Professor Brian Cox just won correction of the day

Poke Staff. Updated March 29th, 2022

Just one more reason to love Professor Brian Cox after he offered this correction to a news story about a seized Russian-owned super yacht.

Well, when we say ‘correction’ it was obviously done in the most light-hearted way, but it still made us smile.

Here’s the story, tweeted by the BBC’s Faisal Islam.

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Transport Sec Shapps just seized Russian-owned £38m superyacht, under post Ukraine invasion sanctions docked in Canary Wharf… just as it was planning to leave after having attended for the “Superyacht awards”. Shapps: its “a clear stark warning to Putin & his cronies”

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 29, 2022

Detained superyacht is Dutch built Phi, launched only last year, and has a “patented” fresh water swimming pool and “infinite wine cellar”https://t.co/UqmvN5r1J8

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 29, 2022

And it obviously caught Cox’s attention and, well, it gave us a smile in the gloom.

It doesn’t have an infinite wine cellar. Unless it contains an eternal Kerr black hole, although even then it wouldn’t be a very good wine cellar because you couldn’t get the wine out, at least into our Universe. https://t.co/v2wsV1kCCO

— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) March 29, 2022

And it’s not the first time the great man has lightened the load on Twitter.

There was also this.

This is a misunderstanding of relativity by Mr Bandeet because the proper time always increases aboard the Tardis even if it travels along a closed timelike curve. @vizcomic https://t.co/65hHnMKcCM

— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) January 6, 2022

When he said this.

If you’re daft enough to believe this I’d imagine you’re too stupid to successfully pair yourself with another Bluetooth device anyway. https://t.co/SRb1PWI3yZ

— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) May 24, 2021

And when he shared this.

I’ve found someone to do all the long lens staring at the sky shots on top of mountains for the next series. Nobody will notice. https://t.co/LtWFvS3AwT

— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) December 10, 2021

And you can follow @ProfBrianCox on Twitter here.

Source Twitter @ProfBrianCox