Newer than my school days but now getting a tad long in the tooth. Still covers many things that one might have missed.
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 - E1 Aliens
We get a Stephen Hawking view of Aliens. Makes me think of Carl Sagan on Alien Abduction and Cosmos, who making love to an alien is like making love to a petunia.
We start out with a large numbers overview. There are lots of psychedelic graphics to have something to watch while listening to a narration on big galaxies and speculating on alien environments.
There is an annoying English narrator, instead of a good California neutral accent. Drives me up the wall as the narrator cannot pronounce evolution.
We are treated to a compare and contrast to Star Wars and Star Trek. Speculation from spontaneous to asteroids. Just add water. Now voyaging to the vastness beyond our solar system.
He prefers to talk about the observatory in Hawaii. I prefer the one in Griffith Park as I know it. And we are off again into space. Space is alive.
We get speculation on the chemistry of life. The average male hold about 6 gallons of water. This implies that the average female cannot old water.
Stephen Hawking likes as a standard abduction story a person lost alone in nowhere at night. I prefer "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" (1958). Again, Carl Sagan preferred petunias.
Looks like we will have to wait and see when they get here.
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 - E2 Time travel
Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions such as, is time travel possible? Can we open a portal to the past? Or find a shortcut to the future?
We start out with a large numbers overview. There are lots of psychedelic graphics to have something to watch while listening to a narration on the nature of time as seen by Stephen Hawking.
There is an annoying English speech impediment, instead of a good California neutral accent. So, several words will be mispronounced.
We need to look at time the way physicists do. The fourth dimension. It sounds almost pornographic as he describes tiny worm holes and their properties. Oh, the space/time type of worm hole.
We are treated to visions of tiny crevasses, wrinkles, and voids. Oh my!
We get a lesson on why we should not Feed the wormhole. Now we look at GPS and its part in time differentials. By this time, you may wat to take a break as concepts move faster. I suspect there may be some fillers. Revisit black holes and light speed. Lots of "Ifs"
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 - E3 The Story of Everything
Free to tour the universe. We start out with a large numbers overview. There are lots of psychedelic graphics to have something to watch while going from the big bang to life, to the end of time (or forever.) We get a quickie about dark energy.
There is an annoying English speech impediment, instead of a good California neutral accent.
We get a Newton version of gravity or non-relativistic classical mechanics that treats time as a universal quantity of measurement which is uniform throughout space and separate from space. Instead of an Einstein general theory of relativity, wherein spacetime is curved by mass and energy. The spacetime of special relativity is today known as "Minkowski spacetime."
As some sort of joke, we get how the end of the earth will affect the Japanese stock market.
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 - E1 Aliens
We get a Stephen Hawking view of Aliens. Makes me think of Carl Sagan on Alien Abduction and Cosmos, who making love to an alien is like making love to a petunia.
We start out with a large numbers overview. There are lots of psychedelic graphics to have something to watch while listening to a narration on big galaxies and speculating on alien environments.
There is an annoying English narrator, instead of a good California neutral accent. Drives me up the wall as the narrator cannot pronounce evolution.
We are treated to a compare and contrast to Star Wars and Star Trek. Speculation from spontaneous to asteroids. Just add water. Now voyaging to the vastness beyond our solar system.
He prefers to talk about the observatory in Hawaii. I prefer the one in Griffith Park as I know it. And we are off again into space. Space is alive.
We get speculation on the chemistry of life. The average male hold about 6 gallons of water. This implies that the average female cannot old water.
Stephen Hawking likes as a standard abduction story a person lost alone in nowhere at night. I prefer "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" (1958). Again, Carl Sagan preferred petunias.
Looks like we will have to wait and see when they get here.
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 - E2 Time travel
Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions such as, is time travel possible? Can we open a portal to the past? Or find a shortcut to the future?
We start out with a large numbers overview. There are lots of psychedelic graphics to have something to watch while listening to a narration on the nature of time as seen by Stephen Hawking.
There is an annoying English speech impediment, instead of a good California neutral accent. So, several words will be mispronounced.
We need to look at time the way physicists do. The fourth dimension. It sounds almost pornographic as he describes tiny worm holes and their properties. Oh, the space/time type of worm hole.
We are treated to visions of tiny crevasses, wrinkles, and voids. Oh my!
We get a lesson on why we should not Feed the wormhole. Now we look at GPS and its part in time differentials. By this time, you may wat to take a break as concepts move faster. I suspect there may be some fillers. Revisit black holes and light speed. Lots of "Ifs"
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 - E3 The Story of Everything
Free to tour the universe. We start out with a large numbers overview. There are lots of psychedelic graphics to have something to watch while going from the big bang to life, to the end of time (or forever.) We get a quickie about dark energy.
There is an annoying English speech impediment, instead of a good California neutral accent.
We get a Newton version of gravity or non-relativistic classical mechanics that treats time as a universal quantity of measurement which is uniform throughout space and separate from space. Instead of an Einstein general theory of relativity, wherein spacetime is curved by mass and energy. The spacetime of special relativity is today known as "Minkowski spacetime."
As some sort of joke, we get how the end of the earth will affect the Japanese stock market.