Professor Brian Cox “崛起世界巡回演讲”
2026年6月10日，星期三，晚上7点30分 星光剧院，星光表演艺术中心
在为全球近五十万观众带来轰动一时的演出“地平线”（Horizons）之后，布莱恩·考克斯教授携全新世界巡回演出“涌现”（Emergence）再度回归。
过去十五年间，布莱恩曾多次亮相BBC广播和电视的里程碑式科学节目，从荣获皮博迪奖的《太阳系奇观》（Wonders of the Solar System）到风靡全球的系列纪录片《行星》（The Planets）。
1610年冬，约翰内斯·开普勒走过布拉格的查理大桥时，注意到一片雪花落在了他的手臂上。他思考着为什么所有的雪花都是六边形的；他写道：“我不相信，”即使在雪花中，这种有序的图案也是随机存在的。”四百多年后的今天，我们找到了部分答案。雪花由水分子构成，水分子由原子构成，原子由夸克和电子构成——而夸克和电子或许又由超弦构成——所有这些都由量子理论所描述的自然力维系在一起。但是，如此精妙绝伦的美丽是如何从如此抽象的简单中涌现出来的呢？
从构成宇宙网的浩瀚星系之河，到地球的生态系统和人脑的结构——从黑洞到雪花——我们看到的是一个建立在极其简单原理之上的、令人叹为观止的复杂宇宙。在长达138亿年的宇宙演化过程中，这一切是如何发生的？
《涌现》一书也讲述了这令人惊叹的400年科学史。生活在围绕一颗普通恒星运行的小行星上的、拥有25万年历史的大型猿类物种，是如何对宇宙有如此深刻的理解的？在数学、好奇心以及对对称和美的审美感知的指引下，我们这个物种开始解读宇宙的故事，并将我们的宇宙飞船送往太阳系的边缘，乃至更遥远的星辰大海。
布莱恩说：“我非常享受创作《涌现》的过程——这是我创作过的最具雄心的现场演出。我很幸运能与一群杰出的科学家、音乐家、电影制作人和平面艺术家合作，将宇宙学、生物学、哲学和历史搬上最大、最先进的LED屏幕，并配以我能找到的最好的音响和灯光。我希望这场演出能带来全方位的体验，也希望它能让每个人——无论他们热爱科学、
音乐、历史，还是仅仅欣赏自然之美——都获得一些新的思考。” 《卫报》评论道：
“令人震撼地提醒我们，人类的生命既微不足道，又无比珍贵。”
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. He pondered why all snowflakes are six-sided; “I do not believe,” he wrote, “that even in a snowflake, this ordered pattern exists at random.” Over 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?
From the vast rivers of galaxies that make up the cosmic web, to the ecosystems of Earth and the structure of the human brain - from black holes to snowflakes - we see a Universe of dazzling complexity built on profoundly simple principles. How did this happen over 13.8 billion years of cosmic evolution?
Emergence is also a scientific history of this astonishing 400 years. How did a quarter of a million-year-old species of great apes living on one small planet orbiting an average star come to understand so much about the cosmos? Guided by mathematics, curiosity, and an aesthetic sense of symmetry and beauty, our species has begun to read the story of the Universe and started to carry our spacecraft to the edge of the solar system and outwards to the stars.
Brian says - “I’ve loved creating Emergence - it’s the most ambitious live show I’ve ever written. I’ve been very lucky to collaborate with a wonderful group of scientists, musicians, film makers and graphic artists to bring cosmology, biology, philosophy and history to the largest and most advanced LED screens available, with the best sound and lights I could find. I hope the show is an all-encompassing experience, and I hope it leaves everyone, whether they love science or
music or history, or simply contemplating the beauty of Nature, with something new to think about.”
'A Jaw-dropping reminder that human life is both irrelevant and hugely precious.’
**** The Guardian
