IF YOU AND OR YOUR DD/DS LIKE.....SCIENCE.............WATCH BBC2........TONIGHT.....

[RTKangaMummy]

Science
Horizon Tuesday 29 January
9:00pm - 9:50pm
BBC2
3/9 - What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity?
You can't tackle a much bigger, deeper, scarier subject than gravity, the force pulling bits of the universe together that no-one quite understands. The presenter here, Dr Brian Cox, is a particle physicist, so he knows more than most. He takes us on a kind of physics road trip across the USA to explain what it is that still baffles scientists about gravity. Unfortunately, the film imparts its information with excruciating slowness. It's not a bad primer to some of the complexities of the subject, but each new bit of the story involves visiting a new location, which means shots of a car on the highway, giant cactuses in the desert, slide-guitar music, and so on. For older children with an interest in science, all this could spark their interest (there are painful efforts to make the narrative cool), but grown-ups may end up feeling, shall we say, weighed down.

RT reviewer - David Butcher
VIDEO Plus+: 572702
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described

Kanga - thank you soo much. Told DS (11) and he says "cool". He did spend hours researching the phenomenen of the Hudson Bay problem (less gravity there than elsewhere in the world)

you're welcome

Brian cox is sooooooo excitable

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Brian Cox used to be in a pop band, can't remember which one now...

thanks i'll set the V+ box for DS1

Does anyone know if it is to be repeated anywhere?
I haven't worked out how to use our new HD recorder thingie yet
But it's too late for ds1.

here is his info

Today's TV listings
Science
Sign Zone:HorizonSaturday 09 February
3:00am - 3:50am
BBC1
What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity?
Science series. Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboardist Dr. Brian Cox believes that the answer to the meaning of the universe lies in gravity. Both Einstein and Newton believed that gravity was powered by God. On a road trip across the USA, Brian fires lasers at the moon in Texas and goes wild in the desert in Arizona. He encounters the bending of space and time at a maximum security military base and tries to detect ripples in our reality in the swamps of Louisiana.
VIDEO Plus+: 8215335
Subtitled, Widescreen, Audio-described, Deaf-signed

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thank you! Dh will be back by then, and he can programme the box

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remember it is in middle of night

I've just dug out the instructions and hopefully programmed the box! Fingers crossed. I'm not sure whether to watch it now though, or tomorrow with ds1.

I am recording it for DS so he can see it tomorrow

Well done for getting it to work

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What an incredible, inspiring programme. I actually found it quite beautiful ... even though I didn't understand it after about 25 mins! Einstein's space-time fabric just confused me: I don't get that at all.

I think ds1 will love it though. I watched 5 mins of a Channel 5 prog last week which was patronising, condescending and incredibly dumbed down. These was a welcome balance to that.

PS I don't know if the HD recorder has worked! The red light was on, which I guess is positive.

Hope it worked Roisin

I channel hopped onto it a few times

Was Brian super excited like a 10 year old?

Only caught the end of it. How is he a doctor? He's about 12.

Dh says he used to be in D:ream (Things Can Only Get Better...)

Have I crossed over into some weird parallel universe where doctors are 12 and in bad popular music ensembles?

He said he was 1 in 1969 (moon landing), so he's older than me: He's wearing well for his age.

I love the passion and enthusiasm, even if I can't quite follow it completely

behind the scenes section here. There's a very funny bit headed "Stretching and squashing" where Brian Cox's producer keeps trying to get him to describe waves, and Cox just doesn't understand what he doesn't understand. It made me laugh:

Brian: I have no idea what you're talking about. If you want me to explain what a wave is then I'll explain what a wave is but you.. to me it's obvious, if you say what I've just said, I've just said that ripples in space and time move out, I've said this, ... so if one of those waves come through here, what happens? Space and time stretch and stretch, it moves through so it passes through it. That does that, and that does that, why is that not obvious? Can someone else other than him tell me that this is incorrect?"

Obvious? What planet is he on? It's all complete gobbledigook to me. Still enjoyed it though.

I was born about a month after the moon landing so he's a year older than me Do you think he has a secret particle physicist method of looking younger (he has frozen his particles in a transverse warp generator black hole thingumabob)?

Gobbledigook to me too - but then there are probably only about 3 people in the world who know if he's actually making it up as he goes along

But WHY do they have to keep filming presenters who look past the camera to someone else? Same with Jamie Oliver. Drives me potty and I can't listen to what they are saying...

Thanks again - my HD worked and ds1 (10) loved the programme. Rather worryingly he seemed to understand far more of it than me, and gibbered on incomprehensibly (to me) for some time afterwards

He brought down a book for me to read The Science of Doctor Who which apparently will be of interest to me. But he's also given me a far simpler children's introduction to Einstein which he thinks I should read first, to catch up!

Thanks again - hit the mark here.
Roisin