Eddington, the pacifist Quaker at a time of war, is played by David Tennant, known to millions (in the UK at least) as the time-travelling alien Doctor Who. Opening in 1913 as England is about to go to war with Germany, the protagonists are in England – the director of the Cambridge Observatory, a seat originally held by Newton – and in Germany – an obscure theorist whose general theory of relativity threatened two centuries of Newtonian certainty and the foundations of British science.Įinstein, the young genius, is played with lusty relish by Andy Serkis, known to millions as Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films. These events have now been dramatised in a BBC/HBO film, Einstein and Eddington. The world waited for the results: would Newton’s ordered universe be replaced by – as the English saw it – an Einsteinian madness that would require an entirely new philosophy? Gollum and the Doctor
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