Comments on: Dr. Brian Cox on Horizon

By: giagia

giagia — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 21:08:57 +0000

At least Buddhism and Hinduism were at least on the right track when it came to things like ‘the age of the world’- they believed it was billions of years old, not 5-10,000 like them there Bible-based ones. Where Hinduism fell down, however, was the whole ‘the Earth sits on a turtle, which sits on a turtle, which sits on a turtle…’ thing.

By: Creepy

Creepy — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:35:43 +0000

Well actually I meant it more in the way that it’s fascinating to know that people were quite close to the theory all those years ago, without really understanding how it worked. Not that ‘oh religion is right’ or anything. Just that so many ideas cut very close to a revelation and yet never quite strike it and it takes so long to prove an idea right or wrong or on the right track etc. Just interesting to put such old philosophies next to what we know now, all these years later and see how maybe someone knew something but didn’t have the words or knowledge to explain it any better. I always find those programmes on TV interesting about how a tale in the bible may have happened but it wasn’t god, it was science that they didn’t understand and so attributed it to a god.

By: toby

toby — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:54:56 +0000

Grrr! Buddhism is no more right than any other religion. They accept easy answers too, instead of doing the hard work of searching for reasons.

By: Creepy

Creepy — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:28:32 +0000

It was good. Personally I quite liked the japery of the crew etc so what does the Guardian know, pah! Almost made me run off and read my idiots quides to the universe/Hawking again but those don’t put it as well as Mr Cox did. Interesting to see that the Buddhists are right and everything is connected and affects everything else though, even if they didn’t know the scientific terms or reasons behind it all. And I spotted the Star Wars bit and thought ‘they did that bit rather deadpan – was it not supposed to be homage?’

By: Rachel Greenham

Rachel Greenham — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:59:20 +0000

Does that make Gia the boson’s mate?

(I’ll get my coat…)

By: giagia

giagia — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:48:29 +0000

Haha! I had quite a lot of referrals from you last night. Brian and I crack up every time we see a referral from you. I can't imagine what must be going through people's heads when they read your 'interview' with him! Pffffft!

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 09:41:38 +0000

I love the traffic spikes when your hubby’s on TV.

Most amusing referral I got last night was from someone asking “dr brian cox bbc why does he look so young”. So … what is his secret? Is it something to do with bosons? Yeah, that’s it, I bet it’s bosons.

By: giagia

giagia — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:52:18 +0000

Ciaran, I think he was trying to be funny. :-/

Hannah, yay! Thanks for watching. And YAY for The Boosh (oh, how I love them…)

By: hannah

hannah — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:14:45 +0000

That clip’s brilliant – both the presenters don’t seem to be even *attempting* to understand what Brian’s saying…

Another classic BBC Breakfast interview is on Youtube – with the Mighty Boosh. Noel and Julian look a leeedle bit worse for wear, and the presenters have obviously never seen the show. Much awkwardness and bluffing ensues…

I digress. Looking forward to watching tonight! :)

By: Ciaran

Ciaran — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:49:44 +0000

Was it just me, or was the male presenter being a bit arsey about it? He seemed to launch into an offensive, and then the rest of the interview was spent with his co-presenter defending Brian.

Anyway, Sky+ set, will tell the troops :)