Kate Moss impresses Professor Brian Cox with her physics knowledge

When physicist Brian Cox recently met Kate Moss he was impressed to find that the supermodel was more interested in talking about the cosmos than sipping on a cosmo.

BY Bibby Sowray | 14 August 2012

Kate Moss and Professor Brian Cox. Photo: Rex

We're fans of Professor Brian Cox (who isn't?), the particle physicist who made Space cool and geek chic, but unfortunately the paths of physics and fashion never cross so we've had no reason to write about him before - until now that is.

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Cox, who is a former 'rock star' thanks to his role as keyboardist in Nineties band D:Ream (the original Things Can Only Get Better hitmakers), recently bumped into Kate Moss at a fancy soirée and was blown away by the supermodel's knowledge of quantum physics and matters planetary. Random as it may seem, Cox told the Daily Mail : "Kate was asking me some extraordinarily detailed questions about the universe. She really knows her stuff. She also had some questions from her daughter Lila Grace which were pretty complicated. I was impressed." Whoever said models were airheads, eh?

Hang on, does this mean that nine-year-old Lila Grace has not only got her mother's model genes but she's a budding Einstein too? Could we be seeing Cox and Kate collaborating on a space-themed TV show (whilst both wearing pieces from Christopher Kane's Resort 2011 cosmos-inspired collection preferably)?

Ok, maybe we're getting a little carried away.