylerchassie7273

    @tylerchassie7273

    6 ай бұрын

    Right? Why have I never head it explained that way before? Kind of annoys me and makes me happy at the same

  • @TheD4VR0S

    @TheD4VR0S

    6 ай бұрын

    heres what i dont understand : people can escape the first 100 thousand feet of earths gravity where gravity is at is strongest by traveling at only a few hundred mph (lockheed sr71) so why do they need to speed up to 8 miles per second to travel all the subsequent lots of 100k foot distances i'm pretty sure if a vehicle could maintain an upward motion of 10 mph it would eventually escape gravity or people could walk into space if there was a big enough mountain. edit: just found out the Saturn 5 rocket only had a max speed of 4.35 miles per second

  • @saf6996

    @saf6996

    6 ай бұрын

    Yup! Agree with you. This is a profoundly simple way to explain blackholes. Such a worthwhile lecture from Cox.

  • @sophosinio

    @sophosinio

    6 ай бұрын

    @@TheD4VR0S Saturn V never did escape the earth gravity though. Yes, it went to the moon, but it was still under the earth's influence. Planes don't escape the gravity, air resistance at high speed is generating enough lift to overcome the gravity.

  • @TheD4VR0S

    @TheD4VR0S

    6 ай бұрын

    @@sophosinio Are you claiming that if saturn 5 instead of going to the moon was instead traveling toward a distant star at 4.3 miles per second it wouldn't get there (granted it may take billions of years) it would only get there if its speed was greater than 6.9 miles per second ? ps: a if you want a star at a distance of greater than 4.5 billion light years because i know your going to claim that's how far earths gravity extends because of the age of the earth and the speed of gravity.

  • @Salad-Cream-Binge
    @Salad-Cream-Binge5 ай бұрын

    This is really well shot and edited. The music, the grading, the pacing, the closeups, the wides, the graphics. Cox seems very relaxed here and it's very well constructed as an edit. Thank you!

  • @Silverfish-qv8ig

    @Silverfish-qv8ig

    2 ай бұрын

    It's a horrible balance for his skin tone though! Brutal!

  • @PawlTV

    @PawlTV

    Ай бұрын

    Exactly. This is unbelievably pleasant to watch. Great work!

  • @davidstone-haigh4880
    @davidstone-haigh48805 ай бұрын

    These ease with which Brian explains subjects and his clear passion make science more accessible to all of us.

  • @wudangmtn
    @wudangmtn3 ай бұрын

    I won’t pretend to understand much of what he is saying, but I could listen to him all day.

  • @woutervanlent5181

    @woutervanlent5181

    Ай бұрын

    Me neither but here and there a sentence which makes it useful to listen . It must be fantastic if you have such brains . Quite lonely too i am afraid . With who can you talk ?

  • @simpleguy2557

    @simpleguy2557

    Күн бұрын

    @@woutervanlent5181 bro u wanna talk on these kinda topic??

  • @ericherman5413
    @ericherman54136 ай бұрын

    Dr. Cox is so good at telling all of us regular people about complex stuff.

  • @TheAslakVind

    @TheAslakVind

    6 ай бұрын

    Professor :)

  • @ababbington1

    @ababbington1

    6 ай бұрын

    @@TheAslakVindand a doctor. He is a PhD which is a Doctor of philosophy.

  • @bradgarrett7159

    @bradgarrett7159

    5 ай бұрын

    @@TheAslakVind He is a doctor, just not the medical type.

  • @ExtremeFader
    @ExtremeFader6 ай бұрын

    That part about space and time being an emergent property from something deeper and hidden made me cry. I am so moved by this video. It is so beautiful. Thank you. The mysteries of life unite us all.

  • @jivescript
    @jivescript3 ай бұрын

    when explaining these theories its so helpful to be able to see graphics and illustrations to help understand and imagine the what is being described.

  • @kristoffermaurer9689
    @kristoffermaurer96893 ай бұрын

    Simply amazing. If I had Brian as a teacher in school I would probably end up within the science field.

