Comments on: 2487: The Utter Insignificance of You and Everything You've Ever Known

By: judsartwork

judsartwork — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 22:46:25 +0000

Pete watch all the Brian Cox programs on TV, and all the COSMOS Series 1 & 2 – ie Carl Sagan Series and the most recent Series – then watch all the 'Universe' programs you can. You will find that your knowledge increases as you watch them, and they cover similar areas of Astro-Physics and Cosmology. It will rekindle that interest and delight and fascination with Space, the Solar system, the Universe and Everything! 😀 After all many of the games you play involve Science Fiction. I immerse myself in it and always have done. I'm sure you're aware of my Space paintings – just finished Andromeda Galaxy. 😀

By: descarte25

descarte25 — Fri, 11 Nov 2016 03:31:48 +0000

In reply to Pete Davison. Nice, super glad to hear that the lectures get much more in depth. I might even be willing to travel to see one now.

By: Pete Davison

Pete Davison — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:42:28 +0000

In reply to descarte25. My friend Tom, who's a lot more into this stuff than I am, pointed out that Cox's "popular media" work tends to be a lot more layman-friendly, presumably to attract people without scaring them away, while events such as this evening were designed to cater to people who, like you, crave a little more. Tonight's lecture was certainly on the heavier side and obviously aimed at people who already have a certain amount of interest and emotional investment in the subject, but it was interesting nonetheless, even as a relative layman. (I was interested in science in my youth, but dropped studying it in post-16 education... there are days when I kind of wish I hadn't!) He got well into the mathematics of a lot of things, so I think you'd have enjoyed it and perhaps might have got a little more out of it than I did! :) It was time well spent, though. Nice to get away from the noise of the Internet and be reminded of our place in the cosmos.

By: descarte25

descarte25 — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 23:33:44 +0000

I like the books Brian Cox has written a lot. They are a bit too layman for me, eschewing almost the entirety of the mathematical framework to the physics, but they are still fun to read. I would love to attend a lecture given by him. For my first 10 years after high school I was mostly into particle physics and nuclear engineering, but slowly I started to realize that the ultra-small did not interest me as much as astrophysics and cosmology. So ever since that point I've been more heavily into that side of the physical universe and theory. I've even done some top level research with ultra-high energy cosmic waves with a research University.