Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking

Newer than my school days but now getting a tad long in the tooth. Still covers many things that one might have missed.

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 - E1 Aliens

We get a Stephen Hawking view of Aliens. Makes me think of Carl Sagan on Alien Abduction and Cosmos, who making love to an alien is like making love to a petunia.

We start out with a large numbers overview. There are lots of psychedelic graphics to have something to watch while listening to a narration on big galaxies and speculating on alien environments.

There is an annoying English narrator, instead of a good California neutral accent. Drives me up the wall as the narrator cannot pronounce evolution.

We are treated to a compare and contrast to Star Wars and Star Trek. Speculation from spontaneous to asteroids. Just add water. Now voyaging to the vastness beyond our solar system.

He prefers to talk about the observatory in Hawaii. I prefer the one in Griffith Park as I know it. And we are off again into space. Space is alive.

We get speculation on the chemistry of life. The average male hold about 6 gallons of water. This implies that the average female cannot old water.

Stephen Hawking likes as a standard abduction story a person lost alone in nowhere at night. I prefer "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" (1958). Again, Carl Sagan preferred petunias.

Looks like we will have to wait and see when they get here.

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 - E2 Time travel

Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions such as, is time travel possible? Can we open a portal to the past? Or find a shortcut to the future?

We start out with a large numbers overview. There are lots of psychedelic graphics to have something to watch while listening to a narration on the nature of time as seen by Stephen Hawking.

There is an annoying English speech impediment, instead of a good California neutral accent. So, several words will be mispronounced.

We need to look at time the way physicists do. The fourth dimension. It sounds almost pornographic as he describes tiny worm holes and their properties. Oh, the space/time type of worm hole.

We are treated to visions of tiny crevasses, wrinkles, and voids. Oh my!

We get a lesson on why we should not Feed the wormhole. Now we look at GPS and its part in time differentials. By this time, you may wat to take a break as concepts move faster. I suspect there may be some fillers. Revisit black holes and light speed. Lots of "Ifs"

Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 - E3 The Story of Everything

Free to tour the universe. We start out with a large numbers overview. There are lots of psychedelic graphics to have something to watch while going from the big bang to life, to the end of time (or forever.) We get a quickie about dark energy.

There is an annoying English speech impediment, instead of a good California neutral accent.

We get a Newton version of gravity or non-relativistic classical mechanics that treats time as a universal quantity of measurement which is uniform throughout space and separate from space. Instead of an Einstein general theory of relativity, wherein spacetime is curved by mass and energy. The spacetime of special relativity is today known as "Minkowski spacetime."

As some sort of joke, we get how the end of the earth will affect the Japanese stock market.

Compared to other similar documentary miniseries (Wonders of the Universe, Cosmos) I found this one to be somewhat sloppy and cheesy in tone.

In terms of script, consider just two things I remember from the third episode: 1. Stephen Hawking (or his narrator) calls us a breed of monkey, when in fact we're a species of ape. 2. Stephen Hawking (or his narrator) says that for a room floor covered in evenly-spaced spheres, they all experience the same gravity from each other, which is of course false because the gravity at the boundaries would be different than the gravity in the middle.

The first two episodes I would rate as 6/10, wild and wasteful speculation with pretty graphics and annoying music.

Only the third episode is worth watching, if you understand it's been dumbed down and hyped up for today's US audiences. But because it's twice as long as the previous two, I rounded the score up to 7/10.

This, This is one of the most fantastic Documentary's i have ever seen! Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking is just mind blowing! Stephen Hawking is just such an intelligent man, one of the most intelligent people in the world and his knowledge of this subject is really something special. The way he tells all this just makes me want to know more about all this! It is all told in a way that keeps you glued to the screen and just makes you feel that you cant wait for what he tells next. Stephen Hawking tells this in a way that makes you believe what he tells. The graphics and colours looks so beautiful, and all this takes you onto a journey into the universe. So if you are interested in the universe and all about this then you should watch this!

This is one of the most fantastic Documentary's i have seen! Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking is just epic! Especially the third episode: The Story o everything, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1658580/? ref_=ttep_epI wish they would do more documentary's like this. The complete series: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1655078/

If you're gonna see any of this series, watch the third episode. The first and the second are more speculations then theories or facts.

I began watching this only because I wanted to hear the chocolatey baritone of Benedict Cumberbatch, but in about five minutes my nose was glued to the screen.

This stuff is like a Doctor Who episode without the 'fiction' label. I personally found the time travel episode mesmerizing. I definitely recommend this series... especially to people like me who may regretfully lack a very good familiarity with physics. This is very easy to understand, and will blow your mind at least four times a minute.

I am an average young adult (blonde, no less) who got through physics class in high school by memorizing formulas I didn't understand and cramming them into my cranium so I could remember them for an hour long exam, and forget them the second it was over. Why bother to retain it? I was planning to pursue music in college anyway... and I feel like there are all too many people out there who did similar things. Ignored the beauties of physical science to provide more time to do the things which seemed - and undoubtedly were - more important. This is a series which really provides insight into the world of science - the world we all know exists, but often try to ignore, since we know we will never likely have the patience to try and understand it. Beginning to understand this stuff makes you realize why all the annoying genius students in 10th grade would get so obnoxiously excited as they conversed using terms which seemed like other languages.

The possibilities of the universe are really very startling, and very exciting. I recommend this series to anyone who as any interest at all in the potential of humankind.