VARIOUS MEDIA: Cosmologist Brian Cox on the meaning of life

  • Brian Cox

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    There's a remarkable moment at the British Consulate in Hong Kong when, ten minutes before physics professor and TV personality Brian Cox is just about to deliver a promotional speech in front of journalists, a man who spends half his life looking for evidence of creation's beginning as long as four billion years ago in the cosmos, looks up at the projection screen and says there's so much light shining through that he can't see. Is there a blind that can be lowered, he asks? No. "Okay, I'll do my best, but you'll just have to come to the show to see these images," he jokes, with his mix of wild-eyed, disciplined-mind, boy wonder-esque persona. Cox is referring to his "stadium cosmology" performance, the Professor Brian Cox Universal World Tour, which will land in Hong Kong on June 5, and also visits Singapore, New Zealand and Australia.

    Period20 May 2019 → 21 May 2019

    Media coverage

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    Media coverage

    • TitleOur future is as Martians, says Brian Cox
      Media name/outletThe Times
      Media typeWeb
      Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
      Date21/05/19
      DescriptionColonising Mars has long been the stuff of science fiction. Now one of Britain’s most prominent scientists says it may be the only way to save humankind.

      Brian Cox, the BBC presenter and professor of particle physics at the University of Manchester, has thrown his weight behind plans such as those of the billionaire Elon Musk to establish a city on the Red Planet.
      URLhttps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/our-future-is-as-martians-says-cox-258qx30cx
      PersonsBrian Cox
    • TitleCosmologist Brian Cox on the meaning of life
      Media name/outletChina Daily
      Media typeWeb
      Country/TerritoryChina
      Date20/05/19
      DescriptionThere's a remarkable moment at the British Consulate in Hong Kong when, ten minutes before physics professor and TV personality Brian Cox is just about to deliver a promotional speech in front of journalists, a man who spends half his life looking for evidence of creation's beginning as long as four billion years ago in the cosmos, looks up at the projection screen and says there's so much light shining through that he can't see. Is there a blind that can be lowered, he asks? No. "Okay, I'll do my best, but you'll just have to come to the show to see these images," he jokes, with his mix of wild-eyed, disciplined-mind, boy wonder-esque persona. Cox is referring to his "stadium cosmology" performance, the Professor Brian Cox Universal World Tour, which will land in Hong Kong on June 5, and also visits Singapore, New Zealand and Australia.
      URLwww.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201905/20/WS5ce242c3a3104842260bca82.html
      PersonsBrian Cox

    Keywords

    • physics
    • astronomy
    • space exploration
    • Mars