View Full Version : Ch4 9pm Stephen Hawking, Master of the Universe PART TWO tonight.
This looks good tonite,
its a 2 parter on ch4 and features(obviously) Prof Stephen Hawking,on how he copes with his illness,his thoughts about time & space and his past and future. ;)
im wondering if he mentions how his wife used to beat him up.,poor swine.
9pm,ch4.
I wonder if he'll answer the ultimate question?
Why he uses that rubbish speech synthesiser rather than a state of the art 'normal' sounding one.
RiceRocket
03-03-08, 19:54
Ah something cerebral to watch after the doubtless banality of Five's preceding motor show. :)
One for the Sky +
Cheers Darren.
Yep got it programmed to come on & 5th wheel.
I wonder if he'll answer the ultimate question?
Why he uses that rubbish speech synthesiser rather than a state of the art 'normal' sounding one.
yeh whats that about ?
i mean born in Shrewsbury, speaks with an american accent !!
One for the Sky +
Cheers Darren.
your welcome ;)
I wonder if he'll answer the ultimate question?
Why he uses that rubbish speech synthesiser rather than a state of the art 'normal' sounding one.
I read an interview with him a while back where someone asked him that. He said that after so many years with the same one, another voice just wouldn't sound like him.
well i thought that was ace,
a lot of the physics explained i did allready know,except for the negative paricles being drawn into the black hole whilst the positive particles are radiated around the black holes :)
part 2 next week should be great.
RiceRocket
03-03-08, 23:12
Excellent programme, a doddle to understand compared to Lost! :p
Excellent programme, a doddle to understand compared to Lost! :p
did you like me find the profs ability to communicate using just his cheek muscle amazing ?
without pausing or anything.
your welcome ;)
Come on Martin, You're slacking!!
Come on Martin, You're slacking!!
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RiceRocket
04-03-08, 01:14
did you like me find the profs ability to communicate using just his cheek muscle amazing ?
without pausing or anything.
It was almost like he had a telepathic link with his synthesizer ;)
I'm yet to watch it...I'm wondering if me old sparring partner Imi saw it and what he thought? :)
I thought it was excellent. A proper, hard-science documentary on at peak viewing time with no attempt whatsoever to dumb it down or dress it up with pointless arty rubbish. Roll on part 2!
Was anyone else surprised that it was the negative mass particles that got pulled into the black hole? I suppose it makes sense when the particles are right on the very edge of the point where they would both get sucked in, but not quite. The positive mass particle has enough energy to escape but the negative mass one doesn't (for some reason they didn't explain). I was wondering why a negative mass particle wouldn't be repelled away, but I guess that's the whole point. Once inside, nothing can escape, not even radiation, and at the quantum level particles are waves and waves are particles, so a negative mass particle is just another kind of wave with specific properties that make it have negative mass in Einsteinian physics.
Bonkers. I loved it. More programmes like this, please :)
BTW, what was the name of that professor that inspired Hawking and pulled him out of his depression? I read a really good book on black holes when I was in my teens and I was wondering if it was written by him.
I thought it was excellent. A proper, hard-science documentary on at peak viewing time with no attempt whatsoever to dumb it down or dress it up with pointless arty rubbish. Roll on part 2!
Was anyone else surprised that it was the negative mass particles that got pulled into the black hole? I suppose it makes sense when the particles are right on the very edge of the point where they would both get sucked in, but not quite. The positive mass particle has enough energy to escape but the negative mass one doesn't (for some reason they didn't explain). I was wondering why a negative mass particle wouldn't be repelled away, but I guess that's the whole point. Once inside, nothing can escape, not even radiation, and at the quantum level particles are waves and waves are particles, so a negative mass particle is just another kind of wave with specific properties that make it have negative mass in Einsteinian physics.
