Science is interesting

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Here you will find a collection of the best scientific documentaries available online. Focus here is on quality above quantity. There is an endless heap of documentaries that are "scientific" but in fact are not, instead filled with metaphysical ideas, UFOs, bio energies and other meta-sciences. You will not find those here. Other thing is the quantity of information in every documentary itself, often being very low but instead full of special effects and dramatic monologue. Hopefully you won't find those here either.

What you will find are informative, revealing, interesting, mind-boggling and above all scientific documentaries about the marvels of the world surrounding us, or the marvels of human ingenuity.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Dimensions

Here is a documentary about mathematical dimensions, or more correctly about spatial dimensions. In our daily lives we are, of course, aware of only 3 dimensions. This film deals in the mathematics of proving and displaying the objects and geometry of higher dimensions.
It starts of very elementary, with the explanation of the 2-dimensional space with meridians and parallels and then gets to more complicated stuff in the 4-dimensional space. There is also a chapter about complex numbers after that and a proof of a theorem of geometry. Usually I post the videos directly on the main page but the number of episodes here would put too much stress on it so please follow the link to watch it.

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