Everything and Nothing

An excellent expose of the history and scientific ideas that summarize human, cosmological and physical understanding of the universe.

Difficult to understand ideas are presented in entertaining ways, with great analogies and re-creations.

This mini series is nearly perfect.

The presentation has only two misally hours to wet your whistle. And my whistle was very wetted. You will have to look up the nitty-gritty details to get the full picture. However, the program shows the history of what we have learned about everything and nothing from the beginning of time to 2011. This updates us from what we learned in school. I can not wait for an update at least a decade later.

I will not go into the details other than to say the presenter (Jim Al-Khalili) is just that the presenter. However, he is a British theoretical physicist, Author, respected BBC presenter and frequent commentator about science in British media.

Most of this information is already known. However, there is always something that may have been overlooked. It is also nice to have something presented in a different way.

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.

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.

A great overview of the mathematical and scientific achievements of man that have helped us to understand the true nature of reality. I've watched many, many science documentaries and this one managed to reveal many things I hadn't yet learned, including an experiment proving the quantum foam of nothingness is a real thing, and that the large scale structure of the universe (the macro) is all thanks to quantum fluctuations (the micro). Really everything is so elegantly explained. Highly recommend.