Brian Cox - rock star physicist?

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Brian Cox - rock star physicist?

Post by Rum » Fri Apr 20, 2018 9:14 pm

Mrs Rum spotted this and knowing my interests asked if I fancied going next Feb (early booking recommended!).

I took a look and two tickets would cost us 105 quid and considering that I read New Scientist and a load of web sites to keep as up to date with his and others' physics/cosmology stuff as my mathematically challenged mind can manage - I decided not. Didn't take long either.

I'm a fan - don't get me wrong. Popularising science - and especially critical and rational thinking seems to be a pretty high priority in the era of Trump and movable truth - even so I find myself feeling a tad uncertain about this sort of approach.

If the tickets were 20 quid I'd probably take a punt mind you.

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http://www.metroradioarena.co.uk/events ... brian-cox/

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Post by JimC » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:00 pm

I gather he's the thinking woman's crumpet...
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:14 pm

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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri Apr 20, 2018 10:17 pm

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Post by Rum » Sat Apr 21, 2018 1:23 pm

It seems I am 'stuck in a rut', so we are going after all. :bored:

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Post by JimC » Sat Apr 21, 2018 10:38 pm

"She who must be obeyed"

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Post by cronus » Sun Apr 22, 2018 3:54 am

Far too touchy-feely in that dodgy pathos driven way. He reminds me of a seventies TV presenter. Waiting for some major indiscretion to make the news. Know what I mean? :read:
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Post by Joe » Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:17 am

Drawing a blank.
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Post by cronus » Sun Apr 22, 2018 4:38 am

Things can only get better, you know?

New Labour theme tune before Blair slew half Iraq and had a hundred women....on call. Need to be here in the UK to get the lower middle class common mood angle here...I guess. :tea:

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Post by Joe » Sun Apr 22, 2018 5:15 am

I'd love to visit and find out, but it's too damned expensive for a poor Yank like me.
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Post by cronus » Sun Apr 22, 2018 6:14 am

Joe wrote:I'd love to visit and find out, but it's too damned expensive for a poor Yank like me.
It'll be coming down in price, but be quick, like Brigadoon won't last long one way or another. :read:
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Post by Rum » Sun Apr 22, 2018 7:29 am

What?

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Post by JimC » Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:01 am

Rum wrote:What?
Crumple is intimating that the UK is doomed. Quelle surprise!

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Post by pErvinalia » Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:37 am

Did he ever make sense, or has he always been incoherent? :?
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