Then he goes off to hunt for a particle which may or may not exist...
This kind of statement only further demonstrates a lack of understanding of the subject.
You are likely referring to the Higgs' boson, which is predicted to exist by the Standard Model. The Standard Model has been around for a while and has worked well at predicting other things that have been experimentally shown to be true. If the Higgs particle did not exist, the implications would be *massive*, and this would actually be more exciting to physicists (albeit a bit of a headache) than if the particle were to be found. It's very important that the Standard Model be tested since it underpins such a lot of understanding.
On the other hand, perhaps the reason no-one has ever done such a study is that there is nothing to study and ghosts are entirely fictional...
The amount of people who have experienced ghosts would suggest there's something to them, even if it is just some weird hallucination of the mind. A study might find out why such mind weirdness might happen....As for ghosts in photos, most are double exposures, dust or fakes..but there is a very small percentage that defy explanation.
But anyway, it doesn't really matter! All I was trying to say is Brian Cox acted like a proper tit which is why I like him a lot less than I used too! Should have just said that at the start really! :D
The amount of people who have experienced ghosts would suggest there's something to them, even if it is just some weird hallucination of the mind. A study might find out why such mind weirdness might happen....As for ghosts in photos, most are double exposures, dust or fakes..but there is a very small percentage that defy explanation.
But anyway, it doesn't really matter! All I was trying to say is Brian Cox acted like a proper tit which is why I like him a lot less than I used too! Should have just said that at the start really! :D
yeah talking about ghosts on this forum is like bringing up jimmy saviles charity work on mumsnet.
This kind of statement only further demonstrates a lack of understanding of the subject.
You are likely referring to the Higgs' boson, which is predicted to exist by the Standard Model. The Standard Model has been around for a while and has worked well at predicting other things that have been experimentally shown to be true. If the Higgs particle did not exist, the implications would be *massive*, and this would actually be more exciting to physicists (albeit a bit of a headache) than if the particle were to be found. It's very important that the Standard Model be tested since it underpins such a lot of understanding.
No, I understand it perfectly well. It's just it's a particle that was still subject to conjecture and warranted further experimentation. I know that the Standard Model has so far proven very useful...what I'm getting at is that Higgs Boson was still to be proven, making it a bit cheeky to be so dismissive of other unproven subjects just because they seem stupid to him...if he'd just said it was unlikely ghosts were anything other than in the mind or something then fair enough. But he didn't....
What these people are choosing to ignore is that there have been plenty of rigorous studies of people who claim to have supernatural abilities or to see spirits, and whenever they are tested under controlled conditions they turn out to be able to do or see nothing. But because that's not the answer these people want to hear, they want to see it done again. And again. And again.
Couldn't really stand his manner like some swot or other at school but I've just read 'The Quantum Universe - Everything that can happen does happen' which he co-wrote with Jeff Forshaw and it is an excellent book. Explains the quantum interference very well with an analogy of clocks to a complex vector space.
I suspect the Forshaw gadge wrote it though and Cox's name was tagged on for sales purposes...
Maybe he was a bit rude - I didn't see his response - but I doubt he goes out of his way to interfere with spiritualists, or goes round kicking old ladies who claim to see the future. But similarly it's a little untoward to gatecrash a science broadcast with supernatural beliefs.
But there will always be these beliefs while there are (a) gullible people and (b) someone who wants your money/vote telling you it's true.
We will never see the likes of Patrick Moore on TV again. Presenters have to be youngish, photogenic, or cute and cuddly to get on the screens now. Its like one massive Blue Peter episode.
We will never see the likes of Patrick Moore on TV again. Presenters have to be youngish, photogenic, or cute and cuddly to get on the screens now. Its like one massive Blue Peter episode.
Maybe they should rename themselves the BPBC (Blue Peter Broadcasting Corporation).
Maybe he was a bit rude - I didn't see his response - but I doubt he goes out of his way to interfere with spiritualists, or goes round kicking old ladies who claim to see the future. But similarly it's a little untoward to gatecrash a science broadcast with supernatural beliefs.
But there will always be these beliefs while there are (a) gullible people and (b) someone who wants your money/vote telling you it's true.
It wasn't during a broadcast..it was just something someone had said on twitter..
It was also nothing to do with Spiritualists or people who claim to have "supernatural powers"...neither of which you have to be or believe in to believe a study of ghosts and/or other slightly odd things is warranted.
Not everyone who believes in ghosts thinks they're the spirits of the deceased. Just as not everyone who has seen a UFO believes it to be filled with little green..or grey... men. Nor does someone who believes in one necessarily believe in the other....
We will never see the likes of Patrick Moore on TV again. Presenters have to be youngish, photogenic, or cute and cuddly to get on the screens now. Its like one massive Blue Peter episode.
