moods

is proffesser brian cox the cleverest musician alive today?keyboard player,with the bands D.REAM & DARE .also particle physicist,currently working on the hadron collider in switzerland

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MusicMan

I think there are many musicians who are probably more intelligent than this guy. For one thing, he only plays keyboard and I've never heard of a single song he has written. And personally, I value intelligence regarding real life issues much higher than I regard someone who has an impressive academic background. Now if he singlehandedly engineered the LHC and it actually could find the Higgs Boson, or provide any significant insight into the nature of our universe and it's beginning, I might say otherwise. But just because he's a particle physicist working on the project doesn't mean much to me.


Brian May of Queen is an accomplished and published astrophysicist, and he played numerous instruments and has an impressive vocal range as well. That's just naming someone who has actual professional academic recognition. There have been a lot of brilliant artists that could outthink anyone in academia, because most academics focus on one field whereas brilliant artists often see the entire picture and have more of a global/social intelligence.

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Stringbender

Glad you mentioned Brian May.

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Stringbender

You realize the irony of this: you have misspelled the word "most" as the word "moss" directly in front of the word intelligent.
(don't worry, I make horrendous mistakes and should be slapped for my blatant abuse of grammatical error and the run-on sentence! I'm just noting the irony)

- now, you are saying cleverest musician AS IF implying that his music is the strongest area of his intellect. Holding this up against particle physics, I would expect music of mathematical wonder with complex algorithms and bizarre combinations of diminished, augmented and suspended chords. I am confused- are we judging how smart this professor is as a musician or are we judging how smart a particle physicist he is because he plays keyboards?
This is like suggesting that someone who races cars can paint my house faster than someone who does not- because he races cars and cars are fast.
So, particle physics- then no doubt this gentleman is intelligent as a physicist if this be the area he is a professor of and for working on the hadron collider.
As a musician, I would expect a Paganini, Rachmaninoff or a Mozart- something of gargantuan value that no doubt everyone has heard of.

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moods

maybe i was wrong .maybe it is brian may or maybe its on of you two
we know its definetly not me cause i cant speeeeelllll

MusicMan

Your spelling is excused if you're not a native english speaker, at least you're trying. If you're a native speaker though, you should work on it.

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Stringbender

My apologies - and as I stated, I make some wonderfully monumental blunders
in here! If my grade-school English teachers were still alive they would probably smack me with a yardstick and throw a dictionary at me for my abuse of punctuation (spelling, grammar and vocabulary have scored high for me- but I must have been out sick all the days when they taught punctuation!) Actually, I just laughed a bit that the spelling error was in a sentence about intelligence..it makes for a beautiful mistake..a classic..humanity at it's best!

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