Bonkers. I loved it. More programmes like this, please :)
well said Digsy,it was realy enjoyable it was like Horizon used to be like in the 80`s :)
on a footnote the negative particles couldnt escape as they had no mass,and its just that (no mass) which eventualy will shrink the black hole to sub atomic size,because the black hole is absorbing particles of negative mass,i was stuck at the part as to why the positive mass particles are enabled to float and radiate around the black hole - after all planets etc have mass and they dont float around the entrance to the black hole,i was flummoxed and gobsmacked all at the same time.
quantum physics at its fines.
bloody hell, i dont know what was more impressive. the problems he gets his brain round or the fight to keep going in him.
Really good programme, cant wait for pt 2.
RiceRocket
04-03-08, 10:32
BTW, what was the name of that professor that inspired Hawking and pulled him out of his depression?
Mathematician Roger Penrose?
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It's not about spelling, it's about using the right bleedin' word, which Matt did.
It's not about spelling, it's about using the right bleedin' word, which Matt did.
at least i wasnt agressive and it was meant light heartedly ;)
Mathematician Roger Penrose?
Ah Ok. It wasn't him then. This (http://www.amazon.com/Black-Warped-Spacetime-William-Kaufmann/dp/0716711532)is the book I read, by William Kaufmann.
RiceRocket
04-03-08, 11:19
I know it has gone downhill a bit but this is what's on Horizon tonight if you're interested
For fifty years, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence has been scanning the galaxy for a message from an alien civilisation. So far to no avail, but a recent breakthrough suggests they may one day succeed. Horizon joins the planet hunters who've discovered a new world called Gliese 581 c. It is the most Earth-like planet yet found around another star and may have habitats capable of supporting life. NASA too hopes to find fifty more Earth-like planets by the end of the decade, all of which dramatically increases the chance that alien life has begun elsewhere in the galaxy.
Gaz Walker
04-03-08, 11:23
Hugely enjoyed this, can't wait the next one.
was anyone else suprised by the demonstration of the relative distance of the electron from the actual atom?
i was gobsmacked.
RiceRocket
04-03-08, 12:00
And the size of our galaxy using the library shown represented as the known universe. :shock:
Lukeyboy2k
04-03-08, 12:08
I know it has gone downhill a bit but this is what's on Horizon tonight if you're interested
I really hope they manage to broadcast a watchable program tonight. I think the whole series thus far this year has been pathetic. I normally find myself turning off after half an hour nowadays. :(
I remember watching Horizon when I was a child in the 1980's - those were the glory days.
Rob Dublin
04-03-08, 12:21
Thought Hawkings parting statement was a classic. When asked had he any regrets about his professional career he said he regretted not forming a theory on quantum gravity (or some other sciency jargon) but that if he had it wouldn't have left much for anyone else to do!! Gotta love the cocky bastid!!!
Very enjoyable, i can't get my head round how people can come up with these theories then spoend much of their waking life trying to prove or disprove them.
There was a program on earlier in the year around the same theme, a young professor was the narrator and presenter that was a good watch too.
I am looking forward to seeing what happens when they switch on the LHC (?) machine later this year, maybe a theory of everything can be discovered :)
Did anyone ask him about black holes on treadmills though :eyebrows:
Proper informative TV, though :blink: What went wrong? When will the madness stop?
-Ian
Gutted I missed this, sounds like it was my kinda programme:(
Gutted I missed this, sounds like it was my kinda programme:(
im sure it will be repeated mate,its prob available on catch up tv as well,
worth watching ;)
Is it repeated at all? I missed it.
im sure it will be repeated mate,its prob available on catch up tv as well,
worth watching ;)
Forgot about that i-program/on demand stuff. Never used it before. It's free right? I'm away next week so gonna miss that one too, so I hope they are available!
I Just checked Virgin media tv and its on catch up Tv for 1 week ;)
* yes catch up tv is free.
I'd still love to hear him say "Shall we play a game?"
I Just checked Virgin media tv and its on catch up Tv for 1 week ;)
* yes catch up tv is free.
Virgin media tv isn't though.
I'd still love to hear him say "Shall we play a game?"
:rlol: :D
Good program this, first intelligent thing ive seen on telly for ages :d
Takes a brave man to disprove pretty much every main stream religion, bet he is loved by the pope!
