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.
00:04:30 the time would be everywhere the same, independent of the state of motion of somebody.
00:06:49 then in another six hours this direction would be back but reversed.
00:08:40 and this speed never changes, no matter how fast the tram is going.
00:10:56 just how big a change he was making to the world when he wrote that down.
00:13:14 it doesn't know if those tracks are going to curve some distance in advance;
00:15:36 Einstein's approach was based on a daring assumption.
00:17:39 and so he added that constant in just the right amount
00:19:52 started looking at nearby stellar systems which we now call galaxies.
00:21:45 insisted on his cosmological constant to keep the Universe static
00:23:42 The Universe has been gently expanding for 15 billion years.
00:25:54 If we get one decimal place wrong the whole thing gets out of whack.
00:28:06 which means that the horizon is actually very large nowadays.
00:30:02 that exists in the early Universe and then disappears so we don't have it around today.
00:32:24 This came at the time when I was a fellow of this college
00:34:08 you wake up tired.
00:36:09 must be established perfectly, right from the beginning.
00:38:06 But what astronomers found there would astonish everyone.
00:40:21 or something like that, an awful long time ago.
00:42:33 so that even before he put matter into space-time, when we have vacuum
00:44:54 And the second thing we've found is that this cosmological constant itself
00:46:59 But the void is not nothing.
01:08:08 Albert Michelson and Edward Morley