Documentaries on cosmology are not for complete dummies

Question

IT education

Hello Khabravchan!

Has anyone heard of the existence of good documentaries at a level higher than philistine pop science, but lower than university lectures? Agree, it’s annoying to see how 60% of the screen time we are forced to admire, albeit colorful, models of some objects, and another 20% tirelessly repeat the same thought, it’s good if in different words. I would like to show people who want to learn something more interesting. They knew how to shoot a documentary in the USSR, in physics, say, about gyroscopes or the interaction of elementary particles : what it is, how it works, a couple of formulas and a bunch of demonstration examples. Or the basics of quantum mechanics: I think many saw an almost ingenious " Physics at half past nine"1971. Yes, everything was, even about the construction of locomotives.

So I want something similar about the current state of affairs in physics and cosmology: the standard model, SRT and GR, quantum mech, QFT and QED are the same, black holes, some kind of pulsars, neutron stars, albeit the same strings and supersymmetry, entropy, inflation, the arrow of time, it would be very cool about dark matter, etc. To explain what it is, what is the meaning, how it was discovered, what it gives, and stuff like that. not a very good film: "Elegant Universe", precisely because of "like for children" - you don’t want it for children, you want it for adults. An example of good ones: the PostNauka video cycle, for example, here , but there the format is a bit different.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Here Sir Penrose tells a wonderful story, although it can be hard for a non-specialist.

Answer 2

I liked the Discovery cycle "How the Universe Works"

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Answer 4

If anyone noticed (from those who understand Einstein), European physicists of the first magnitude do not understand general relativity, they never learned at the institute that all relativistic effects have nothing to do with speed. In general, as a genius, I report to mankind that general relativity abolishes the concept of speed and postulates acceleration as the only value that makes sense