Last night, I dragged the current Mrs M along to a lecture talk on cosmology given by Professor Brian Cox.
To be fair, she came willingly. “You never know, I might enjoy it”, she said.
It started with lots of pretty pictures of stars and galaxies and over the next ninety minutes he went on to explain formation and expansion of the universe, ending on black hole singularities and event horizons, even using some ‘simple’ maths to explain black hole temperatures and Hawking Radiation.
It was fascinating.
Mrs M held up surprisingly well and found much of it very interesting, but I thnk that by the time we had reached Einstein’s General Theory, time in the theatre was moving somewhat slower for her than it was for me.
Relatively, of course.
I watch a lot of his lectures online; he’s a compelling speaker and his subject knowledge is top class. Well done to you both. Last night I watched a film ‘suggested’ by the good lady wife her indoors and time did indeed pass excruciatingly slowly, even though temporal mechanics and Einsteinian theory played no role in the plot.
He knows his stuff and he knows how to drum it in to people.
Just as well Mrs M was ok with it, otherwise you would have been seeing stars.
Wouldn’t be the first time.
Oh! I like Brian Cox! Good on Mrs M! Perhaps she quite fancies Brian? I mean, I’ve always thought he was an alien because not only is he super smart, he never seems to age…
Cliff Richard’s bastard love child.
I am gutted that I did not know he was at waterside