The Elegant Universe is on the Web

[jackwilliambell]

The Nova series The Elegant Universe is available online for free as a bunch of QuickTime or RealVideo streams. This show provides some great general-audience coverage of the current state of physics.

I wish this was in a format we could show on our television using our DSM. Anyone know an easy way to convert QuickTime streams to AVI files?

Comments

[scottscidmore]

http://www.jhepple.com/convert_apple_quicktime_to_avi.htm

[jackwilliambell]

Thanks for the link. I think I tried Bink before and couldn't get it to work, but maybe it has improved since then. Certainly I have installed better codecs on my system since.

[darkgeek]

Not so much physics as string theory and cosmology. There are vast chunks of physics of which Professor Greene knows absolutely nothing. Such is nature of that beast which enables us to get anything done in the 21st Century, specialization.

Nano- and bio-physics are more important anyways, simply from the potential to improve people's lives. Or at least pay off my student loans...

[darkgeek]

BTW, thanks for the link!

[jackwilliambell]

That's most of what this here bloggy thing is all about! Of course the rest of the reason it is here has to do with incoherent ranting...