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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
High Quality CG Animation realizes String Theory to Everyone,
By Otto Yuen (Toronto, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nova--The Elegant Universe (DVD)
I was struggling whether I should spend $35Cdn (I bought this from amazon.ca) on this 'String Theory' that I have no clue of what it is but only aware of the interesting sound of 'Theory of Everything'. I was also worrying my limited education background and brain capacity for such complex concept. I took the risk and completed my order. Two days later, I got my dvd delivered to my door, couldn't stand finishing my dinner, I opened it and watched it right away.The first 3 minutes was the trailer/intro of this 3 hours DVD. It really drew my attention with interesting topics and high quality special effects & CG animation. I knew my $35Cdn was very well spent. The first hour talked about the ground concepts of basic forces: Gravity & Quantum Mechanics. Don't worry, you don't need a science or physic degree to understand these concepts. The beauty of this DVD is that it uses various scenarios, via pictures, animiation, & special effects to depict the complex concepts to you in a very simple & understandable way. Trust me, even your grade 6 children are able to comprehend the elegant universe theory from this DVD. The first hour was focusing on these basic forces, what Albert Einstein wanted to do with unification, and what the problems were. The second hour talked about how the String theory evolve and help to solve the puzzle of Einstein's unification problem. And the last hour will take the String theory to realize the possiblilities of 11th dimensions, the impacts to our world, and the future of this 'Theory of everything'. If you still find difficulties to understand those concepts, don't worry, you will find lots of interactive education materials from the second DVD. There's an initeresting demo let you to build from 1 dimensional line to a 4-dimensional hypercube visually. I absolutely found those extra goodies were very helpful. The only picky thing I disliked was there're quite lengthy advertisings at the beginning of each episode. However, you can always skip it using fast forward. Honestly, this is a true FIVE STARS DVD. It's entertaining, it's simple, visual, excellent three hours programme. You and your kids will sure benefit from this amazing 'Theory of Elegant Universe' --- String.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
the un-elegant dvd,
By A Customer
This review is from: Nova--The Elegant Universe (DVD)
i can imagine what was said at the production meetings for this dvd... "let's make it fun" ... "yeah, even a little goofy, for the kids!". i have nothing against kids, but seems like this dvd was made for 7 year olds. it is horrible, the style of the narration is very annoying, made me feel like an idiot. what is even worse, it is very repetitive. in the first hour i heard countless times how this minute "strings of energy" were the great unifying theory, but they never explained why or how they arrived to this conclusion. it stays on the surface, never goes in deeper, i guess they were afraid to include too many numbers or symbols (mind you i am not a physicist, just a regular person). as if that wasn't enough, the 5 minutes of commercials at the beginning of each of the 5 episodes are unbearable, and there is no skiping them, this shoud be illegal, it is my dvd, why can't i skip the things i don't want to see?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Quite good, better than I first gave it credit for,
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This review is from: Nova--The Elegant Universe (DVD)
After watching part 1, I would have said that this documentary was extremely oversimplified; but that would have been an understatement because this DVD does cover a lot more ground than I initially would have given it credit for. In this program, scientists are trying to combine all the knowledge of physics into a universal theory that ties quantum mechanics with general relativity. The string theory is simply a concept that all matter is made up of exponentially tiny particles called 'strings'. These 'strings' vibrate almost like a musical instrument resonates at various harmonics to produce the different subatomic particles that make up our universe. It is a very interesting concept that has been proven mathematically yet remains unproven scientifically. I think it is only a matter of time until modern science catches up with theory and some very exciting discoveries will be uncovered.
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