Relativity. A road trip.
Jan. 29th, 2008 09:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaningI am sitting watching Horizon, on BBC2. It is a programme featuring Brian Cox - no, not that one - not the original Hannibal Lecter - this Brian Cox is a physicist.
And in its typical style of modern day dumbing down, Horizon have sent the very youthful Brian on a road trip. (Physicists. They're getting younger every day.) He's investigating gravity and space-time by driving from telescope to military installation to atom-smashing laboratory across the deserts of the USA.
It sounded awful.
It is actually brilliant - he is entertaining, intelligent, and he would be great company on a long, long car journey.
I can even pretend I understand what he's talking about!
And in its typical style of modern day dumbing down, Horizon have sent the very youthful Brian on a road trip. (Physicists. They're getting younger every day.) He's investigating gravity and space-time by driving from telescope to military installation to atom-smashing laboratory across the deserts of the USA.
It sounded awful.
It is actually brilliant - he is entertaining, intelligent, and he would be great company on a long, long car journey.
I can even pretend I understand what he's talking about!