"Everything and nothing" is an interesting and pleasantly watchable documentary about mankind's attempt at grasping the nature of the cosmos. The mini-series reflects a Western viewpoint, but this seems to be caused not by cultural chauvinism but rather by a wish to keep the explanation clear and concise.
The first episode deals with humanity's attempts at describing very very large things : stars, galaxies, the universe itself. The second deals with our attempts at describing very very small things, such as the components of an atom. Among the questions treated : how old is the universe, how many stars are there, why is it dark at night, where did this idea of nature abhorring a vacuum come from, does air have a weight, is there such a thing or such a state as complete nothingness ? The documentary also contains short biographies of the remarkable men and women who helped pierce a number of nature's secrets.
Speaking as a complete layperson : I rather liked "Everything and nothing", mainly for its didactic clarity. It was a pleasure to hear experts explain difficult concepts in an intelligible way. I also liked the accompanying images, many of which induced a deep sense of awe.
Anyway, it must be most frustrating to be a modern-day scientist active in fields like physics, astronomy and cosmology. To perform this kind of job requires order, patience, discipline and seriousness of mind. However, if and when answers arrive, they are so weird and so counter-intuitive that they might have been designed by a committee of stoners led by a four-year-old out of his trumpet on sugar. ("Of course time and space are linked ! Man ! That's why you can only have a good time if you're in a good place ! By the way, if you want to watch the invisible show yesterday you need to tip the waiter tomorrow.") If I were a scientist, I'd be sorely tempted to go and lie on an old mattress myself, in order to smoke pot and giggle about nothingness annihilating itself into being.