  • @2liter8
    @2liter86 ай бұрын

    This dude is a rare person. Someone you can listen to and who speaks slowly and clearly without redundancy and stumbling over words.

  • @kevinjenkins6986
    @kevinjenkins69866 ай бұрын

    Brian Cox is a brilliant teacher! I love hearing him speak because you can tell he genuinely understands the very big and very small pictures and is at the cutting edge of theorizing how they interact. It’s cool to think about how time “stops” inside a black hole, so as it is a point in space with no time. The thing that intrigues me is what happens to matter in the singularity, especially in a super massive black hole

  • @fett713akamandodragon5

    @fett713akamandodragon5

    6 ай бұрын

    It's a super dense mass of particles, quarks, bosons, leptons or fermions etc. For super massive Black Holes, I'd have to imagine it squashes down even beyond the particles we're aware of.

  • @TheAGreenA

    @TheAGreenA

    6 ай бұрын

    Time is impossible to imagine when entering a blackhole. Atoms that enter the blackhole get ripped apart into it’s smallest subatomic components and eventually squeezed into what is known as the singularity. As Brian Cox states we still don’t truly understand and probably will never understand what happens to matter when it enters into the blackhole and where it goes. Imagine gravity is so strong that light which travels at 671 million miles an hour cannot escape the gravitational pull of these monsters. At that speed you would be able to reach jupiter in less than hour. Just to give you an idea if you were to drive a car going 210 km/h on a straight highway towards jupiter it would take you 425 years to reach the gas giant…

  • @fett713akamandodragon5

    @fett713akamandodragon5

    5 ай бұрын

    @repentandbelieveinJesusChrist1 Your imaginary friend has no business in discussions of science, keep it to yourself freak.

  • @willkelly7370

    @willkelly7370

    5 ай бұрын

    It’s not really a point in space without time. Space-time is one construct. Keyword Brian used is time stops for the observer, if you were near the singularity time would still be moving normal for you. But for an external observer it would seem to stop. Such is the beauty of relativity

  • @fett713akamandodragon5

    @fett713akamandodragon5

    5 ай бұрын

    @@TheAGreenA The matter doesn't go anywhere but onto the singularity's surface, it's still a physical object.

  • @qfina
    @qfina4 ай бұрын

    Brian Cox is awesome. I have no place or business watching things like this, they go so far over my head. But somehow Brian makes it fascinating and curious, and keeps me hooked just with his enthusiasm.

  • @cadencopley1617
    @cadencopley16173 ай бұрын

    You can see how excited he gets about his work. It is beautiful

  • @Finutanslask
    @Finutanslask5 ай бұрын

    I could listen to Brian Cox all day, what a storyteller he is and he’s describing complicated and complex subjects so well.

  • @DudeSilad
    @DudeSilad4 ай бұрын

    That was the best explanation I've heard of black holes. When I watch or read anything about black holes, the information just bounces off my head, back into space! But some of that info actually got in!

  • @j.d.blitch5552
    @j.d.blitch55526 ай бұрын

    Big Think and Brian Cox is a dream combo. Need more of it.

  • @jameswilkes451
    @jameswilkes4516 ай бұрын

    Man... Brian Cox always manages to touch something within my soul and give this sense of incredible awe, especially in the way that he gets you to think about the most fundamental things in reality. It's all down to the way he says things; on a good day he can make you almost feel what the universe is trying to say, and his quote from Einstein "a glimpse into something deeply hidden" made me relate to the many times in my life where I almost came upon an incredible answer, then forgot about it moments later. Meditating on why things exist, while staring at things that exist just because, i.e. rocks, plants, clouds, can really get you into this state and provoke thought. Really thinking about why a rock exists, down into the small vibrations within the atomic lattice itself, really tickles something deep in my soul! Haha.

