Show of the week: Wonders of the Universe
Physicist and former pop musician Brian Cox elucidates the cosmos’s endless cycle of creation and destruction.
“We are made of the same stuff as the stars and the galaxies,” physicist Brian Cox says in this follow-up to the Peabody Award–winning series Wonders of the Solar System. To explain, he travels from a Hindu temple in Kathmandu to an abandoned Rio de Janeiro prison, which he enlists in the creation of an ingenious metaphor for how the building blocks of matter are forged in the fiery hearts of dying stars. As lucid as he is enthusiastic, the pop musician–turned–scientist illuminates the beauty in the cosmos’s endless cycle of creation and destruction. Wednesday, July 27, at 9 p.m., Science
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