Comments on: Tales From The Industry XXVII – Light Speed

By: Tales From The Industry XXXII: A Matter of Time at Asymptotia

Tales From The Industry XXXII: A Matter of Time at Asymptotia — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:50:32 +0000

[...] relatively unusual behaviour for science on screen.) I worked with him on the excellent and popular Light Speed Episode some years back, and we did some fun things together to illustrate the science. So I am [...]

By: Thor

Thor — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:20:09 +0000

Enjoyed the show quite a bit. Was afraid it might turn out like the one on parallel universes a few days ago. But it was really good. Congrats!

By: Sara Tompson

Sara Tompson — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:31:13 +0000

Clifford! Kevin and I are now recording “The Universe” and enjoyed it, getting an especial kick out of your faster than light bike ride! The illustration of your tennis ball throw’s progress vs. the headlight beam was very well done, graspable.
We do think there’re almost too many FX in the show, especially the “whooosh” sounds, but probably holds the interest of younger more gaming people than us.
I like the SoCal (well, NorCal too) focus of the scientist commentators.
All for now, basically wanted to say how the bike ride was so you and also a great physics illustration! (Plus your direct into the camera commentary was nicely done as well.)

By: Belizean

Belizean — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:46:37 +0000

[blockquote]Sadly, nobody in the science community will pay much attention to this film because there’s no controversy. [/blockquote]

I’m sorry that I didn’t catch it. [It's amazing how quickly nearly 100% of any TV watching I do has switched to on-demand streaming downloads.]

Any, it doesn’t have to be controversial to receive attention as a useful educational tool. If it’s really well done, you will be immortalized in countless basic physics classes yet convened, as lazy or unprepared professors use the DVD of this episode as an emergency back-up.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:47:47 +0000

Wow. Only 15 minutes left to go and (except for a few inaccuracies that I’m not worried about) I have to say that Darryl and his team have really nailed it. This is a very good survey of the physics of the speed of light, nicely done in all aspects. Some of the key physics that I discussed with Darryl (and this and other physics that I’m sure that the other contributors discussed with him too) has been carefully brought out and nicely illustrated. This is a great example of the *collaborative* mode I’ve been talking about… partnership between the scientists and the filmmakers to get a really nice show.

Guess what? Sadly, nobody in the science community will pay much attention to this film because there’s no controversy. Little to complain or get all upset about. Pity. If we want to see more good products, we need to let the filmmakers know when they get it right at least as often (probably more) as when they don’t.

-cvj

By: Clifford

Clifford — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:17:47 +0000

Well, first ad break and I’m really impressed. So far they’ve done a great survey of what it means to have a finite speed of light, and how when you get to astronomical scales, its remarkable speed seems quite slow. Then they’ve gone from that to how it tells the history of the universe… how it gives us a time machine to probe the origins of the universe….. all good. Very good indeed. I’m really quite pleased with this so far…. Highly recommendable. So far.

-cvj