Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 – The Pale Blue Dot

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 - The Pale Blue Dot

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 – The Pale Blue Dot: In this final episode Professor Brian Cox travels to Iceland, where the delicate splendour of a moon-bow reveals the colours that paint our world, and he visits a volcano to explain why the sun shines.


 

 



By exploring how sunlight transforms the plains of the Serengeti, drives the annual migration of humpback whales to the Caribbean and paints the moon red during a lunar eclipse, Brian reveals the colour signature of our life-supporting planet. Finally, at an observatory high in the Swiss Alps, he shows how these colours aren’t simply beautiful, but that understanding how they’re created is allowing us to search for other Earths far out in the cosmos.

 

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox episode 4 – The Pale Blue Dot

Brian Edward Cox OBE, FRS (born 3 March 1968) is an English physicist who serves as professor of particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester. He is best known to the public as the presenter of science programmes, especially the Wonders of… series and for popular science books, such as Why Does E=mc²? and The Quantum Universe. He has been the author or co-author of over 950 scientific publications.

Cox has been described as the natural successor for BBC’s scientific programming by both David Attenborough and Patrick Moore. Before his academic career, Cox was a keyboard player for the British bands D:Ream and Dare.

Cox studied physics at the University of Manchester during his music career. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree with first-class honours and a Master of Philosophy degree in physics. After D:Ream disbanded in 1997, he completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in high-energy particle physics at the University of Manchester. His thesis, Double Diffraction Dissociation at Large Momentum Transfer, was supervised by Robin Marshall and based on research he did on the H1 experiment at the Hadron Elektron Ring Anlage (HERA) particle accelerator at the DESY laboratory in Hamburg, Germany.

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