Professor Brian Cox, the Taylor Swift of Science, comes to Boston

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In its various television series Via the solar system and the cosmos, Professor Brian Cox leads the audience through the most beautiful ideas that people can understand, from the secret of life to the time of the black. The episodes are filled with audiovisual stimuli, from high -flying music to breathtaking CGI, which represent distant worlds, but they also offer Cox itself, an appealing presence that is able to convey the overwhelming yardstick of the universe and at the same time to bring it to earth. His combination of amazement and warmth has made him a well -known name worldwide, and now the Bostoners will be able to experience Cox personally when he has his worldwide show. HORIZONTE: A Space Odyssey of the 21st CenturyTo the Boch Center Shubert Theater on May 11th and 12th.

“The conception of the show arises from the idea that when we talk about cosmology, 2 trillion galaxies in the observable universe or even 400 billion suns in a milky way,” says Cox. “These numbers are both unimaginable and scary … So we found that we are only a bacon in a potentially infinite universe, but we can be extremely valuable, since there may be very few places where civilizations exist.”

Cox performed in his three years on the globe horizon In front of more than 400,000 people. But now the tour ends in North America, with Boston the penultimate stop before the final before the final in New York. “I will be sad that it works,” says Cox, laughing when he hears comparisons with Taylor Swift's Tour. “It has developed into something else and it is the way I always wanted it.” A remarkable change is the new James Webb Space Telescope, whose pictures on massive LED screens look surprisingly better than the older pictures from the lifting. Cox also grow more philosophical than at the beginning, supported by its increased use of music. “Music is an answer to the secret and the majesty of nature,” says Cox. “I just mix different ways to explore the world together … in a way it is a huge experiment.”

Sunday, May 11th and Monday, May 12th, Boch Center Shubert Theater, 265 Tremont St, Boston. Tickets remain for Monday, May 12th, Briancoxlive.co.uk.