Professor Brian Cox Will Bring EMERGENCE World Tour to NJPAC

New Jersey Performing Arts Center has announced that Professor Brian Cox will bring his highly anticipated World Tour, "Emergence," to Newark on Thursday, March 11 at 8:00 p.m. 

Following the global success of his smash-hit show "Horizons," performed for nearly half a million fans worldwide, Professor Cox returns to captivate audiences with his newest production. Renowned for his engaging science programs on BBC radio and television—including the Peabody Award-winning "Wonders of the Solar System" and the acclaimed series "The Planets"—Brian Cox promises an unforgettable evening exploring the wonders of the universe.

Brian has appeared in many landmark science programs for BBC radio and television over the last 15 years, from the Peabody Award-winning Wonders of the Solar System to the world-wide hit series The Planets.

In the winter of 1610 Johannes Kepler was crossing Prague's Charles Bridge when he noticed a snowflake land on his arm. Why, he asked, are all snowflakes six-cornered? “I do not believe,” he wrote, “that even in a snowflake, this ordered pattern exists at random.” 

400 years later, we have part of the answer. Snowflakes are made of water molecules, which are made of atoms, which are made of quarks and electrons - which might be made of superstrings - all held together by forces of nature described by quantum theory. But how does such delicate beauty emerge from such abstract simplicity?  

Emergence is a celebration of the intricacy of the Universe and an exploration of the laws of nature that sculpted it. From the largest structures in the known Universe – the rivers and flows of galaxies that trace the cosmic web – to Earth's interlinked ecosystems and the structure of the human brain – from black holes to snowflakes - we observe a world of dazzling complexity underpinned by magnificent simplicity. 

How did a quarter of a million-year-old species of great apes on one small planet amongst trillions orbiting around a middle-aged star in an average galaxy figure all this out, guided by curiosity, mathematics and an aesthetic sense of symmetry and beauty? And what might we become if we can hold onto the ideas of the enlightenment so successfully developed and deployed by Kepler and his contemporaries and successors – ideas that have allowed us to begin to read the story of the Universe and carried our spacecraft to the edge of the solar system and outwards to the stars.