Darren-K Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedM Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Ah something cerebral to watch after the doubtless banality of Five's preceding motor show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 One for the Sky + Cheers Darren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Black Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Yep got it programmed to come on & 5th wheel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 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 !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 One for the Sky + Cheers Darren. your welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 Excellent programme, a doddle to understand compared to Lost! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 Excellent programme, a doddle to understand compared to Lost! did you like me find the profs ability to communicate using just his cheek muscle amazing ? without pausing or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt k Posted March 3, 2008 Share Posted March 3, 2008 your welcome Come on Martin, You're slacking!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted March 3, 2008 Author Share Posted March 3, 2008 Come on Martin, You're slacking!! http://v7music.com/your.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 I'm yet to watch it...I'm wondering if me old sparring partner Imi saw it and what he thought? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMG Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 BTW, what was the name of that professor that inspired Hawking and pulled him out of his depression? Mathematician Roger Penrose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 http://v7music.com/your.html It's not about spelling, it's about using the right bleedin' word, which Matt did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Mathematician Roger Penrose? Ah Ok. It wasn't him then. This is the book I read, by William Kaufmann. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Walker Posted March 4, 2008 Share Posted March 4, 2008 Hugely enjoyed this, can't wait the next one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren-K Posted March 4, 2008 Author Share Posted March 4, 2008 was anyone else suprised by the demonstration of the relative distance of the electron from the actual atom? i was gobsmacked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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