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The NOVA: The Elegant Universe [DVD] [2003] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]

DVD ~ Michael Duff
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  • Actors: Michael Duff, Brian Greene, Michael B. Green, Walter Lewin, Joseph Lykken
  • Directors: Joseph McMaster, Julia Cort
  • Writers: Brian Greene, Joseph McMaster, Julia Cort
  • Producers: Joseph McMaster, Andrea Cross, David Hickman
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
  • Studio: WGBH Boston
  • DVD Release Date: 20 Jan 2004
  • Run Time: 180 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000ZG0TA
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 29,774 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Concepts for the conceptualess, 4 Nov 2004
By bernie "xyzzy" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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Depending where you are coming from and where you are going to, there is something for everyone. There are people that keep up with the latest information on the universe; for those people this is a great program to show where the public is. It also is nice to have what you already know restated so you can look at it from a different angle. For people that slept through school or attended in the Stone Age this is may be a shocker for the last time you looked. Then there are people that see this as a wakeup call for the first time.
The program is designed to give you basic information about the latest theories on how the universe works and goes beyond Einstein to attempt to tie all the theories up into a single elegant bundle (Superstrings.)
The visuals help and having a different media allows one to retain information better. However the format leaves something to be desired. The redundancy goes beyond reinforcing to boredom. The sound byte format of leaping from one person to another, when it is just as possible to stay with one person for a completed thought, is like watching a used car commercial. Any one concept could be a whole program in it's self (and probably is.) They show a formula and say "here it is"; then two seconds later it is gone and they are off on another subject.
In any event you will not look at the universe in the same old way.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A very good documentary in physics!, 9 Jan 2005
A great production of NOVA based on the best-seller book of Brian Greene. This is a very ingenious documentary of physics with an excellent animation made of great special effects that help you to visualize the physical ideas, like for example, the fabric of space-time. With the help of great interviews with many important physicists like Steven Weinberg, John Schwarz, Michael Green, Ed Witten, Jim Gates... Brian Greene explains to the public the basic ideas of general relativity and quantum mechanics, then the conflict between them and finally the string theory itself, the promising ultimate theory of Cosmos. The part I of this three-part show is in my opinion the best one because it presents a very good historical introduction of the development of physics and explains the main ideas of newtonian gravitation, general relativity, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics in a very simple way. As a physicist I obviously didn't learn anything new but I enjoy very much to watch this three-part show and I recommend it to everyone.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A very good documentary!, 9 Jan 2005
A great production of NOVA based on the best-seller book of Brian Greene. This is a very ingenious documentary of physics with an excellent animation made of great special effects that helps you to visualize the physical ideas, like for example, the fabric of space-time. With the help of great interviews with many important physicists like Steven Weinberg, John Schwarz, Michael Green, Ed Witten, Jim Gates,..., Brian Greene explains to the public the basic ideas of general relativity and quantum mechanics, then the conflict between them and finally the string theory itself, the promising ultimate theory of Cosmos. The part I of this three-part show is in my opinion the best one because it presents a very good historical introduction of the development of physics and explains the main ideas of newtonian gravitation, general relativity, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics in a very simple way. As a physicist I obviously didn't learn nothing new but I enjoy very much to watch this three-part show and I recommend it to everyone.
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