• bending starlight: free

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GREAT NEWS!

You can watch EINSTEIN AND EDDINGTON, the BBC/HBO film I wrote about in my previous post, below, FREE, online at VEOH.com. You will need to join the site (see note below in red.)  This true story fascinating and inspiring—even if you are not a Quaker astronomer from Cambridge University or a German physicist. I am neither and have watched the film twice in three days. Do not miss the last ten minutes as they "bend starlight."

IF you are a teacher, show it to every kid you can Duct tape to a chair for an hour and twenty-eight minutes. (Remember it was made by BBC so there are high collars and no car chases, but brief, non-nude sexuality.)

Clicking on the name of the film will take you to the VEOH.COM site. Take a couple minutes to create a FREE account (user name, email, etc.) Then find the film in the Drama category. It will come up in the "Physics of WWI" (World War I) collection. As the film begins, there are no credits, but men hauling crates of heavy equipment up a hill with pulleys. The graphics say "Principe, West Africa, 1919." You can save this film to your My Veoh file and watch it anytime. It is neither difficult nor complicated. I am NOT a tech-savy fellow and I got through it easily—you will, too. Onward!

Be sure to click the icon in the far right of the video tool bar, just below the image to watch it in full screen.

Please come back share your reactions with all of us in the Comments section, below. If you love it, post a link to this blog so others can read my posts and watch the film.

Comments

[Kim Ykema]

I want to watch the video and I've signed up for Veoh and the whole shabang but the only thing that comes up when I search is the trailer. Between this blog and the trailer, my appetite is whetted. See the drool?

[mcnair wilson]

Kim,
See my new addition to the instructions above in RED. Sorry for the confusion.

[Tina Parker]

This will need time to percolate. I am speechless with awe at the integrity in the search for truth at great personal cost, the willingness to subjugate desire for reality, and the steadfastness of Eddington's belief in God.

Thank you, McNair, for introducing this movie to me. I will need to purchase it because my friends are going to be hearing a lot about it.

[Kim Ykema]

McNair, I agree that teachers should show this film to their students. It feels a bit sluggish at the start but is able to present the complexities of a world gone mad as WW1 approached. Loved the scene of Albert being introduced to the industrialist who has provided his stipend; how often have you had conversations like that with engineers or administrators? When you think out of the box, you're bound to befuddle more than a few folks. Both Einstein and Eddington wouldn't allow status quo to stop them from being curious and finding a way to pursue it. Good show!