This video really puts the whole Hubble stuff into perspective. It really blew my mind and I haven't quite looked at life the same after watching this video...
I guess you can say it humbled me! I strongly encourage you folks to watch it (has some good music too!).
Is there anywhere else this video can be seen? I'd like to see it, but China's been blocking all access to youtube for the last few months and I can't access it.
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"If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"
Is there anywhere else this video can be seen? I'd like to see it, but China's been blocking all access to youtube for the last few months and I can't access it.
Poor Ida was only 9 months old, she had a badly sprained wrist and had to come out of the trees, she may have died trying to drink water from the lake that she fell into.
For most of Mark Oliver Everett's life, things didn't add up. "Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives" follows Mark, better known as E, the lead singer of the rock band EELS, across the country as he attempts to understand the fantastic possibility of parallel universes and unravel the story of his troubled family and the father he never really knew—iconoclastic quantum physicist Hugh Everett III.
Scientific American described Hugh Everett as "one of the most important scientists of the 20th century." In 1957, he proposed the controversial Many Worlds Theory, a startling interpretation of quantum mechanics. The theory makes the astounding prediction that parallel universes are constantly splitting off from our everyday reality. For many years, Hugh Everett's mind-boggling theory was overlooked. Today, the concept of parallel universes is not only explored by many top physicists, but it also inspired many films, television series, and books, including The Golden Compass, Star Trek, and The Subtle Knife. (See Science Fiction and Fact for more on this parallel evolution of ideas.)
In this intelligent and imaginative film, the wry and charismatic Mark takes an emotional journey into his father's life, meeting Hugh's old college friends, colleagues, and admirers, including MIT physicist Max Tegmark, a vocal proponent of Hugh's ideas. It is only by entering the esoteric world of quantum physics that Mark can hope to gain an understanding of, and more importantly, a connection to the father who was a stranger to him.
"Go ahead and be excited by this find, I know I am. Just remember to be excited tomorrow and the day after and the day after that, because this is perfectly normal science, and it will go on."
