Genius by Stephen Hawking - Floating plates - Pbs
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(mysterious music)
- [Woman] Wow.
- [Man In Blue] It's so weird.
- [Man In Red] Pretty spooky.
Romantic and haunting at the same time.
- [Man In Blue] What?
- [Man In Red] Spinning Plates.
- [Woman] Oh, my goodness. (laughs)
It was spooky. It was great.
- So cool. (laughs)
- It's magical.
- Perhaps the room is full of poltergeists.
- How are they levitating?
(mysterious music)
- No idea.
Slightly scary.
- [Man In Blue] If you had done
this some hundreds of years ago,
you would have been hung.
- And the first thing that crossed my mind
is where are the strings?
(blows air)
- What is the purpose of them floating?
- [Woman] It could be magic. (chuckles)
- [Man In Red] Could be magic, maybe it is.
- I'm not a believer. (laughing)
- Of course, I don't believe in magic either.
- Well let's see.
- But I do believe in human curiosity.
- Mine's not spinning, yours are.
- Yeah.
- I wonder why that is?
- Our desire to understand
has allowed us to achieve great things.
And finding out how things work is fun.
(laughs)
- In my mind looking at the plates floating,
it was about how are they floating
and more importantly, why are they floating?