  • @remnantime3672

    @remnantime3672

    6 ай бұрын

    Try the bible it makes more sense

  • @Mellerrrs

    @Mellerrrs

    5 ай бұрын

    I absolutely love this comment

  • @xristosrizos8406

    @xristosrizos8406

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@remnantime3672why not the Lord of the Rings instead? It's a better fairy tale.

  • @remnantime3672

    @remnantime3672

    4 ай бұрын

    @@xristosrizos8406 . The bible is real... try reading it

  • @nikolaibuus5884

    @nikolaibuus5884

    4 ай бұрын

    lol@@remnantime3672

  • @rdsamsterdam6430
    @rdsamsterdam64304 ай бұрын

    I could listen beyond the borders of time listening to people like mr. Cox with their explanations and theories of space.

  • @thetriggerhappypwner
    @thetriggerhappypwner5 ай бұрын

    Brian Cox explained the mysteries of black holes so elegantly and precisely, that even I am impressed!

  • @andrewfrank7222
    @andrewfrank72226 ай бұрын

    Brian Cox simply speaks with clarity that most mortals do not have. He says thinks like “we don’t know” and makes it sound incredible !!

  • @joghaella9500
    @joghaella95006 ай бұрын

    Videos like this bring tears to my eyes because they make me realize just how small and irrelevant my daily life is, and how large and mysterious the world is. A black dot in space being not a place, but a moment in time? That is crazy to think about.

  • @mackieincsouthsea

    @mackieincsouthsea

    6 ай бұрын

    See for me, we're the birthright of such an immeasurably complex system alongside an impossibly unlikely chain of events. To me, that it ended with 8bn fleshy lumps that can shed a tear in awe of it, surely that's enough relevance, and in ways it all being connected makes nothing "small". I find it all fascinating!

  • @friedricengravy6646

    @friedricengravy6646

    5 ай бұрын

    As Carl Sagan reminded us in life & since through recorded messages. Yet, there r men who stake claim to & who kill to defend a tiny spec of land on a tiny planet in the vast space of the universe. (paraphrasing) It really makes borders & war seem ignorant, as we r all human beings living on a single planet. Imagine the progress & functionality of collective thought. Sharing resources, information, experience, & labor. What if human beings measured success by the fate of all humans? Good for many in place of the few…… What a world it would b. Instead we r lead by greed & fear.

  • @Coolcarting

    @Coolcarting

    5 ай бұрын

    @@friedricengravy6646 Who is lead by greed and fear?

  • @friedricengravy6646

    @friedricengravy6646

    5 ай бұрын

    @@Coolcarting 🙄 We live in a world where borders r created for 2 reasons, to protect the citizens & resources. Then at times, countries invade other countries for??? Land, resources, wealth, & power. Thats the macro level. We can then follow the same hierarchy down as far u like. To the state level? Local? Individual family? Personal space?? Its a generality only in the sense that some within the systems/structures/communities, r not focused on greed, wealth, & power, but otherwise, its exactly how our planet is organized. This is why I intentionally used the phrase ‘lead by’.

  • @jo2lovid

    @jo2lovid

    4 ай бұрын

    "A black dot in space being not a place, but a moment in time?" And what if that time is NOT the 'end of time', but the beginning of time. The release of Hawking radiation could then be the source of the beginning of the universe, the moment of the 'Big Bang'. Perhaps time would then be circular, where Black holes aggregate matter back to the beginning of time, and become the source of all data/matter again?

  • @donnythedealer9761
    @donnythedealer976110 күн бұрын

    Brian Cox was a part of my childhood, and he's now a part of my adulthood. He's remarkably good at explaining stuff.

  • @fatehalam
    @fatehalam4 ай бұрын

    It’s so amazing how this man can explain such complex ideas so easily. Just spectacular 🤩

  • @michaelsoderling9451
    @michaelsoderling94516 ай бұрын

    Mindblowing. Also: My deepest admiration for Dr. Cox's magic ability to make such a complex issue understandable to a layman.