It wasnt a miricle.. it was a black hole :p
Virgin media tv isn't though.
right i was under the understanding that if its repeated on virgin media ch4 then surely its repeated on 4 catch up ? If you have freeview or any kind of cable tv then its likely repeated.
Gaz Walker
04-03-08, 17:34
I'd still love to hear him say "Shall we play a game?"
Haha :D
I loved that film :)
Gaz.
Its a real shame that Gods work will kill him before Stevens work proves God doesn't exist.
Its a real shame that Gods work will kill him before Stevens work proves God doesn't exist.
yeh exactly,i mean he was born not long after einsteins death,. who the hell will replace Stephen ?
Altho saying that,there might be someone growing up right now who will replace him,.. or he might live long enough for the cure for his disease to be found,. he might only need another 5 years after all before a cure is found.who knows. ?
total immense genius tho.
Its a real shame that Gods work will kill him before Stevens work proves God doesn't exist.
Quite- but keep the faith (if you forgive me ;) ) there's one born every now and then :D
was anyone else suprised by the demonstration of the relative distance of the electron from the actual atom?
i was gobsmacked.
That's what all this research is about at paces like Cern. If everything is made of atoms, yet atoms themselves have huge voids of nothingness inside them, then the vast majority of what we know as space is comprised of nothing at all. or summat.
yeh whats that about ?
i mean born in Shrewsbury, speaks with an american accent !!
I didn't realise that.
June 23 1942, he's getting on a bit.
This was interesting.
At the celebration of his 65th birthday on January 8, 2007, Hawking announced his plans for a zero-gravity flight in 2007 to prepare for a sub-orbital spaceflight in 2009 on Virgin Galactic's space service. Billionaire Richard Branson pledged to pay all expenses for the flight, costing an estimated $163,100,000. Stephen Hawking's zero-gravity flight of Zero Gravity Corporation, during which he experienced weightlessness eight times, took place on April 26, 2007.
$163,000??? really, it's just a plane with no seats going up and down in a big arc.
Edit> $163,100,000! $163million dollars?
Part 2 is on tonite,
this is on at 9:00 on ch4 -
It was good last week and quite a few people said they liked it,
so heads up,part 2 tonite ;)
RiceRocket
10-03-08, 19:12
Looking forward to this.
Everything you've ever wanted to know about String Theory and Supersymmetry :cool:
Cheers i would've missed it
I've merged this with last weeks thread and changed the title slightly.
If you can keep posting in here to keep things tidy it'd be much appreciated and, next week , I'll update the title again.
Cheers guys, looked in the paper and thought nothing was on tonight (apart from 5th Gear)
Watched it last week and loved it - so thanks again for reminder!!!!!
Jim
RiceRocket
10-03-08, 21:04
If you can keep posting in here to keep things tidy it'd be much appreciated and, next week , I'll update the title again.
Its not on next week :p
I've merged this with last weeks thread and changed the title slightly.
If you can keep posting in here to keep things tidy it'd be much appreciated and, next week , I'll update the title again.
thats a great idea Red thanks,
im greafull.
RiceRocket
10-03-08, 23:19
mmm donuts! :drool: (or should it be toruses)
Yeh they nearly lost me at one point,very intense ideas being thrown around,i would of prefered more solid ground but either way it was very interesting and again i enjoyed ;)
peter richards
10-03-08, 23:55
there we are then bubbles it is ??????????
there we are then bubbles it is ??????????
yeh i guess,each bubble being a different universe,a total of 11 dimensions (they predict ) not just up and down,left and right or backward and forward - another 8 on top of the dimensions as we know it - thats how they explain gravity !!
however im sure gravity is more easly explained than that .
RiceRocket
11-03-08, 12:12
So is time itself not a dimension then?
RiceRocket
30-03-08, 14:32
I remember a few people saying they missed this excellent programme so it's repeated again tonight at 7pm on C4 (Series link it for part 2's broadcast)
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