Brian Cox's Honest Opinion Of Oppenheimer

Brian is such a chill bloke

He made me feel better when he said to stop worrying about infinity and time travel. '' It's beyond our comprehension.''

Waving hands…favorite motion of Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

I dont like people who tell us what "we" know or dont know. Or we're all anxious about...etc. How the hell do you know what I think or know?

Ignorance is bliss!!

I remember Cosmos with Carl Sagan running on our national TV in the early-to-mid 80's or so! I have no idea now (I was born in '67) what the series was actually about, but I learned to question things (well, everything!). So I'm either better off, or worse. Either way, I'll always enjoy thinking I'm now knowing more than I did yesterday! Oops...

The Nkosi Paradox "The relentless pursuit of the 'Singularity' has come to define our very existence, for if 'it' were to be found, no Faith, Religion, Priest, Philosopher nor Poet will survive; now that is too ghastly to contemplate."

Only to three channels... but 10 x the quality.

I agree with all that has been said about Brian, never the less I suggest that you should also know Jim al-khalili, both are great cientist that let us know their knowledge and understand that we are made of atoms and particles that change constantly so we are part of the universe like it or not...
Thanks to Brian I got to know Jim.

I'm glad this is his honest opinion of Oppenheimer. I've already viewed his dishonest opinion.

Communicator supreme.

The music is too loud making it hard to hear the dialogue

3 seconds in, “I think it’s a masterpiece”

Okay I guess that’s his opinion.

The bedrocks on which we can build understanding are few indeed. In our material World, the World where we can detect energy transitions, we have limited capabilities. We can count the things we can detect. e.g. if we put 3 marbles in a box, we know that every time we look in the box it will have three marbles unless there has been more added or removed. We have a spatial understanding of symmetry and some other geometric properties. We have logical deduction, although that could be construed as a merger of the two previous capabilities.

I'd just like to say that there are lots of people who spend their lives imparting really complex ideas to young people. They are teachers, they might not work at the level of Brian Cox but they also don't have the resources either. It would be nice if all teachers got the respect of those that also work in media.

I saw the Sam Waterston version in the 1980s a BBC series which was good too.

Very intelligent Jews with J. Robert Oppenheimer and Brian Cox and reminds me Jurassic Park directed by Steven Spielberg.

Simply love listening to Prof Brian Cox because he never makes you feel you lack knowledge and understanding. You leave feeling there is so much even the experts don’t understand. 🌟

The biggest mistake man made the atomic bomb

I really iike Brian Cox. It is is an interesting connection here to see him commenting here on Oppenheimer (who I also have high regard for), who was played by the actor Cillian Murphy in the recent movie. I have thought for a long time that Brian Cox looks a bit like Cillian Murphy. So this is sort of a weird 3-way coincidence.

Carl Sagan was a good educator and greatly missed.

Where is the honest opinion on Oppy ? It is more about “myself” … what a bore

Very important conversation here. Brian Cox might not know about an aspect of Anglo law that deals with science in an abstract way. The Anglo-Law has a pretty neat concept of criminal behavior. It requires a "Scienter" or criminal intent. Notice the root of the word is the same as for the one for "science." as Brian is using it.
I think that The idea of dancing to music by voluntary heterosexual couples is a unique ultra-civil behavior. Yet some religions have turned it into something vile and ugly by their "Scientific" analysis. Elon Musk, who is obviously a scientist of sorts, does something unique that the crowds love: He dances badly! A unique admission of a kind of important ignorance. Brian alludes to this IMPORTANT admission of ignorance in his exploration of science.

But Cox, like Tyson, and Sagan still get attacked by evanglicals and Christian’s, because they disprove god 100%.

There's also a psychopathology of science where it's reptitious questioning yields results that aren't always salutary but the path to it is revered beyond measure.

Humility makes people pretty relatable.

You can have an honest opinion : doesn’t necessarily follow that it’s right

I had a collage educator who told all his classes. " it is not important that you know everything! it is important that you know where to go and how to get the answers you need to accomplish your goals" . Brian is saying the about same thing.

Yes Brian keeps me interested in science

Brian Cox is so easy to listen to and also is a Legend

Who actually gives a fuck what a lightweight media personality cares about the great man

Nolan (and Cox) is a genius one bomb in the movie the Trinity in New Mexico. That's genius and Particles and Waves it's a paradox but it works

I wish the movie was more about the science and less about the love life and politics of Oppenheimer. Not a masterpiece in my opinion.

The person I'd most like to have a pint with.

One of the most boring movies ever.

Brian’s key takeaway about the nub of modern science is exactly what drove me away. It basically works like this: theories are true until someone disproves them. Sounds logical, right? But it creates this underlying theme of negativity throughout academia. And that was my difficulty with it, I could not continue operating in a fundamentally negative space.

the movie is not a masterpiece. i walked out with more than half to go. READ the BOOK! you'll know what I mean

I’m a Mancunian like Brian and of similar age, he sounds very much like a kid I could’ve grown up alongside and been good friends with in the 1970s. He’s very likeable and passionate about his interests and communicates that extremely well.

Commenting so I can watch later.

"The more you learn, the more you realize that you don't know". i love prof BC

I do enjoy how the title of the video is literally a single sentence in the entire 11 minute video.

Loved Oppenheimer and loved Carl Sagan’s ‘Cosmos’ - I saw it when I was a little kid on our ABC in Australia. I watched it with my Dad and that was special. Car was an incredible communicator and so is Brian…..

I love people like Brian, Ian Stewart (i love geology and Ian helped to nurse that love), and Neil deGrasse Tyson who are great teachers of science in the way that people can truly understand. Carl Sagan was a big hero of mine, as well as Lady Ada Lovelace and rear admiral Grace Hopkins!

Does he get that Oppenheimer facilitated mass murder on an obscene scale?

Who the hell cares what this guy thinks…he looks like he could be married to Ellen Degenerous

Why do i see a divide.

And to think Brian was the science advisor on Sunshine and tutored Cillian Murphy. He also took Cillian to CERN to meet the physicists which Cillian used for Oppenheimer.

I should be so lucky as to look like Brian Cox at age 55.

Nice discussion. Prof. Brian Cox is a national treasure. I agree that self-honesty is critical to understanding anything.