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Every book Brian Cox recommended on podcasts
Brian Cox appears on science and culture podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience and StarTalk Radio as a physicist exploring complex topics such as particle physics, relativity, and the limits of scientific knowledge. During these discussions, Cox references several foundational and theoretical books to explain difficult concepts to listeners. He mentions Kip Thorne's Black Holes & Time Warps to explore the complexities of wormholes and time travel in light of Thorne's Nobel Prize-winning work on gravitational waves. To illustrate the mechanics of string theory, he points to Brian Greene's The Elegant Universe. When discussing the principle of relativity and the historical dismantling of absolute space, Cox brings up Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. Additionally, he connects theoretical arguments to Sean Carroll's The Big Picture and touches upon science fiction predictions through H.G. Wells' The Time Machine, using literature and popular science writing to contextualize the frontiers of modern physics.
Books recommended by Brian Cox
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Black Holes & Time Warps
Black Holes & Time Warps by Kip Thorne is a captivating exploration of Einstein's universe, detailing the mind-bending physics of gravitational waves, time travel, and black holes through the lens of a Nobel laureate.
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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A Brief History of Time
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking is a landmark popular science book that explores complex cosmological concepts such as the origins of the universe, black holes, and the nature of time for a general audience.
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”
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Black Holes & Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)
Discussed“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 elegant universe
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene is a bestselling popular science book that introduces readers to string theory, quantum mechanics, and the ongoing quest to find a unified theory of physics.
Discussed“he would have um it's great but the elegant universe is a beautiful description of string theory and and so I think the idea initially with the Hope was that you'd have a theory and you could write it down”
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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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The Time Machine
The Time Machine by H.
Discussed“I mean his time machine is no right to do that really worked out yet”
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Books Brian Cox wrote
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discussing the Frontier of Particle Physics with Brian Cox | StarTalk Radio | 2025-02-04 | 1 |
| #1233 - Brian Cox | The Joe Rogan Experience | 2019-01-28 | 6 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“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”