Episode #2217
Brian Cox
Books mentioned
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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The Demon-Haunted World
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Physicist Brian Cox joins the show to discuss black holes, Hawking radiation, and the information paradox, then moves to the Fermi paradox, UFOs, and the far future of life. The conversation also covers the Big Bang, dark matter and energy, James Webb discoveries, and relativity. Later topics include social media's effects, flat-Earth conspiracy theories, and the nature of scientific inquiry.
What they talked about
- Black hole physics and the information paradox
- Supermassive black holes and their scales
- Fermi paradox and the rarity of intelligent life
- AI and the future of intelligence
- Dark energy and the accelerating universe
- James Webb Telescope and early galaxy formation
- Dangers of nuclear war and global instability
- Time dilation and wormholes in quantum physics
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