  • @rbs6742
    @rbs67426 ай бұрын

    Amazing! Very well commented, explained and illustrated. Thanks, Big Think and Brian Cox.

  • @beckichaplin1974
    @beckichaplin19742 ай бұрын

    Black holes remind me of compost bins. You put the material in and it transforms into building blocks for something else. Fertile soil. Remarkable spark and curiosity, he has. Contagious. Brilliant.

  • @MrVaug
    @MrVaug4 ай бұрын

    The escape velocity explanation opened my eyes on black holes. So many more questions now, fascinating. The singularity, what is that made of? What atoms or parts of atoms are crushed together or is there maybe just one particle in its makeup that could go so dense that all other particles are expelled out as energy?

  • @rcchristian2
    @rcchristian26 ай бұрын

    I dig this guy so much! He is as compelling as Carl Sagan was before he died. This guy even though you can tell he's getting older... still looks like a lil boy... with that big smile he always has on his face.. that makes you smile. He explains things so easily and clearly! Please have this guy on more!

  • @HunangsgreifiEldklof
    @HunangsgreifiEldklof6 ай бұрын

    Absolutely blown away by your storytelling skills! Your soothing voice instantly turns any frown upside down. I'm so grateful for all the knowledge you share; it genuinely ignites a newfound interest in the content. Keep up the amazing work! 🙌 what a great human

  • @jaredklements729
    @jaredklements7297 күн бұрын

    This man has the calmest voice of any physicist that I’ve ever heard.

  • @user-cv2tc8ql7l
    @user-cv2tc8ql7l5 ай бұрын

    an excellent storyteller! That was such a great story and the way you told it was mesmerizing!

  • @B0bby1122
    @B0bby11226 ай бұрын

    One thing i find interesting is that before we observed black holes, equations showed such things exist. The same way Einstein equations showed that the universe is expanding before they observed it. So what about worm holes, although they may possibly not be naturally occurring, but the equations show they are possible. I see them as the key to allow us to be able to travel the universe, because even travelling at the speed of light is way too slow due to the size of the universe.

  • @BigNewGames

    @BigNewGames

    6 ай бұрын

    Einstein's equations did not show the universe was expanding before they observed it. It was astronomers who discovered galaxies were moving away from us in every direction, to which led them to assume a big bang happened which started it all. They assumed because all the galaxies were moving away from us that our galaxy was located at the center of the theorized big bang. Einstein claimed the universe was static, not expanding or contracting. Einstein didn't know if the effects of gravity were infinite or not. He first proposed, if a big bang happened and gravity was not infinite then the most distant galaxies would continue to move away from us at a constant. So he came up with his cosmological constant and gave it a zero value, for not expanding or contracting. On the other hand, he wasn't sure if the influence of gravity was infinite. So he proposed if it were infinite, then the most distant galaxies would be slowing down, come to a halt relative to us and then begin reversing directions till everything in the universe came back together in what he called a big crunch. Never did Einstein's equations predict an accelerating expanding universe because he assumed it was static. Then, Edwin Hubble observed the most distant galaxies were not slowing down but actually accelerating. Einstein then admitted the cosmological constant was his biggest blunder. In fact, his big crunch was another blunder. Never did his equations predict the accelerated expansion of space with distance. If his equations did, then why the heck would he assume the universe might end in a big crunch?

  • @joehebert789

    @joehebert789

    6 ай бұрын

    Wormholes are thought to be profoundly unstable as far as we can tell at this time. They will remain a mode of travel only in science fiction for quite a while, if not forever.

  • @B0bby1122

    @B0bby1122

    6 ай бұрын

    @@BigNewGames well in 1927 Georges Lemaître who worked along Einstein saw that the general theory of relativity equations suggested the universe is expanding. The equations were showing it but Einstein didn't like the idea. He wrote it in a paper. Then in 1929 Hubble was the first to observe the universe is expanding.

