Cebalord Very best movie i ever watch

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Freeman This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

garymacphail-1 I found this to be the most informative and delightful documentary I have seen in years. It shows how man knew of lightning, discovered the nature of electricity. How magnetism had been known for centuries and then that the two separate forces were brought together as one through brilliant experiments.Later light is found to be of the same properties of electricity and magnetism. Other, more elemental discoveries, would prove to be instrumental to help Einstein bring all of this together to figure out the mechanics of how the sub-molecular forces which allow everything in existence to thrive.Without one piece of this puzzle, people would have never have been able to realize how things work.This is the first report as to how to we came to understand the Universe and utilize its properties.

tennov1 The program gave a hint of what females might have been capable of had we not had to struggle under cultural practices that are still making it harder to publish important scientific thoughts than were we male.I believe there are psychological sex differences, but we can't settle on what they are. That which is statistically measured (e.g., responses to questionnaires) may be trivial. Or the difference may be of great and obvious universal significance (e.g. anatomical and motivational aspects of the sex act). Considering the obstacles to intellectual achievement and communication, that women were depicted in the program is a tribute to what may ultimately turn out to be a true statistical female intellectual superiority. There are some signs of it among school children. Or there may not be. It is hard to hold impinging variables constant. One thing is certain: women have been more capable than formerly they were almost universally believed to be.In addition to social obstacles there was our dangerous biological role (which is much safer today). But what is allowable or encouraged differs greatly in different parts of the world. It has also changed greatly during the seven decades of my lifetime in this culture.

Gary Jablonski This film is a good mix of science documentary and historical content. The big-budget production quality with period correct scenes and costumes gives the viewer a feeling of being there. The film presents well many of the human aspects of scientific discovery. Since the show is not presented in chronological order the viewer may get a little confused. The film shows that even high ranking persons in academic circles have emotions and let their personality drive their behavior sometimes allowing their ego to do unkind actions. The science and math content may be a little too fundamental for the avid NOVA viewer, but it does cover the basics well. Interviews with contemporary researchers in the field provide more insight into the the events that lead up to Enistein's discovery. The film doesn't stop at E=mc2, but continues to show how it relates to future science and drives research today.

lindasko1999 (hello other poster in Canada!) :) I just saw this show, too, and FINALLY a couple of things were explained to me in ways that I understood them! It's not that that was the AIM of the show, but a couple of interviewees just happened to say something, and PRESTO, I got it! I've been trying to wrap my head around travel at the speed of light, etc for decades, and now I get it (more or less, speaking as a lay-person!) I love history, biographies, and have always been interested in Albert Einstein, so this show was really really wonderful.I want to find out how to contact the producers of this show to commend them on it!