(If this sounds like an article submittion, it's because it was -- apparently, I got beaten to the punch by a minute or two.)
The NYT article makes this sound like a much bigger deal. This isn't a change during the first few seconds of the universe, this is over a sagan ("billions and billions of years") or ten.
Hm. The exact same things you see as points against the movie, I see as points for the movie. It is, indeed, probably inaccurate and uninformative in some respects. It wasn't designed for a classroom, but for a theatre, and is very good at it.
The movie very much limits its view of events to never include multiple scenes happening at the same internal time. It, with a couple of execptions, focuses on the events as seen by JFK, RFK, and Kenny. It does not include things not known by those three, for the most part, including in Cuba, the Kremlin, and the press, excepting the press' dealings with the Administration.
It doesn't include the meetings of the OAS because the three main characters weren't there, and didn't pay attention to the details of the meetings. It did include the three's reactions to the two letters from Kruschev, you are simply mistaken there. And the UN scenes are a circus. I think that's fairly accurate. Not because the UN in time of crisis isn't a serious thing, but because everybody was relived when the standoff in the chambers was resolved. And did you notice that the UN scenes with everybody laughing were in B&W? I didn't figure this out until this morning, but B&W represents the "good ol' days", with everything being OK.
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It sends a bit at a time, just like the name would suggest. It's a four-wire setup, and it includes power.
Also available is a New York Times article. The abstract of the paper is available for free; for the full article, pay or wait for the Aug 27th issue of Physical Review Letters.
(If this sounds like an article submittion, it's because it was -- apparently, I got beaten to the punch by a minute or two.)
The NYT article makes this sound like a much bigger deal. This isn't a change during the first few seconds of the universe, this is over a sagan ("billions and billions of years") or ten.
Hm. The exact same things you see as points against the movie, I see as points for the movie. It is, indeed, probably inaccurate and uninformative in some respects. It wasn't designed for a classroom, but for a theatre, and is very good at it.
The movie very much limits its view of events to never include multiple scenes happening at the same internal time. It, with a couple of execptions, focuses on the events as seen by JFK, RFK, and Kenny. It does not include things not known by those three, for the most part, including in Cuba, the Kremlin, and the press, excepting the press' dealings with the Administration.
It doesn't include the meetings of the OAS because the three main characters weren't there, and didn't pay attention to the details of the meetings. It did include the three's reactions to the two letters from Kruschev, you are simply mistaken there. And the UN scenes are a circus. I think that's fairly accurate. Not because the UN in time of crisis isn't a serious thing, but because everybody was relived when the standoff in the chambers was resolved. And did you notice that the UN scenes with everybody laughing were in B&W? I didn't figure this out until this morning, but B&W represents the "good ol' days", with everything being OK.