I watched this, twice actually, on PBS's NOVA programming. I am a Scientist, educated in Maths and Physics, so I have always admired and had at least a general interest in Albert Einstein. However I wonder how interesting this program would be to a non-science person?
Well I found every minute of it thoroughly interesting and at times even entertaining. The film uses an actor, Hamza Ripley, as Albert Einstein in his 30s working on his theories. He doesn't have any lines but his looks and costuming remind us very much of Einstein at that age.
The script has modern day Physicists and Mathematicians explaining Einstein's process, especially his use of "thought experiments", to sort out ideas and to formulate his world-changing theories of the universe, many of which have since then been verified via scientific experimentation.
It is hard to overstate how important Einstein's theories are, and how great an achievement it was for one person working and thinking on his own to come up with what amounts an entirely new way of thinking about things. It makes me wonder, what would the world be like today had Einstein never come along?
And let us never forget Einstein's quote, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result."
Good program.
Well I found every minute of it thoroughly interesting and at times even entertaining. The film uses an actor, Hamza Ripley, as Albert Einstein in his 30s working on his theories. He doesn't have any lines but his looks and costuming remind us very much of Einstein at that age.
The script has modern day Physicists and Mathematicians explaining Einstein's process, especially his use of "thought experiments", to sort out ideas and to formulate his world-changing theories of the universe, many of which have since then been verified via scientific experimentation.
It is hard to overstate how important Einstein's theories are, and how great an achievement it was for one person working and thinking on his own to come up with what amounts an entirely new way of thinking about things. It makes me wonder, what would the world be like today had Einstein never come along?
And let us never forget Einstein's quote, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result."
Good program.
