PROFESSOR BRIAN COX - A JOURNEY INTO DEEP SPACE Adds Second Sydney Show

Due to popular demand, a second Sydney date has been added to the national tour of superstar physicist Professor Brian Cox' new live stage show, Professor Brian Cox - A Journey Into Deep Space. Cox will now appear at Sydney's State Theatre on Wednesday 10 August in addition to the previously announced dates in Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth. The new Sydney performance goes on sale on Monday 6 June at 9am.

In an extraordinary opportunity, anyone purchasing a ticket to either Brian Cox show in Sydney before Friday 10 June will be automatically entered in a competition to win an experience of a lifetime. The winner will join Professor Cox on a private tour of the archives of the Powerhouse Museum, a treasure trove of science exhibits never normally seen by the public. They will then join him at a special VIP lunch to commemorate the opening of Collider, an exhibition which takes visitors on an immersive journey through the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

In this new show, produced by Lateral Events, Professor Cox will share what we know and explore some of the great unanswered questions about deep space. Are we alone in the universe? Will we ever know what happened before the Big Bang? What is the nature of the 95% of the universe we know to be missing? What was the origin of Life on Earth?

Delving into the most recent scientific research from CERN and the great astronomical observatories of the world, Professor Cox is always captivating, continually surprising and forever pushing the boundaries.

"I think we are in a golden age of discovery," he said. "We've detected gravitational waves from colliding black holes and seen Higgs Particles at the Large Hadron Collider. We've discovered that the universe is accelerating in its expansion for unknown reasons, and we even have credible theories that seek to answer one of the eternal questions: 'What happened before the Big Bang?"

"We know vastly more about the universe at a fundamental level than we did a decade ago, and the universe is turning out to be stranger and more fascinating than we could have imagined."

One of the world's foremost communicator of all things scientific, his innate ability to make highly complex matters entertaining and easy to contemplate, has made his science television shows ground breaking in their audience reach and accessibility.

Joining Prof Cox on stage will be British comedian, actor and writer Robin Ince, his co-host on BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage.

"In this tour I will describe these recent discoveries, and discuss what they mean for our understanding of the universe, its origin and evolution," Prof Cox added. "But I also want to discuss how we could possibly know such things. What does it mean to make a scientific statement? How do we know the age of the Earth, the Sun and the Universe? And how sure can we be of things that happened when our observable universe was way smaller than a single atom, 13.8 billion years ago?"

Brian Cox OBE is a British particle physicist at the University of Manchester and Royal Society Professor for Public Engagement in Science. He has carried out research at the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland and the H1 experiment at DESY in Hamburg.

He is best known to the public as the presenter of a number of science programs for the BBC, boosting the popularity of astronomy, physics and exploration.

Professor Brian Cox previously toured Australia with Lateral Events in 2013 and 2014.

Register for tickets at www.lateralevents.com

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