Tonight BBC2: The Wonders of the Universe

[Rum]

The young prof does it again!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zf9dh

[Geoff]

Cheers Rum - I'd forgotten to set the timer for that!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've been watching this over here. Pretty cool. Too bad you didn't get him to the Manchester meet.

[borealis]

Can that be watched via internet? I'm don't think that bbc is showing here, but I haven't checked.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Can that be watched via internet? I'm don't think that bbc is showing here, but I haven't checked.

BBC Iplayer has it. Can't watch it here, I think.

[Rum]

Well I have just finished watching this, in my view., extra-ordinary programme. I am not sure I have seen its like in terms of offering deep science in a popular form to the public.

The whole thing was based around the second law of thermodynamics (entropy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law ... modynamics) and the fact that the universe and time itself is structured deeply around order moving to disorder. It was brilliantly done and possibly the best TV science prog I have ever seen.

View it any way you can. Brilliant!

[stripes4]

I watched it too. I loved his coat!! lol

[Rum]

I watched it too. I loved his coat!! lol

Please.

[Atheist-Lite]

Subversive twit putting a British flag on a sandcastle and then waffling on about it disintegrating. That's his OBE gone with the wind.

[Feck]

I watched it too. I loved his coat!! lol

It seems he has a knack for turning women on , to physics .

[stripes4]

I thought it was good, for pop science. Obviously I prefer to go into the issues touched on, at a deeper level. His shoes were nice too

[Rum]

I thought it was good, for pop science. Obviously I prefer to go into the issues touched on, at a deeper level. His shoes were nice too

Can I touch on your tits please?

[stripes4]

I thought it was good, for pop science. Obviously I prefer to go into the issues touched on, at a deeper level. His shoes were nice too

Can I touch on your tits please?

well I suppose that seeing as the universe is carrying on for another trillion trillion trillion years, and we're infitessimally tiny specks of dust that don't matter, it would be churlish to say no.

[Rum]

I thought it was good, for pop science. Obviously I prefer to go into the issues touched on, at a deeper level. His shoes were nice too

Can I touch on your tits please?

Well I suppose that seeing as the universe is carrying on for another trillion trillion trillion years, and we're infitessimally tiny specks of dust that don't matter, it would be churlish to say no.

OK and thanks. Please note that I will be doing so in a dispassionate astrophysics kind of way, very much with the eventual fate of the universe ..oh - and my todger..in mind.

[HomerJay]

Let one of the boys stay up to watch it, he has no school tomorrow, he has read Stephen Hawking's children books on physics and like it a lot. Now I have to answer allsorts of questions about entropy. First one, "He still hasn't said what (the second law) is - what is it?'.

From my point if view, I found itr hard to follow, to drawn out and pointless imagery, like sitting around that camp fire?

If you wrote it down you could read the transscript in ten minutes.