Like A Hundred Billion Hot Dogs
Apr. 4th, 2012 01:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyWatchin' Nova's Fabric of the Cosmos. So far it hasn't covered anything I don't know,* but it's fun to see it illustrated with passable CG--even if some of the metaphors are clumsy.**
Also, Brian Greene seems really determined to BLOW YOUR MIND. He starts each segment with a question scientists are trying to answer, and then he always says "The answer ... could CHANGE EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT REALITY." It seems a bit redundant, since you don't need to dress up black holes, time's relativity, possible alternate universes, crazyass quantum particles, or any of that to make them totally mind-blowing.
Of course, I am a giant nerd, so maybe they do have to wave big signs to tell non-nerds that THIS IS AMAZING. So I can't really fault Nova there, I guess.
There are some nice shots of the canyons in the American Southwest interspersed with random animations of clocks and black holes and shit, though. That makes everything better.
*Me being a giant nerd, you see.
**Most hilarious metaphor: Spacetime Is A Loaf Of Bread. But dammit, if I see one more Science Host messing around with billiard balls ...
Also, Brian Greene seems really determined to BLOW YOUR MIND. He starts each segment with a question scientists are trying to answer, and then he always says "The answer ... could CHANGE EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT REALITY." It seems a bit redundant, since you don't need to dress up black holes, time's relativity, possible alternate universes, crazyass quantum particles, or any of that to make them totally mind-blowing.
Of course, I am a giant nerd, so maybe they do have to wave big signs to tell non-nerds that THIS IS AMAZING. So I can't really fault Nova there, I guess.
There are some nice shots of the canyons in the American Southwest interspersed with random animations of clocks and black holes and shit, though. That makes everything better.
*Me being a giant nerd, you see.
**Most hilarious metaphor: Spacetime Is A Loaf Of Bread. But dammit, if I see one more Science Host messing around with billiard balls ...
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Date: 2012-04-05 03:39 am (UTC)...
APPARENTLY NOT.
I can send you to watch the bit, which starts at about 2:40 in this video and goes to about 8:00. It's a really bizarre and tortured way to describe time dilation and the relativity of simultaneity.