Floating and Sinking
A scientist battles to save his own life... by cracking the mystery of why some things float, and others don't.
Declan Fleming
Duration: 2:38
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Floating and SinkingMy battle against one of the least helpful words in science … ‘upthrust’.
Declan was one of the first people to email us when SciCast first started, more than a year ago, and it looks like he’s been somewhat bitten by the filming bug. This is an ambitious and professional film. It’s trying to cover a delicate bit of explanation and wrap the whole thing in a suitably ridiculous story, all in two and a half minutes.
In places it’s a little rushed, but it’d be churlish of me to rude of me to complain that it’s ‘too ambitious’! Besides, I like the film very much. It’s not just science that involves experiments — film-making does too, and Declan’s thrown himself into this and tried something radical.
Does it work? Tell us what you think in the comments.
— Jonathan.
I understand it!
Claire, 11 May 2008