Horizon: Tonight on BBC2 at 9pm. Should be good.
Edit:
Interesting stuff. The first 45 minutes tied in nicely with a previous horizon episode that was on a couple of months back- "Is seeing believing". (It demonstrated that only 10% of the information we use to see comes from our eyes)
Liked the idea that reality itself doesn't 'like' being observed doing strange things.
Then I got lost for 5 minutes or so when they said our reality is really at the edge of an event horizon .... Might have to iplayer this when i'm not so tired.
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:53 pm
by Motorway to Roswell
Safe for the heads up.
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 7:55 pm
by ashley
more weirdo shit on dsf
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:07 pm
by 64hz
Motorway to Roswell wrote:Safe for the heads up.
this, gonna rustle up a meal and eat while watching this.
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:09 pm
by WhosZena
Yes yess
BBC aint all bad
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:13 pm
by knell
WhosZena? wrote:Yes yess
BBC aint all bad
beat me to it
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 8:53 pm
by kay
Good call!
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:21 pm
by firky
IS it any good, I am going to iPlayer it later on. Horizon has a habit of taking interesting subjects and dumbing them down to GCSE level.
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:27 pm
by Shum
firky wrote:Horizon has a habit of taking interesting subjects and dumbing them down to GCSE level.
Makes sense really, they are aiming at a general audience after all.
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 9:28 pm
by WhosZena
Always liking the tone he speaks in. Makes everything seem so peculiar. Though it probably already is.
firky wrote:Horizon has a habit of taking interesting subjects and dumbing them down to GCSE level.
Makes sense really, they are aiming at a general audience after all.
I am esoteric kind of guy or what I prefer to call a pretentious twat
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:04 pm
by WhosZena
Did they ever use that light machine?
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:04 pm
by 64hz
seems pertinent
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:05 pm
by noam
ashley wrote:more weirdo shit on dsf
horizon is on bbc not dsf
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:09 pm
by DRTY
that was pretty cool
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:10 pm
by Coppola
That was a gully documentary. Really enjoyed it. And it really wasn't GCSE level...
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:14 pm
by noam
i know what firky's saying... sometimes i want to be baffled by a documentary on a subject that i have some knowledge of, like, i want it to go a step further, but i always forget that everytime i watch one on something i have no prior knowledge of - at those times the simple idea's are enough to get you interested and keep you entertained.
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:15 pm
by 64hz
yeah i know what you mean, this one didnt really tell me anything new until it started going on about our universe being 3d information stored on a 2d event horizon and i was like shhhheeeiiiiiit. ..
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:32 pm
by kay
WhosZena? wrote:Did they ever use that light machine?
Not yet.
Found it ok, most of the stuff's already been covered in other documentaries over the past year, apart from the new light system for measuring the graininess of space. I thought the narrator/script was trying to make everything a wee bit too mysterious.
LOLed at the smoke machine/liquid nitrogen they used for the quantum computing room to make it look more high tech. And then they switched on the lights.
Re: What is reality?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2011 10:38 pm
by WhosZena
kay wrote:
WhosZena? wrote:Did they ever use that light machine?
Not yet.
Was just getting exited for the results, then nothing.