  • @axle.australian.patriot

    @axle.australian.patriot

    6 ай бұрын

    I really don't think the universe is expanding. I think it is just an illusion created out of the same concept as Inflation. More likely the universe is "Deflating" from my perspective :)

  • @ViTiiONz

    @ViTiiONz

    6 ай бұрын

    The difference is that there are no equations showing that wormholes should exist. It's true that there's no reason space couldn't distort such that 2 points touch and create a wormhole, but there's no equations pointing to any mechanism that would result in that happening. We know that spacetime in our universe is flat, so it's not really reasonable to expect it to be possible to distort it at our will to create wormholes between 2 places that we want to travel between. Your point about the universe being too big to travel even at the speed of light is also not quite accurate. Relativity tells us that time and length both distort with velocity. From the perspective of a photon, time doesn't pass at all as it travels. A photon will complete it's journey to infinity without any time passing at all. When we talk about light years, we're talking about the distance (as we measure it) that a photon can travel in a year from our frame of reference, not from the frame of reference of the photon. While we won't be able to travel at the speed of light, the closer we could get to it, the greater the distortion of time and length we will experience. If we ever do manage to explore the galaxy, it will likely be because we developed technology that allows us to travel at a great enough speed that these distances can actually be covered within a reasonable time frame.

  • @conversation1987
    @conversation19876 ай бұрын

    This is the simplest explanation I ever heard! Goal is really to meet him in person. Please more videos with him!

  • @LesterWayneDobos
    @LesterWayneDobos4 ай бұрын

    Best person I’ve heard talk about black holes. Quantum gravity sounds exciting, just getting some answers to nature’s deepest questions is the most awesomeness thing!

  • @Rasterizing
    @Rasterizing3 ай бұрын

    I'd love to have a conversation with Brian. You get the feeling you could ask him anything, and he'd be able to explain it, clearly. Despite him being incredibly smart, he never comes across as patronising or condescending! Amazing scientist and author!

  • @patrickvanrinsvelt4466

    @patrickvanrinsvelt4466

    3 ай бұрын

    My parents were friends with Edward Teller. I spent an evening with him at dinner as a scientific teen and was amazed. When I asked him a question he typically queried me further and made me come to my own conclusions. Scary.

  • @brittleann9823
    @brittleann98233 ай бұрын

    I love how he explained this! This is the first video about black holes that I've been able to fully comprehend and it made so much sense. 🖤

  • @trevoradams8675
    @trevoradams86754 ай бұрын

    I have so much respect for Brian Cox and his passion. Inspiring.

  • @shars.555
    @shars.5556 ай бұрын

    I so appreciate that Brian Cox with such an intelligent mind can explain things so clearly so that I can enjoy these fascinating concepts. Loved this video. Thank you. 🧘‍♂️🙏💙

  • @WaqasADay
    @WaqasADay6 ай бұрын

    “If you look at nature really carefully and keep pulling the intellectual threads, and keep going and keep delving down in what nature seems to be trying to tell us, then if you are lucky and persistent, you can catch a glimpse of something deeply hidden.”

  • @Shafiullahsoomro
    @ShafiullahsoomroАй бұрын

    He explained very gently. I never understood the things he said before until I listened him. Amazing

  • @dawnshoolah5047
    @dawnshoolah50476 ай бұрын

    I just love how Brian Cox explains things

  • @KrizTahimic
    @KrizTahimic6 ай бұрын

    What an amazing explanation! I'm already fascinated by the black hole/escape velocity explanation, but it keeps getting better! Didn't expect to reach up to the latest research and somehow feel I have a better grasp of it!

  • @user-sl5rq6sm4m

    @user-sl5rq6sm4m

    4 ай бұрын

    *Laughs in taxes*

  • @LikeALocofirefly
    @LikeALocofirefly4 ай бұрын

    My earbuds glitched for a minute throughout this so for a while his voice came in half a second late in one ear. 10/10 experience enjoyed hearing about physics from an echoey ethereal voice thanks Brian

  • @russbrewer2273
    @russbrewer22734 ай бұрын

    Brilliant and humble! It was such a pleasure to listen!

