Science on DVD
Discussion
Please don't move this to the tv section mods, it's about science, not dvds - honest.
What would you recommend?
Carl Sagan's Cosmos is the best science series ever as far as I'm concerned. I saw it when it was first aired when I was in the 6th form and got it as a boxed set a couple of years ago, image quality not so hot (90" projector screen rather than Mum and Dads 21" tv may have had a part to play in that) but content wise there is no equal, I had hoped that Brian Cox's series was going to be a modern update with better graphics, but nice pictures aside he was no-where near.
Any other gems?
What would you recommend?
Carl Sagan's Cosmos is the best science series ever as far as I'm concerned. I saw it when it was first aired when I was in the 6th form and got it as a boxed set a couple of years ago, image quality not so hot (90" projector screen rather than Mum and Dads 21" tv may have had a part to play in that) but content wise there is no equal, I had hoped that Brian Cox's series was going to be a modern update with better graphics, but nice pictures aside he was no-where near.
Any other gems?
Peter Ustinov a presented a good programme in which he explained the theory of relativity using trains. No idea if it's on DVD though.
I still recall Carl Sagan's illustration of 'Flatland' where people only existed in two dimensions. Anything coming from a third dimension (ie what we would call 'above') would seem to appear from nowhere. Extrapolate that to our three dimensions and you can see how extra dimensions are beyond our comprehension!
I still recall Carl Sagan's illustration of 'Flatland' where people only existed in two dimensions. Anything coming from a third dimension (ie what we would call 'above') would seem to appear from nowhere. Extrapolate that to our three dimensions and you can see how extra dimensions are beyond our comprehension!
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