Horizon BBC2 Program about Gravity

[Beyond_Vision]

Tonight at 9.00pm on BBC2 there is a program about Gravity.

Regards

Kevin

[legion48]

Cheers mate. It's just clouded over here, so that'll do nicely.

[radioactive]

Gravity eh?

Something else to get me down

[Sam]

Excellent, I was wondering what to watch tonight.

[jgs001]

Tis recording as we speak (well I type )

[captain vallo]

Shame it was so very annoying .... what has happened to Horizon

[Sam]

What's with the artistic camera angles?

[Stephen Green]

I wish they would not play around with the sound and camera shots it would have made a far better program

Stephen

[Macavity]

Yeah, unfortunate everything associated with Particle Physics, Cosmology etc. has to be accompanied by "up the left nostril" camera angles (yeah, the guy smiles a lot, but, obliquely, came across as almost... "shifty"?) Then the traditional blurred city/car lights, desert cacti, whizzes and bangs. So very different from etc. The recent Jim Al-Khalili "Atom" series seems to have received almost universal (including lay) acclaim. IMO wonderful! That's the way to do it...

[barkis]

I can't say I enjoyed it too much. I hope this is not a new format for the presenting of science programmes. A bit of fun and games sits well in the Xmas Lectures, but this was a serious subject, and demands serious application.

I have nothing against Cox, he appears to be a very happy person, and nowt wrong with that.

If I was a dentist, I probably would not have minded too much that his teeth seemed to hog most of the camera.

The subject itself fascinates me, but I was not keen on the format of this program to lay it out.

Besides, I have lost most of my teeth, and I was just a little jealous.

Ron.

[strutsinaction]

Yes, I would tend to agree. There was very little academic content in this progamme - more akin to a road movie judging by the amount of in-car footage! Horizon has really dumbed down in recent years IMHO.

[Tiny]

Still what a great money spinner particle physics is. Where shall we build the next atom smasher - here is a nice place - and they have a billion to spare. Maybe they would save money if they had a cage of mice in the office of the machine that was just to old and slow - rather than the plastic ducks. After all mice are pan-dimensional and so, it seems, is the graviton.

[legion48]

Well, I watched it and I won't be changing my mind. There is no gravity, the Earth sucks.

[captain vallo]

WHy do we need gravity when the earth is flat

[Sam]

WHy do we need gravity when the earth is flat

so we don't fall up

[Beyond_Vision]

Had to love the two giant rulers in an L shape which cost millions and that they havent found any detectable change in its length due to Gravitons. How did they convince someone to spend the money on that one??????

[supernova]

Well, I watched it and I won't be changing my mind. There is no gravity, the Earth sucks.

Hmmmm you could be right E stein aint shure.

[radioactive]

I watched it and thought well its kind of fly on the wall approach then I thought any time now it would become another Python sketch it very nearly did! :shock:

[ringz]

when you consider that the amount that space is distorted, even by a large gravity wave, is less than the width of a proton it's not too surprising they are having a little difficulty

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Martyn

[Black Shuck]

The recent Jim Al-Khalili "Atom" series seems to have received almost universal (including lay) acclaim. IMO wonderful! That's the way to do it...

Managed about 5 minutes of Horizon before I switched off!! However "Atom" was much more interesting, not much there for the academic but I enjoyed the historical aspect (i.e Lord Rutherford discovering transmutation of elements "by accident" due to the production of Hydrogen in a gas jar containing Radium and atmospheric air).

Also of interest was the presenter. Professor Al-Khalili is a lecturer in the Physics dept at Surrey Uni where I recently completed my masters degree.

http://www.ph.surrey.ac.uk/profiles?s_id=16

Whilst he didn't lecture me I thought he was an excellent presenter!! 8)

Cheers

Bill£

[Ant]

I watched both and really enjoyed both.

Sometimes these programs can be a little dry, and I think the way the Horizon was presented was OK. Certainly wouldn't make me turn it off.

Ant

[Vega]

I managed to look past the jazzed up camera angles and enjoyed the fascinating facts about Newton's / Einsteins theories compared. It still had the content and Horizon still rocks IMO.

Matt

[Macavity]

Interesting points. "Noone likes Rap" (see music thread!) but maybe someone's imagination can be fired by the two (rather spiffing, IMO) guitar chords at the beginning of Eminem's "Loose yourself" to FAR (supposedly) greater things? IDEM current "Science" Programs?

I also enjoyed (was moved by) a repeat of: "The Rock star and the Quantum Mechanic". Seemed to encapsulate both the finer points and the "pathologies" of science. To my shame, I cannot recall Hugh Everett III (among) the father(s) of Parallel Universe theory? Mea culpa or symptomatic of a wider (National) malaise? And my heart is still with a (rather beleagured British!) Science - Alleged "perks" or not. I mean... 80 Million for the last, 9 Billion for the Olympics - "Whoops - Bit o' Politics", as Ben Elton was wont to say? No confrontation: I still don't KNOW the answer to "Is it worth it"? But I still believe so...

[Tiny]

He didn't mention the two Us craft that are furthest from earth heading out and are a good bit out of position compared to where they should be. Maybe they got hit by a gravity wave.