BBC DRAMA ,EINSTEIN AN EDDINGTON

I watched a brilliant drama about the relationship between Albert einstein and sir arthur eddington around the time of the nineteen teens, the connection between Albert einstein and Sir Arthur eddington in the bbc film. Albert Einstein the most famous scientist of the 20th century, and i would say the most important in all of human history. So great is Einstein’s reputation that it makes that of Arthur Stanley Eddington — a good astronomer and a gifted popularizer of science — seem to pale into insignificance. Yet without Eddington’s 1919 eclipse expedition, which provided early proof of general relativity, Einstein’s discoveries might have stayed hidden for years before becoming known outside of the German scientific community, let alone the public/world.
Einstein and Eddington is about physicists, not physics.Although in the film they do attempt to explain special relativity in a scene using Einstein, his sons, a boat,as an example. and a handful of references to Einstein inventing new symbols,also in the film his first wife (and fellow physicist) Mileva who he is alleged to have neglected , played by Lucy Cohu.they also do the obligatory sheet-and-heavy-object explanation of general relativity using a table cloth an a loaf of bread, the film’s main focus is the parallel lives of the two during the First World War.
With Einstein and Eddington being both pacifists, This caused both of them great emotional difficulties, struggling to rise above the war’s horrible bitterness stand out as some of the films most effective scenes. At the outset of the war, Einstein refuses to sign a letter aligning German science with the German army. Eddington’s decision to correspond in secret with Einstein despite officially not being allowed, took guts.
Einstein and Eddington is a compelling sometimes emotional drama that although covering physics should appeal to non scientific types. Serkis,Tennant and supporting cast ensure the result is a rare drama that brings out the human side of physicists,but still pokes fun at the popular image of Einstein as a disheveled haired eccentric.All things said a brilliant drama.