I'm hoping they keep The Sky At Night going with the guys who have been doing most of the presenting anyway for the last few years....I wouldn't say any of them were particularly cute or cuddly though! :lol:
yeah talking about ghosts on this forum is like bringing up *durty bast* charity work on mumsnet.
admit it.. you logged in under a fake name and trolled it up like a goodun (I know you didn't)
joking aside... every time that c*** is mentioned in the media NSPCC should get some money from it. I don't wanna hear his name.. he doesn't deserve the air of ANY publicity.
I feel sorry also sorry for the kids who are "our age" who may have bigged up the dirty **** to their own kids, not knowing the facts they do now.
I don't get why some parent, who was told by their kid didn't knock the living c*** out of him TBH when he was alive... regardless of who he was.
Just as not everyone who has seen a UFO believes it to be filled with little green..or grey... men. Nor does someone who believes in one necessarily believe in the other....
Well quite, anyone who doesn't believe in UFOs is an idiot :)
joking aside... every time that c*** is mentioned in the media NSPCC should get some money from it. I don't wanna hear his name.. he doesn't deserve the air of ANY publicity.
I feel sorry also sorry for the kids who are "our age" who may have bigged up the dirty **** to their own kids, not knowing the facts they do now.
I don't get why some parent, who was told by their kid didn't knock the living c*** out of him TBH when he was alive... regardless of who he was.
I read in a news article the other day that quoted a chief police as saying 'Jimmy Saville groomed the whole nation'. That made my blood boil.
Saw Prof Cox on the TV last night where he was relating physics to evolution and nature. It was quite good, but very BBC. For example why go to the austrailian outback, with some blocks of wood just to describe the mathematical relationship between mass, gravity and the greater damage inflicted on heavier items when thrown from the same height.
I've noticed Prof Cox likes to use alternate pronunciations for things. Like last night he pronounced Achilles as 'A-cull-eaze' rarher than the more comon Ah-Kill-eys.
You just know a million spotty oiks accross the country (perticularly in schools) are now going to try to smugly shoehorn the word 'A-cull-leys' into a conversation.
so ya warming to dear brian then ? I'll write in to err surprise surprise for ya so ya can meet him :)
if ya still can't stand to watch him.. watch "the attack of ninja mutant penguins robots" on bbc1 as I like to call it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01460gm
For me, Brian Cox is that guy Paul Whitehouse played on The Fast Show in a woolly hat and yellow mac walking along a pavement and promenade saying "Aren't cars brilliant? Cos you can get in them and drive anywhere, like to the beach and get fish and chips. Aren't fish brilliant? 'cos they can breathe underwater" etc. the morning after as the drugs ease off.
Next time the BBC fly him half way round the world so he can pose with one foot raised on the top of Mauna Kea just wait for him to come out with "The universe, is fookin brilliant".
Next time the BBC fly him half way round the world so he can pose with one foot raised on the top of Mauna Kea just wait for him to come out with "The universe, is fookin brilliant".
that'd make a good sketch for comic relief :lol: and he'd do it I bet.. I do miss the fast show.
he's just a bit over enthusiastic I guess and it comes across the wrong way.
this is where I saw him already :) >
the one that makes me laugh is the gok wan one where he plays him as a straight bloke pretending
Yeah, he's got him down to a tea there :lol: My only issue with John (and you can hear it here slightly) is that you can always hear his own voice under the impression he's doing. This one's very good though :D
My only issue with John (and you can hear it here slightly) is that you can always hear his own voice under the impression he's doing.
do know what you mean by that, but compared to a fair few of the 80's lot it's good.. or maybe that's the make up. I guess some people are easier to do than others. tbh I think it's the octave of his voice, it is a bit low.. thats why maybe it stands out a bit.
the actor who does the same is that Michael Sheen who played clough / frost and blair. I forget it's him, also.
Michael Sheen never tried to do the voice, just the way of speaking and the mannerisms - which he does brilliantly. There are some that John Culshaw does well (Tom Baker particularly) and others where it's more obviously him. Rory Bremner is another like that.
I didn't realise that Peter Serafinowicz was such a good mimic. I heard him on the radio with Terry Wogan. He kept up his impression for about an hour and you couldn't tell them apart.
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This kind of statement only further demonstrates a lack of understanding of the subject.
