Everything and Nothing

This short series gives a beautiful presentation of our journey in understanding the nature of reality. Although it being mostly from an European perspective, in it's essence, the journey of humans in understanding the true nature of reality is breathtaking.

Great explanations of these hard-to-grasp theories. Very creative visualisations. Engaging narration.

Unfortunate BBC documentary with a false perspective from the usual British egocentrism, islands without which the civilized world would not exist. Greek culture and science Arabs and the Chinese and Mesoamerican civilizations are skipped at a stroke. Modern astronomy is not due to Copernicus, Galileo, but to some unknown. Surprise, all Anglo-Saxons! I'm sorry I stopped watching the documentary.

Speaks in entirely generalized terms about the understanding of the Universe from a European/British historical perspective, while completely and deliberately ignoring the ancient yet advanced Indian understanding of a heliocentric solar system in particular and a nuanced understanding of the Universe in general. The Indian astronomer- mathematician Aryabhata (476- 550 AD), in his magnum opus Aryabhatiya, had propounded a heliocentric model in which the Earth was taken to be spinning on its axis and the periods of the planets were given with respect to a stationary Sun. The ancient Greeks probably pre-dated even Arybhata. However, all credit to Copernicus, inspite of being 18 centuries late.

The guy is literally trying to be Carl Sagan without giving any respects to Carl Sagan. It gave very cosmos rip off vibes. How are you gonna start on the sands exactly like Sagan did and repeat his exact words without giving credit. 🤢