Professor Brian Cox is an English physicist and Professor of Particle Physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester in the UK, author of many books, and broadcast personality. Catch him live in 2025 on his "Horizons—A 21st Century Space Odyssey" tour. Briancoxlive.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Black holes destroy information according to Stephen Hawking's calculation.
If this planet is the only planet in our galaxy where complex biological systems exist, then it follows it's the only place where meaning currently ex...
If you destroy it through deliberate action or inaction then each of you would be personally responsible for destroying meaning in a galaxy of 400 bil...
Civilizations might be rare because for most of the history of life on Earth, it was just single-celled organisms.
Maybe the number of places where biology becomes complex enough to create civilizations is on average one, maybe zero per galaxy.
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all right Brian Cox good to see sir good to see you again how's things in the world of the
discovery of the universe exciting yes very say I've been doing some work on black holes recently
which I hadn't started last time I saw you actually so I got interested in it and the the amount of the
progress that's being made in trying to understand how they work and a question that was posed by
Stephen Hawking a long time ago really 1970s early 1980s which is what happens to stuff that falls in
the simplest question you could possibly ask right there's progress being made on that now
which I think is profound and exciting how is the progress being made like how how do we how do we
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