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.

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.

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

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. 🤢

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.