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A miserable schlockfest that disgraces the memories of both men


I am a physicist who specializes in relativity. I know the bios and work of both of these men like my hand. This is nothing but horrid Brit revisionist history, performed out of frustration with their late national scientific mediocrity. The story itself was plenty dramatic without the absurd over-the-top Brad Pittian over-emotional "actage". And we hear nothing of Hermann Weyl, Hilbert, Poincare, the scientific milieu of that time, nothing in short having anything to do with science - it's all just another wretched soap opera, full of errors, empty of content.

God I am getting to where I despise the British.

-drl

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I forgot to mention the most wretched seconds of this awful embarrassment - the miserable production crew - whatever you want to call these people - can't even make a simple, more or less accurate representation of a simple solar eclipse - something even the Babylonians would have understood - and this purports to be some sort of homage to relativity? Oh blast these British mediocrities! What a fall was there - the nation of Newton - laid so low by their late national mentality of aspiring to nothing but soap opera and tabloid history!

-drl

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Don't listen to this self-hating, miserable "antimatter33."

This was an incredible film. While it did not explain every single event in the proof of Einstein's theory, doing so would lose 99.9999/100ths of the audience, and it would take days to explain.

This idiot, antimatter33 should be re-named, "doesntmatter86".

To try and be accurate, they even threw-in that several of the photo plates were unsatisfactory, that Max Planck worked on shell trajectories for the German army, and other truthful points, including Fritz Haber's work on poison gas.

While this jerk didn't like it, it was tremendously enjoyable, mostly accurate, but not 100% complete, as none of these docudramas are. But they did get the large points correct.

doesntmatter86 should never see another docudrama again, let alone try and convince with his true/false/who cares bona fides with his ridiculous comments.

This moron would want a docudrama on Teddy Roosevelt to include every time he passed gas.

I, a student of these men, truly enjoyed this movie. The acting was first rate. Plus, it edified a large audience who probably never knew of this story.

Oh, and I viewed the eclipse of 1991. I thought the film's portrayal of this was right-on! I just think doesntmatter86 has some great axe to grind about the UK. Probably didn't get accepted to Cambridge.


(looking forward to more of his b.s.)

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The personalities enacted were not those of either Einstein or Eddington - and of course it would be stupid to try to explain the details of the theory in such a presentation - but for comparison there is a film "Infinity" about Feynman, which gets it right without some silly soap-operatic plot, and without boring (?) the watcher with the details of the Bomb or with Feynman's later work. Most of all, there was no real science - after all, this is a show about scientists, not method acting.

So you may think this is a fine drama, and it may be on some level, but it has nothing to do with what really happened nor does it portray the principles at all correctly.

-drl

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I stand by my recommendation of this wonderful film.

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"Oh, and I viewed the eclipse of 1991. I thought the film's portrayal of this was right-on!"

i'm no expert, but i'm pretty sure the moon doesn't race in front of the sun, sit there for a few mintures, and then rush off. in fact, i'm pretty sure stop-and-start movements are things the moon doesn't do at any point.

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