Professor Brian Cox at the Star Performing Arts Centre: An evening in space with a star

Professor Brian Cox uses pictures from telescopes and space probes to illustrate his lecture. PHOTO: LATERAL EVENTS
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SINGAPORE - To go and listen to Professor Brian Cox, a particle physicist, is to never look at a night sky quite the same again. Now it seems vaster, more poetic and yes, also very complicated.

On Saturday night (June 8), Mr Cox, 51, spoke at the Star Performing Arts Centre - part of his multiple-city Universal World Tour - for over two intriguing hours. Midway there was an interval which was required to put ice on the brain. Mr Cox is what we might call concentrated entertainment.

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