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published by benjee

1 year 3 months 1 week ago • 381 views

tags: physics, docudrama, unified theory, god

As Albert Einstein lay on his deathbed, he asked only for his glasses, his writing implements and his latest equations. He knew he was dying, yet he continued his work. In those final hours of his life, while fading in and out of consciousness, he was working on what he hoped would be his greatest work of all. It was a project of monumental complexity. It was a project that he hoped would unlock the mind of God.

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An interesting and intriguing documentary-drama on Einstein's life, work & ultimately death - focusing on his theory of everything, which he worked on until he died on April 18th 1955. It touches on his religious beliefs, plus the critical reluctance of his theoretical 'grandchild' - Quantum Mechanics: "God does not play dice" - as he's famously said on both subjects. Like his Cosmological Constant, his work caused controversy & he never completed his unified theory - but ironically his disdain towards Quantum theory may have finally finished his work...

written by benjee

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So overly dramatic though in places... "Died in utter obscurity" my ass

written by Farhad2000

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This is disgusting. there is so much bad science, laughable sensationalization and absurd oversimplification that one can hardly tell where hype ends and truth begins. You will come away from watching it with not a single shred of additional knowledge of his grand unification attempts. its simply whoring up science for the benefit of cheap emotional manipulation. I think I'm off Horizon permanently after seeing this one.

written by gluonium

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I think Horizon is good for when u are 8-14 thats when i used to watch it after that its just a bit crappy and your thirst for knowlage will be far faster than Horizon provides facts. Horizon is good for teaching hirstoical informatoin behind the actual scince and in a memorable fasoin ( maby not truthfull) but still its more of a story than a fact sessoin.

i think its intresting now i wonder how mutch more knowlagable people will be now we have wikipidea and the internet. when i was at primary school the internet dident realy exsist not in a way that was afordable and acessable to me evan though i was hevaly into IT. but now kids that are intrestead can just find what thay want. give it 15 years and i think people are going to be incredably more knowlageable than ever before

written by westy

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Gluonium: Horizon etc. exists as pop-science TV to teach non-professional scientists the basics of a certain area/series of events. As with all television, it's dumbed-down to a certain degree - this is to allow easier accessibility to the lay-person. As someone who has studied science and works in it, you're not part of the BBC team (behind the programmes) targeted demographic (as Westy said, it's more aimed at teenagers/general public).

Now, if you want prime example of science being totally warped to a spiritual manipulation of media - watch What The Beep...it's far more mis-construed than any Horizon could ever be!

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