Wonders of the Universe

[HiMucker]

Feck it creationism is much easier to understand.  The whole universe will stop in trillions of years was mind pickling.  Could another one not just start?  How did the first one start.  Great show but the human mind just cant comprehend these things.   He did say though on an earlier show that science was all just about the best theory at the the time, until another theory disproves it, so our great great great great great......................grand children still have hope

[Square Ball]

find this show fasinating, but as himucker says mind blowing the time scales used. Makes a lot of the stuff easier to understand, especially the red dwarf stars and how thet will be the last to go out

[Tony Baloney]

I can't watch it. Brian Cox's manner gets on my wick. Pity

http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/

On the right hand side.. "Jon Culshaw mimics Ricky Gervais".. Does a good Brian Cox.

Culshaw "hosted" the 700th episode of The Sky at Night a few nights ago. Cox was a guest as was Dr. Brian May.

[Olly]

The BBC should look into getting this guy to front their weather programmes.  He talks about things happening in billions of years time whereas BBC NI's Barra Best said today that the weather forecast for tomorrow was still uncertain. Cox can predict the end of the world with total accuracy but Best doesn't know if it will really snow tomorrow.

[gallsman]

It will never top an idiot abroad...

Millions and billions?! He used the following sentence "It's 10,000 trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion years". He could have just said a long time - who can prove it will be that long?

The point of that was to presumably attempt to explain the incomprehensible scale of the whole thing. IF he'd said 10^76 years, would you have grasped the scale? Or be any closer to doing so?

[HiMucker]

It will never top an idiot abroad...

Millions and billions?! He used the following sentence "It’s 10,000 trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion, trillion years". He could have just said a long time - who can prove it will be that long?

The point of that was to presumably attempt to explain the incomprehensible scale of the whole thing. IF he'd said 10^76 years, would you have grasped the scale? Or be any closer to doing so?

I liked the quote when he said if you counted all the atoms in that made up everything in the universe you wouldn't have enough atoms for every year until the end.  You would need some size of abacus