Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2019-01-28
Books mentioned on #1233 - Brian Cox
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. Tickets for Brian Cox Universal Adventures In Space & Time available at: US & CANADA: https://profbriancoxlive.
Brian Cox recommended Black Holes & Time Warps by Kip Thorne, and discussed A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, and The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking's landmark popular science book has served as an iconic introduction to cosmology and black holes for millions of readers worldwide.
Discussed“there's a great little explanation in Stephen Hawking's brief history of time about this that the idea that you can't tell whether you're moving or not demolish is the notion of absolute space”
Where to get it
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine by H.
Discussed“I mean his time machine is no right to do that really worked out yet”
Where to get it
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Black Holes & Time Warps
Black Holes & Time Warps by Kip Thorne is a popular science book exploring the bizarre physics of gravitational collapse, time dilation, and the theoretical mechanics of black holes and wormholes.
Recommended“and that there's a great this great book by Kip Thorne actually we just mentioned him he got the Nobel Prize last year for the gravitational waves and he wrote a brilliant blog links in the 80s called black holes and time warps way talks about the the answer is we don't fully know”
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The Particle at the End of the Universe
The Particle at the End of the Universe by Sean Carroll is a popular science book that details the monumental scientific quest to discover the Higgs boson and understand the fundamental laws of nature at CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Discussed“actually I think I'm Sean Carroll II I don't have you've had Sean Shareable dumps he he's said something the same I think in the book they wrote the big picture I think he has a similar argument”
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Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“I started off as a joke this actually I wrote it in an infinite monkey cage book this radio show that I do but he ended up when I'd written it down I thought actually that it makes sense”