Re: Individual Involved with Cassini Press and Science Reporting

["Michael C. Baker" <mcbaker@lanl.gov>]

Although I share your opinion of Kaku, you must keep in mind that 
the 2 hour program attempted to cover an enormous amount of material.
It was disappointing that the only significant development mentioned
from the 40s was the bomb, but they were covering a century of material
and whether we like it or not this was the most significant physics
related development from that time period.

I thought the section of the program on physics developments from 
Einstein's theories through the development of quantum mechanics 
was rather well done.  (Even if they did use Kaku as a source.)

Michael Baker ... mcbaker@lanl.gov

>
>He was in the segment on Einstein, but was also in the segment
>on nuclear.  It is interesting to note that the only nuclear
>segment was the development of the bomb.  It was, in my view,
>a purely negative view of that part of Science with no mitigating
>statement or even significant reference to power production or
>tracer technology.
>
>There was also a segment on particle accelerators, where Kaku
>again seemed to be a resource for this program.  Although
>that section was much more interesting in its scope, there could
>have been more time given to Weinberg or Lederman...
>
>This was an excellent opportunity to examine the benefits of
>radiation for society but which was effectively absent from the
>presentation (and only superficially alluded to in part 1 which
>was on medicine and biotechnology).
>
>Still, this series is well worth the time compared to most other
>media presentations on television!
>
>Ciao,
>
>MikeG.
>