The rock star physicist rocked

I was going to blog about this but this email, sent this morning, says it all…

-----Original Message-----
From: Robin Capper
Sent: Saturday, 19 August 2006 10:17
To: Brian Cox
Subject: Thanks, I needed that

I had read of your work & the developments at CERN but was great to hear you on the Radio NZ this morning.

Your optimism and positive outlook was a total contrast to James Howard Kunstler's bleak, I'd say Luddite, view of the future that preceded you, much needed.

Yep we have problems, the oil will run out, the globe will warm till one day it's consumed by an expanding dying sun but I suspect humanity will be around in some form to see all these things happen.

Regards,
Robin Capper

http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/saturday

8.30am: James Howard Kunstler
Social analyst who is one of the key speakers at the Digital Earth ’06 Summit on Sustainability in Auckland on 27-30 August. His book ‘The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century’ (Grove Press, ISBN 0802142494) explores the rapidly approaching end of the fossil fuel era.

9.05am: Brian Cox
Enjoyed the life of a rock star in the 1980s and ‘90s before becoming one of the world’s leading physicists. Dr Cox is the Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, and is contributing to one of the largest collaborative efforts ever attempted in the physical sciences: the Atlas Project at CERN in Geneva.