Johnny what's your input on how they portrayed the black holes?
It looked a little matrix-ish to me.
Pretty consistent with pretty much every interpretation I've seen. But I'm no expert on how they'd likely look in nature.
They'd probably look pretty black.
Good episode, but the 45 minute run time is limiting. A lot of things are just glossed over.
[QUOTE=booster;44409382]The black hole parts looked really cool.[/QUOTE]
I honestly thought that when NDT was being sucked into the hole, it was the goofiest thing. I burst out laughing at watching him try to act.
I'm loving the series so much. Each episode is better and better. Always leave me feeling inspired.
Definitely. The last episode was great and I'll admit the very end got to me. I've heard him tell that story long before Cosmos even aired so I immediately recognized what he was about to talk about. I love how they handled the "we could be inside a black hole" point. It's something from the original, even if very theoretical, that totally blew my mind when I first watched it years ago. This episode also had a great Cosmos-tier line in "When we look farther into the universe, we come to what appears to be the end of space. But actually, it's the beginning of time."
On this last episode, the only thing I can criticize is something that was already mentioned. There are some very, very big subjects that they just gloss over. I don't know if it's because they'll cover it later, they don't have the time, or something else. For example the "everywhere is the center of the universe" mention can be expanded to a 10 minute section because to explain that fully and really get across the implications of such can get really involved.
But yeah, great episode. Really good episode.
I'm really curious if and how they will do the 2 and 4 dimension segment from the original. It's one of my favorites from the original series and one of the most fun to watch.
So all those weird sounds and filter moments in the latest episode, was just to hint at the way that there's so much more we can't see?
"When you travel at the speed of light, time stops!"
plz don't say that ndgt that is just a bad thing to claim
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Kind of not a very good depiction of the hydrogen atom either.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;44478097]
Kind of not a very good depiction of the hydrogen atom either.[/QUOTE]
I agree.
They should've shown something like this:
[img]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1XQTKAr9--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/18ontxblfw77lpng.png[/img]
[sp]There's no such thing. Atoms are invisible to direct observation, how do you expect an accurate depiction?[/sp]
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;44478255]I agree.
They should've shown something like this:
[img]http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1XQTKAr9--/c_fit,fl_progressive,w_636/18ontxblfw77lpng.png[/img]
[sp]There's no such thing. Atoms are invisible to direct observation, how do you expect an accurate depiction?[/sp][/QUOTE]
That is a much more accurate depiction though. It doesn't actually [I]look[/I] like that, but it's a much better picture of what is going on.
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An electron spinning around in a classical orbit is neither what it looks like nor a useful model of what's going on.
They portrayed the atom just like they would at High School level, all the content in this episode was also high school physics, what's the problem?
The were talking about the quantum nature of the hydrogen atom and depicting it classically so I don't understand what you mean. We certainly never talked about quantum mechanics in my high school physics class.
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Nor relativity, actually.
[QUOTE=JohnnyMo1;44478493]The were talking about the quantum nature of the hydrogen atom and depicting it classically so I don't understand what you mean. We certainly never talked about quantum mechanics in my high school physics class.
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Nor relativity, actually.[/QUOTE]
We did it at Higher/Advanced Higher Physics over here in Scotland.
All the show as trying to show was that the electron leaps to different 'orbitals' when it absorbs energy and this allows elements to be identified, this was perfectly understandable with the classic depiction. This show is aimed at people who don't know much about Science, throwing Quantum theory all over the place will just make them turn off.
[QUOTE=Thom12255;44478622]We did it at Higher/Advanced Higher Physics over here in Scotland.
All the show as trying to show was that the electron leaps to different 'orbitals' when it absorbs energy and this allows elements to be identified, this was perfectly understandable with the classic depiction. This show is aimed at people who don't know much about Science, throwing Quantum theory all over the place will just make them turn off.[/QUOTE]
I find it hard to believe that people who are watching Cosmos are going to be turned off by a little more science. I don't think many people are watching the show who don't at least marginally have an interest in physics already. It's not like I'm saying he should be deriving the hydrogen wave function the whole episode. Something like, "but this isn't how the electron actually behaves... yadda yadda cloud of probability yadda yadda." Show an orbital. Show a jump to the next orbital.
Of course, if they do another episode on quantum mechanics, I won't complain.
Still, i don't think we'll ever know how an atom looks like. Every depiction out there is just an interpretation. Single atoms are pretty much invisible.
Ironically that picture you posted is actually the first direct image of an atom so I'm kinda not sure what you're getting at. We'll never know what it would look in visible light, like a very small naked eye would see it? It would doubtless not be very interesting. That image is a much better representation of the structure of an atom than anything we'd see.
[QUOTE=MatheusMCardoso;44478255]I agree.
[sp]There's no such thing. Atoms are invisible to direct observation, how do you expect an accurate depiction?[/sp][/QUOTE]
[t]http://cdn.phys.org/newman/gfx/news/2012/atomicforcem.jpg[/t]
um they've had microscopes that can see atoms now for several years... they are really really powerful
Just saw the most recent episode. It was very enLIGHTening!
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Also, when they were doing that "What was that noise?" thing, I thought I was going crazy because I heard Rhapsody in Blue in there. An appropriate song choice, don't you think?
What are those gamma ray light "explosions" in the sky at the end?
Probably: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst[/url]
Although I don't remember that part.
That spectroscopy part was really interesting, had no idea each element projects a unique "shadow" which is what we use to identify the elements of stuff in space, some mind blowing shit.
Science is awesome.
Last episode was for the best and most informative of the series so far. Quite mind blowing, in a way, light is "everything" in the universe in terms of what it provides of information and what it causes
I just learned how spectrum analysis works. Neat!
Spectrum analysis never failed to over impress me.
That neutrino detector is pretty crazy. Is that really how it looks? It produces a big ring of visible light when it strikes something?
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;44539850]That neutrino detector is pretty crazy. Is that really how it looks? It produces a big ring of visible light when it strikes something?[/QUOTE]
The neutrino detector he was in (or CGI'd into) actually does detect Cherenkov radiation like what you might see in a nuclear reactor. So yeah it's probably blue at least, but I imagine it can only give off a few hundred photons, which might not even be noticeable to the human eye. But if it's in pitch black darkness who knows.