Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking

Starring: Steven Hawking and Benedict Cumberbatch

Product Description

Stephen Hawking's Universe is an epic new kind of cosmology series, a Planet Earth of the heavens. Over eight, spell-binding hours, an animated Stephen In Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking, the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 018713578877
• Release Date: January 2011
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: Gaiam Americas
• Directors: Hawking, Stephen, Various
• Starring: Steven Hawking, Benedict Cumberbatch
• Runtime: 3 hours
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Anamorphic; NTSC; Widescreen
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 5.4"

Customer Reviews

Three episodes from 2010.

Newer than my school days, but now getting a tad long in the tooth. Still covers many things that one might have missed. Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 – E1 Aliens We get a Stephen Hawking view of aliens. It makes me think of Carl Sagan on alien abduction and Cosmos, who said making love to an alien is like making love to a petunia. We begin with an overview of large numbers. There are many psychedelic graphics to watch while listening to a narration about big galaxies and speculating on alien environments. There is an annoying English narrator instead of a good California neutral accent. It drives me up the wall because the narrator cannot pronounce 'evolution'. We are presented with a comparison and contrast of Star Wars and Star Trek. Speculation ranges from spontaneous ideas to asteroid-based theories. Just add water. Now, venturing into the vastness beyond our solar system. He prefers to talk about the observatory in Hawaii. I prefer the one in Griffith Park because I know it. And once again, we are heading into space. Space is alive. We get speculation on the chemistry of life. The average male holds about 6 gallons of water. This implies that the average female cannot hold water. Stephen Hawking prefers a classic abduction story, about someone lost alone in the darkness at night. I prefer “I Married a Monster from Outer Space” (1958). Again, Carl Sagan preferred petunias. It seems we just have to wait and see when they arrive. Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 – E2 Time travel Free to explore the universe and ask big questions, such as, Is time travel possible? Can we open a portal to the past? Or find a shortcut to the future? We start with an overview of large numbers. There are plenty of psychedelic graphics to look at while listening to a narration about the nature of time as seen by Stephen Hawking. There is an annoying English speech impediment, instead of a clear California neutral accent. So, several words will be mispronounced. We need to view time the way physicists do — as the fourth dimension. It almost sounds provocative as he describes tiny wormholes and their properties. Oh, the space/time kind of wormhole. We are treated to visions of tiny crevasses, wrinkles, and voids. Oh my! We learn why we should not feed the wormhole. Now we explore GPS and its role in time differences. You might want to take a break now, as the concepts move faster. There may be some fillers. Revisit black holes and light speed. Lots of “Ifs.” Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) S1 - E3 The Story of Everything Free to explore the universe. We begin with an overview of large numbers. There are lots of psychedelic graphics to watch while traveling from the big bang to life, and then to the end of time (or forever). We also get a quick look at dark energy. There is an annoying English speech impediment, instead of a clear California neutral accent. We have a Newtonian version of gravity or non-relativistic classical mechanics that treats time as a universal measurement, which is consistent everywhere and separate from space. This contrasts with Einstein's general theory of relativity, where spacetime is curved by mass and energy. The spacetime of special relativity is now known as “Minkowski spacetime.” As some sort of joke, we understand how the end of the world will impact the J-a-p-a-n-e-s-e stock market.