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Overall, this is an excellent documentary on the founding of the nation of Israel, and it's struggles with asserting it's independence while also trying to build a beacon of hope and safety for the millions of Jews around the world.
This series is narrated by the estimable Abba Eban, Isreali ambassador to both the US and UN, and Foreign Minister of Israel. Eban often provides first-hand knowledge of Israeli history, and insight into Israeli foreign policy. From an historical standpoint, this film is invaluable to those seeking to understand the Israeli experience within the framework of Middle East politics.
The only issue I raise with this series is that there is virtually no Arab view presented. Towards the end of the series, there are interviews with a number of Arab people, but their voice is largely excluded from this account.
I raise this because this is such a huge political issue, and people are so divided. This documentary does not attempt to tell all sides of the conflict. This is an account of what Israel has gone through from the 1940s until the mid-1990s.
In general, though, this film doesn't judge either side. Eban acknowledges the faults of both sides, but doesn't precisely favor Israel. He simply accounts for the policies and actions of the world's only Jewish state.
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Anyone who missed this Speilberg film made 24 years ago MUST see this film which is much more relevant now than it was then. - JW
David, an artificial kid which is the first to have real feelings, especially a never-ending love for his "mother", Monica. Monica is the woman who adopted him as a substitute for her real son, who remains in cryo-stasis, stricken by an incurable disease. David is living happily with Monica and her husband, but when their real son returns home after a cure is discovered, his life changes dramatically.
10/10
Can't re-watch it again
I was 13-14 when I watched this movie. It's a long movie if I recall it correctly. I was so moved by it's theme, so I watched it all. I had strong feelings of sadness and sympathy towards little robot David that wanted to be a real child and to have a mom to love him. And that little bear ... I cried during some scenes. I don't ...
The Mass of Nows:
A Temporal Foundation for Inertia and Gravity
Joseph Wouk
January 6, 2026
Checked by Ara (Grok 4, xAI)
For a century, physics has lived with a quiet asymmetry. Special relativity shattered absolute simultaneity, forcing us to accept that "now" is observer-dependent—an infinite stack of "now-slices" foliating the four-dimensional block universe.
Yet when we turned to dynamics, to the origin of mass and force, we continued to treat space and time as a smooth, empty stage on which particles play. Inertia and gravity were described with exquisite mathematics, but their common cause remained mysterious. The equivalence principle told us they feel the same, but never why they are the same.
The Mass of Nows proposes a simple, radical answer: the stage is not empty. Between the infinite now-slices lies a dense plenum—the zero-point fields of every possible now, permeated by the four-dimensional extent of every particle's wave function.
Mass is not a property particles possess; it is the ...
