I'll be watching.

It's then followed by a doco on Stephen Hawkings which I'd like to watch except I can't stand that Dalek voice of his for more than a minute or so.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxD-5z_xHBU

On Foxtel?

Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 8^th, 2016 at 1:28pm:

On Foxtel?

SBS 3 (or HD) ... 7:30pm - 8:30pm.

Thankfully, it's about his theories, and not about himself, as such.

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 8^th, 2016 at 1:44pm:

Lisa Jones wrote on Aug 8th, 2016 at 1:28pm: On Foxtel? SBS 3 (or HD) ... 7:30pm - 8:30pm. Thankfully, it's about his theories, and not about himself, as such.

There is a great movie on Foxtel at the moment Herb called "The Theory of Everything".  I watched it and was impressed.   It deals with Hawking in his youth, leading up to his  Motor Neuron disease and beyond.    It goes a lot into the personal side of this life - in some areas, he was a bit of a cad.  well worth a watch. 




"The Theory of Everything is a 2014 British biographical romantic drama film[4] directed by James Marsh and adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking, which deals with her relationship with her ex-husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, his diagnosis of motor neurone disease, and his success in physics.[5]

The film stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones with Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, Harry Lloyd and David Thewlis featured in supporting roles. The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2014

Vic wrote on Aug 8^th, 2016 at 1:56pm:

The film stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones with Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, Harry Lloyd and David Thewlis featured in supporting roles. The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2014

Thanks, BigVic - but dramatised biographies are not my cup of tea - and frankly, I'm far more interested in their works than their personal habits and idiosyncrasies.

 

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 8^th, 2016 at 2:10pm:

Vic wrote on Aug 8th, 2016 at 1:56pm: The film stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones with Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, Harry Lloyd and David Thewlis featured in supporting roles. The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2014 Thanks, BigVic - but dramatised biographies are not my cup of tea - and frankly, I'm far more interested in their works than their personal habits and idiosyncrasies.

Those dramatisations are for the wider audience who are not really interested in the subject, and have a low attention span for anything other than "human interest" stories.

issuevoter wrote on Aug 9^th, 2016 at 6:50am:

Those dramatisations are for the wider audience who are not really interested in the subject, and have a low attention span for anything other than "human interest" stories.

Most geniuses are imbeciles when removed from their specialty - and Einstein was no different to the rest of them in this regard. The ball - not the man - is what holds my attention.

A great many of the doctors who come off our university production lines these days reveal themselves to be idiot-savants when you prod them with a wooden spoon and try to engage them in general conversation.   

Lord Herbert wrote on Aug 8^th, 2016 at 1:22pm:

Doco on Einstein's theories tonight. I'll be watching.

I recorded it.
Last week SBS had a doco on "dark energy" and "dark matter" which also involved a lot of Einsteins theories.

For me the most amazing thing about Einstein's theories is their predictive power even 100 years later

For example, Einsteins theory of gravity causing a curvature of space and time which he formulated in 1915 had to be used when setting up the GPS navigation system. His theory suggested that time passes slightly slower on Earth than it does in space. The GPS system has to allow for this discrepancy or it would be hopelessly inaccurate.


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orbiting (GPS) clocks are 20,000 km above the Earth, and experience gravity that is four times weaker than that on the ground. Einstein's general relativity theory says that gravity curves space and time, resulting in a tendency for the orbiting clocks to tick slightly faster, by about 45 microseconds per day. The net result is that time on a GPS satellite clock advances faster than a clock on the ground by about 38 microseconds per day. But at 38 microseconds per day, the relativistic offset in the rates of the satellite clocks is so large that, if left uncompensated, it would cause navigational errors that accumulate faster than 10 km per day! GPS accounts for relativity by electronically adjusting the rates of the satellite clocks, and by building mathematical corrections into the computer chips which solve for the user's location. http://physicscentral.com/explore/writers/will.cfm

The_Barnacle wrote on Aug 9^th, 2016 at 11:37am:

For me the most amazing thing about Einstein's theories is their predictive power even 100 years later For example, Einsteins theory of gravity causing a curvature of space and time which he formulated in 1915 had to be used when setting up the GPS navigation system. His theory suggested that time passes slightly slower on Earth than it does in space. The GPS system has to allow for this discrepancy or it would be hopelessly inaccurate.

Gravity bends it like Beckham.

Incredible.

There's one theory he got wrong though, but I can't remember what it was.

Einstein Schmeinstein! All those hieroglyphics on the blackboard require as much faith as any religion, unless you are one of the priests/physicists.

Now, if you really want the simple truth of how the Universe works, just ask Gandalf, or Yadda, or It-Is-The-Light. Its all explained in their Holy books in terms that any common numskull can understand.