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What is the best science (physics, math) documentary you've ever seen?
Pls an actually interesting and scientific one.
Mating Habits of the Earthbound Human
Manufacturing consent.
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come on /sci/, where's the real shit
>>6621289
Not the best I've seen but might be what you're looking for: Stephen Hawking's recent doc is on Netflix, but I forget what it's called. Gets pretty deep into string theory and such.
/tv/ is counting on you
>>6621440
I don't really respect stephen hawking
>>6621449
why?
Good will hunting
>>6621472
I don't respect people based off
physical inabilities
>>6621499
yeah he's really the lt. dan of science isn't he
>>6621499
Hm, you could respect him because he predicted the existence of black holes and some of their properties before they were observed for example.
Hm, I think documentaries are shitty concept. You can't do anything interesting for an audience with no backround information in 45 minutes and I have yet to see a documentary that doesn't start from scratch (because the audience would be too small I guess). Even if you are completely clueless, over the course of a small book of 80 pages you can get too some really interesting results. People doing tv-documentaries either need to cover a boring topic (wich they won't) or make a shitty documentary (wich they do). Think about it that way. (Were your first 3 lectures on any topic ever interesting? To be fair, our first lecture on algebraic topology covered a wide range of interesting topics and results, but our professor only made wild claims, drew pictures and proved nothing. It takes time to develope interesting things in a proper manner, if you want to see why it doesn't go any faster without becoming shit, watch a video of "numberphile" on youtube. HOLY FUCK! I watched 3 of them and every time I went pure rage mode.
>>6621515
suggestions of generally interesting introductory ~80 page books?
Muh Cosmos
>>6621289
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Probably the horizon one on infinity. I think it was just called Infinity
Not math/physics, but Frozen Addicts is a pretty good neuroscience documentary. In fact, it's traditionally shown to neuro students early in their studies. Unlike most documentaries, it actually goes pretty in-depth and doesn't try to appeal to idiots.
>>6621289
What are you referring to
>>6621289
Most bbc documentaries. American tv is shit. I only like a handful. Netflix is shit too, though Hawking's is decent. In general I like the philosophical ones and ones about famous mathematicians going insane.