  • @alexhawes6690
    @alexhawes66906 ай бұрын

    This makes me feel like a small and insignificant part of the universe which is more comforting than I thought, nothing would be as bleak as knowing all, that would truly feel like the end.

  • @fancyhat6505

    @fancyhat6505

    3 ай бұрын

    We're small but far from insignificant. As far as we know, we are the only part of the universe that is capable of understanding itself. The only part where life has survived long enough to come up with "meaning".

  • @sohibjonsuhrobov1101
    @sohibjonsuhrobov11016 ай бұрын

    🙏 thanks for your invaluable time and effort!

  • @Yoshitoshi7
    @Yoshitoshi74 ай бұрын

    Just finished Cox's books on black holes, a MUST read for any black holes enthusiastics!

  • @Icemon09
    @Icemon095 ай бұрын

    This man makes me weep tears of joy and makes me feel grateful to be a part of something terrifyingly unknown. We know so little. And this weird thing that we call the universe, has no beginning or end. It breaks my mind of fear and sets me free to live my life.

  • @mattp.272
    @mattp.2724 ай бұрын

    He is not beyond simplifying his language and complex concepts so the non-scientist can understand, yet he stays on topic and explains the subject in a way that is still super interesting.

  • @Andrew-lo5sc
    @Andrew-lo5sc6 ай бұрын

    The way he describes it is very interesting. He genuinely wants to understand. His curiosity gives it away.

  • @everythingisalllies2141

    @everythingisalllies2141

    6 ай бұрын

    No, he genuinely want to tell you what to think. The real question should be "Why would anyone in their right mind believe in Black Holes"? And no, they dont have "photos of Black Holes" they have computer generated images of what they wanted to see.

  • @watts18269

    @watts18269

    6 ай бұрын

    @@everythingisalllies2141it must be so unbelievably tiring actively forcing yourself to be an ignoramus your whole life 😂

  • @everythingisalllies2141

    @everythingisalllies2141

    6 ай бұрын

    @@watts18269 better than not thinking at all, and just accepting nonsense pretending that its real science.

  • @kristofferninovaquilar8573
    @kristofferninovaquilar85736 ай бұрын

    More of Brian's understanding, please.

  • @photografr7
    @photografr7Ай бұрын

    In my youth, I was the co-director of a public observatory. But this discussion is all new to me.

  • @user-qo6jh9lg8y
    @user-qo6jh9lg8y4 ай бұрын

    I’ve read a lot about black holes even been to one of your shows Brian, but this with the computer animation is the best. Love it carry on doing what you do best

  • @Bc232klm
    @Bc232klm6 ай бұрын

    This is the best Big Think video in years. Thank you for this.

  • @robfut9954
    @robfut99546 ай бұрын

    I googled black holes on high school computer class. Got detention, never looked into them since.

  • @-cali-gbpacker559

    @-cali-gbpacker559

    3 ай бұрын

    😂😂

  • @armandobaltazar7294

    @armandobaltazar7294

    2 ай бұрын

    💀

  • @keanebergling4051

    @keanebergling4051

    2 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂😂

  • @JulioViza
    @JulioVizaАй бұрын

    The greatest storyteller of all time! It is such a joy to listen and learn these things with Brian! I am so happy I found this.

  • @abonilla131
    @abonilla13113 күн бұрын

    Best person to ever explain a complex subject regarding black holes

  • @phishhead42032
    @phishhead420326 ай бұрын

    He is a great educator. Got me interested in this subject. I wish I could turn back time and work in this field

  • @soupeducrayon
    @soupeducrayon6 ай бұрын

    This was food for my soul! Very well produced...& and Prof always delivers the knowledge

  • @eternalsharringan

    @eternalsharringan

    6 ай бұрын

    Ironic, considering these "scientists" are trying to tell you that you don't have a soul.

  • @alanbrown2888
    @alanbrown28882 ай бұрын

    Brian is a gift to science & understanding.

