Einstein's Biggest Blunder
2000 · 50 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 74 VOTES · DIR. David Sington
Overview
Science Documentary hosted by Mathew Zajac and published by Channel 4 broadcasted as part of CH4 Equinox series in 2000 - English narration At the dawn of a new century, a new theory is being born. It threatens to demolish the foundations of 20th century physics. Its authors are two of the world's leading cosmologists. If they're right, Einstein was wrong. It all began when Andy Albrecht and Joao Magueijo met at a conference in America in 1996. This program began from Newtonian view of the universe then takes you through the General Relativity and the Flatness problem. This leads to the Horizon problem and its solution, the Inflation theory. However modern astronomy doesn't stop here, the Inflation theory has its flaw too, and what happened before the big bang? This can all be answered by changing one thing, the one thing no body dare to question until now.
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00:00:33 We did something which most people consider to be a bit of a heresy.
00:02:33 it flatly contradicts Einstein's theories of space and time.
00:04:27 Time was considered as an absolute concept
00:06:38 If we then waited six hours, the Earth would have turned
00:08:34 Light leaves the tram at the speed of light
00:10:48 In one year. And each one founds a field of physics.
00:12:57 In Einstein's model there is no such instantaneous action at a distance.
00:15:10 Relativity was a great success
00:17:18 To Einstein this extra term, lambda, the cosmological constant
00:19:24 This signal is powerful evidence that the Universe is not unchanging as Einstein imagined
00:21:13 to counterbalance gravity's tendency to make the Universe collapse and die.
00:23:01 that the Big Bang doesn't in fact solve the problem with the Universe's stability.
00:24:57 We're now at almost 15 billion years, we still don't know - is it coming back, is it flying off?
00:27:17 Bigger than we can imagine and bigger than we can see.
00:29:10 flies directly in the face of the idea of a single balancing process
00:31:32 the constancy of the speed of light
00:33:17 'Joao let's work on the varying speed of light too,'
00:35:19 As they explored this strange new world it began to dawn
00:37:07 Thus the Universe remained in balance for billions of years.
00:39:30 We're using a technique which enables us to look back into the past
00:41:07 because it would be the first ever indication that the laws of nature
00:43:32 They thought that these would allow them to chart the gentle deceleration of the Universe.
00:45:41 but the vacuum is not nothing, it's actually the cosmological constant
00:47:31 maybe the Universe is just this sequence of Big Bangs all the time.