Through the Wormhole

Have any of you been watching the Through the Wormhole series from the Science channel? It's been on for a while, and I watched the first few episodes when it began in 2010 but I haven't had television for the past few years, so I am re-watching the episodes I've seen, and will be watching the rest on DVD from Netflix.

Hosted by Morgan Freeman, the series uses string theory, quantum mechanics, astrophysics, and other scientific theories and discoveries to examine a variety of issues. It is a very interesting show, not like the propaganda that we normally see misrepresented as science.

Although much of it is over the head of an idiot like me, they do a pretty good job of presenting the information in a way that can be understood.

 

Very much so. Watching it on DVD, I can replay it as often as I want, and I do have to back it up sometimes when I realize that they have lost me. It is a highly interesting show, and it doesn't have so blatant of an agenda, as so many "science" shows are today.

 

One thing that I have learned (but long suspected) from Through the Wormhole is that lactose intolerance is the normal state of human beings, and that it is the ability to process milk as an adult that is an adaptation that has been made over several generations of people who, for whatever reason, decided to drink milk. In China, a large percentage of the population does not drink milk, and would be considered lactose intolerant. Of course, this doesn't mean that they are incapable of drinking milk, but that there are side effects from it.

That makes sense to me because it has always seemed strange to me, first of all, that adults would drink milk, since milk is generally only used for infants of any other species and, secondly, that we would drink milk from another species.

I just though it was interesting to find that what we think of as a disorder -- lactose intolerance -- is actually the natural state.

I grew up on a small farm. We had a cow, and I drank cow's milk. I am not lactose intolerant, but I don't like drinking milk. I do, however, eat other milk products such as cheese and butter.

 

I just did a search for it, and it is not on the Netflix streaming feature. It is on Amazon Prime movies; but you have to rent or buy it there (I didn't look to see which it was).
I don't think that we get a science channel on our regular television with Comcast; but I will look and see. If we do get it, then I can watch it on the iPad.
I really like Morgan Freeman, too, and this sounds like something that I would enjoy watching. I have never heard of it before; but then again, I usually do not watch television.

 

No, as I said in the opening post, I am watching them on DVD from Netflix. Since I am working while it is on, I back it up a lot and even replay some episodes altogether.

 

Despite the name, it's not all about wormholes. It's about all sorts of topics related to science and physics.

That's what I do. It's so much better than watching them one week at a time.