You are likely referring to the Higgs' boson, which is predicted to exist by the Standard Model. The Standard Model has been around for a while and has worked well at predicting other things that have been experimentally shown to be true. If the Higgs particle did not exist, the implications would be *massive*, and this would actually be more exciting to physicists (albeit a bit of a headache) than if the particle were to be found. It's very important that the Standard Model be tested since it underpins such a lot of understanding.
most spirits you find in pubs are at least 40% proof, so they've got an unfair advantage :-D
The amount of people who have experienced ghosts would suggest there's something to them, even if it is just some weird hallucination of the mind. A study might find out why such mind weirdness might happen....As for ghosts in photos, most are double exposures, dust or fakes..but there is a very small percentage that defy explanation.
But anyway, it doesn't really matter! All I was trying to say is Brian Cox acted like a proper tit which is why I like him a lot less than I used too! Should have just said that at the start really! :D
yeah talking about ghosts on this forum is like bringing up jimmy saviles charity work on mumsnet.
No, I understand it perfectly well. It's just it's a particle that was still subject to conjecture and warranted further experimentation. I know that the Standard Model has so far proven very useful...what I'm getting at is that Higgs Boson was still to be proven, making it a bit cheeky to be so dismissive of other unproven subjects just because they seem stupid to him...if he'd just said it was unlikely ghosts were anything other than in the mind or something then fair enough. But he didn't....
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I suspect the Forshaw gadge wrote it though and Cox's name was tagged on for sales purposes...
Anyway its a brilliant book.
But there will always be these beliefs while there are (a) gullible people and (b) someone who wants your money/vote telling you it's true.
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Maybe they should rename themselves the BPBC (Blue Peter Broadcasting Corporation).
heh, I wonder if they will release a complete boxed set :), (usual lost BBC 60's broadcasts notwithstanding)
It wasn't during a broadcast..it was just something someone had said on twitter..
It was also nothing to do with Spiritualists or people who claim to have "supernatural powers"...neither of which you have to be or believe in to believe a study of ghosts and/or other slightly odd things is warranted.
Not everyone who believes in ghosts thinks they're the spirits of the deceased. Just as not everyone who has seen a UFO believes it to be filled with little green..or grey... men. Nor does someone who believes in one necessarily believe in the other....
I'm hoping they keep The Sky At Night going with the guys who have been doing most of the presenting anyway for the last few years....I wouldn't say any of them were particularly cute or cuddly though! :lol:
admit it.. you logged in under a fake name and trolled it up like a goodun (I know you didn't)
joking aside... every time that c*** is mentioned in the media NSPCC should get some money from it. I don't wanna hear his name.. he doesn't deserve the air of ANY publicity.
I feel sorry also sorry for the kids who are "our age" who may have bigged up the dirty **** to their own kids, not knowing the facts they do now.
I don't get why some parent, who was told by their kid didn't knock the living c*** out of him TBH when he was alive... regardless of who he was.
Well quite, anyone who doesn't believe in UFOs is an idiot :)
I read in a news article the other day that quoted a chief police as saying 'Jimmy Saville groomed the whole nation'. That made my blood boil.
I've noticed Prof Cox likes to use alternate pronunciations for things. Like last night he pronounced Achilles as 'A-cull-eaze' rarher than the more comon Ah-Kill-eys.
You just know a million spotty oiks accross the country (perticularly in schools) are now going to try to smugly shoehorn the word 'A-cull-leys' into a conversation.
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Still a very interesting show.
if ya still can't stand to watch him.. watch "the attack of ninja mutant penguins robots" on bbc1 as I like to call it.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01460gm
For me, Brian Cox is that guy Paul Whitehouse played on The Fast Show in a woolly hat and yellow mac walking along a pavement and promenade saying "Aren't cars brilliant? Cos you can get in them and drive anywhere, like to the beach and get fish and chips. Aren't fish brilliant? 'cos they can breathe underwater" etc. the morning after as the drugs ease off.
Next time the BBC fly him half way round the world so he can pose with one foot raised on the top of Mauna Kea just wait for him to come out with "The universe, is fookin brilliant".
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that'd make a good sketch for comic relief :lol: and he'd do it I bet.. I do miss the fast show.
he's just a bit over enthusiastic I guess and it comes across the wrong way.
this is where I saw him already :) >
the one that makes me laugh is the gok wan one where he plays him as a straight bloke pretending
Yeah, he's got him down to a tea there :lol: My only issue with John (and you can hear it here slightly) is that you can always hear his own voice under the impression he's doing. This one's very good though :D
do know what you mean by that, but compared to a fair few of the 80's lot it's good.. or maybe that's the make up. I guess some people are easier to do than others. tbh I think it's the octave of his voice, it is a bit low.. thats why maybe it stands out a bit.
the actor who does the same is that Michael Sheen who played clough / frost and blair. I forget it's him, also.
I didn't realise that Peter Serafinowicz was such a good mimic. I heard him on the radio with Terry Wogan. He kept up his impression for about an hour and you couldn't tell them apart.
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