  • @wesleyb1458
    @wesleyb14582 ай бұрын

    This is really cool! I enjoy listening to Brian Cox explain things that otherwise I would not have understood

  • @gerhardgschwandtner8693
    @gerhardgschwandtner86936 ай бұрын

    Thank you Dr. Cox. Excellent presentations beyond any doubt. I think we simply don’t know, and human beings never will, what the “universe really is.” Space if infinite, I think, but no one really knows for sure.❤️

  • @darianw.
    @darianw.6 ай бұрын

    That’s so exciting! I would love to know more about the deeper nature of our universe. I think I was just born too early to understand all that. Maybe one day the humans will unlock all the secrets of the universe… Makes me crazy sometimes to know so little about the reality we life in

  • @BruderAdrian
    @BruderAdrian21 күн бұрын

    I've been listening to Brian Cox to go to bed for years now. He's an awesome dude I gotta say his soothing voice just gets me right every time.

  • @roy2689
    @roy26894 ай бұрын

    point on the remark made at 11.30 in the video, Brian Cox made a series of programs one of which described the beginning of the universe as a point whereby there was a region of infinite energy that had been there for an indefinite amount of time (time used loosely here), and for some unknown reason an event happened and all the energy was released and formed the universe, although the series was made some time ago now and obviously theories and ideas have changed since then...

  • @jamesjones5020
    @jamesjones50206 ай бұрын

    I've never been interested in black holes but this man engages you into his field of work quite extraordinary . I hope him and his colleagues have an astronomical discovery and it changes our concepts of black holes in general going forward . Mesmerising information.

  • @pondlakes

    @pondlakes

    6 ай бұрын

    the greatest ambassador for physics and space sciences of all time

  • @gollese

    @gollese

    5 ай бұрын

    How can black holes NOT interest someone.

  • @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

    @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

    4 ай бұрын

    It's crazy how fine tuned the universe is that we have life and not a universe that is just black holes.

  • @SteveNinetyski

    @SteveNinetyski

    4 ай бұрын

    All that says to me is that you have a malleable brain like most people in this era. "Oh I like blackholes now, because Brian has such a big smile and soft voice and overuses the word profound"

  • @SteveNinetyski

    @SteveNinetyski

    4 ай бұрын

    Also, while I am here...what is YOUR concept of a black hole? (considering you said you had no previous interest)...and how would you like "our concept of black holes to change"? Your comment is the epitome of typing words but saying nothing.

  • @SinisterBlackheart
    @SinisterBlackheart6 ай бұрын

    Imagine on the other side of all these blackholes the energy is converging onto one spot. It's being compressed until all the energy in our universe is absorbed into the one singularity. It wouldn't be the process of entropy and acting chaotic, instead, it would be through the process of negentropy and becoming orderly. Eventually, the universe goes through labor and gives birth resulting in the big bang and tearing a hole back into this universe. The birth of a new universe, to grow and expand and eventually die again. The infinite cycle of life.

  • @anmolagrawal5358
    @anmolagrawal53584 ай бұрын

    He explains in such a soothing and clear fashion

  • @jeffsiegwart
    @jeffsiegwart5 ай бұрын

    You are capturing the imaginations of many people in a very intimidating topic. Thank you.

  • @chem7553
    @chem75536 ай бұрын

    Brian Cox really makes this science feel magical

  • @ito2789
    @ito27896 ай бұрын

    This was beautifully presented and spoken. Dr. Cox is not only a brilliant scientist but a poet IMO.

  • @SheSweetLikSugarNSavage
    @SheSweetLikSugarNSavage4 ай бұрын

    That was lovely and yet so sad. I never thought I could feel sad for a black hole. But the way he explains it makes sense... death of the star separated them but they are entangled. The other can not enter into the darkness, and must go into the light and because they are forever entangled what happens to the one happens to the other. And this keeps repeating with each particle until they are all rejoined.... until finally the black hole is gone. They're rejoined because of the entanglement like star-crossed lovers...? But where did they go?😢❤

  • @user-om6gr5bn8k
    @user-om6gr5bn8k3 ай бұрын

    That makes complete sense, the burning book analogy makes this very easy to understand. A black hole is like a blender it just takes everything and makes it to its smallest form and spits it out thank you for explaining this

  • @n1msu
    @n1msu5 ай бұрын

    I've not heard from Brian Cox for a good few years now, he is a remarkable teacher, and certainly hasn't lost his passion or his ability to teach in a way that most people can understand.

  • @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

    @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

    4 ай бұрын

    Aside from pretending the universe never had a finite start because it refutes his Atheism. That's an interesting way to teach science...

  • @brandonmcgregor9912

    @brandonmcgregor9912

    3 ай бұрын

    @@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep I take it you don't know what a "theory" is.

  • @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

    @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

    3 ай бұрын

    @@brandonmcgregor9912 I take it you don't know mankinds most proven knowledge the spacetime theorems have established the universe is not cyclical or eternal thus requires a finite start thus causal agent. Clearly you haven't the vaguest clue what I was referencing.

  • @brandonmcgregor9912

    @brandonmcgregor9912

    3 ай бұрын

    @@WaterspoutsOfTheDeep You are whining about Brian Cox "pretending" the universe never had a finite start. It's a *working theory*. Hence I suggested you don't know what a theory is as it is not a proven and undeniable fact. And then making a leap to insult his atheism. You are just acting childish. Not to mention you are clearly being verbose to try and sound more clever than you actually are.

  • @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

    @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep

    3 ай бұрын

    @@brandonmcgregor9912 lmao I don't think you realize how much of a fool you are making of yourself. By your definition everything in all of human history is "theory" and can be denied outside of basically just math. There is no absolute proof of anything outside of basically just some math. Clearly we do not function as the ridiculous notion you just presented. It's actually mind boggling how dense you are to even have no self awareness to post something so utterly nonsensical.

  • @eatmoreporkporky4342
    @eatmoreporkporky43426 ай бұрын

    He's the best for comcise explanations of abstract ideas to the layman. His sense of wonder is contagious, he senses the magic of things.

  • @TheSSB007
    @TheSSB007Ай бұрын

    One of the best and clear explanations i have seen on hawking radiation

  • @maryghaemi8801
    @maryghaemi88015 ай бұрын

    His voice explaining tough subjects is stil comforting

  • @invox9490
    @invox94906 ай бұрын

    The thing is, we don't really understand how fast black holes form, so we can't really know how fast they evaporate. We we're suprised to see so many, and so big right, at the beguinning of the universe, so (and I know they say it hasn't been enough time for any to disapear, but) what if they turn into something else instead of just disapearing? And I just wanna had: the editing, the music, Brian and his talk made this one of the best BT videos I've seen in a long time. Congrats to the team.

  • @y3rdop478
    @y3rdop4784 ай бұрын

    That was something so deep and beautiful ending ❤😊totally mesmerize the soul

  • @OriginalPuro
    @OriginalPuro3 ай бұрын

    Brian Cox is the Sir David Attenborough of physics, give us more of him. As much as possible. Science is awesome. PS: This is the type of video and information that should be shown EVERYWHERE, always. I am sorry, I hate capitalizing as if I am screaming, but I will do it this one time.

  • @bobbelleci9995
    @bobbelleci99955 ай бұрын

    And ... Yes, Brian has a way of giving a good speech that makes or helps you understand concepts like black holes. But, I didn't take physics in college so for me, whenever I pick up a book on physics I actually have to re-read the page or other a few times to just partially get it. 😅 Yeah, and years ago at a book store I saw one titled: Schrodinger's Cat. A particle or a wave. In the box they could be both until it's observed. Entanglement theory. 😂 That's amazing!

  • @obied1182
    @obied11824 ай бұрын

    John wick after going to school

  • @AF92.

    @AF92.

    28 күн бұрын

    😂

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