This is a few weeks old, but I added the YouTube link at the bottom.
'Nova: Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives'
Mark Oliver Everett's father was a brilliant physicist but a cold parent. Mark tries to figure out why.
By ROBERT LLOYD, TELEVISION CRITIC
“Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives" is not your usual edition of "Nova," the PBS science anthology. The film, which airs tonight, follows rock musician Mark Oliver Everett -- better known as E, leader of Eels -- on a journey to discover the physicist father he never really knew and to understand something of his "Many Worlds Interpretation" of quantum mechanics -- at first, painfully ignored, but now taken quite seriously.
It might be called a biographical mystery. Filmed with animated sequences and visual conceits more familiar from rockumentaries and music videos, the story itself is like an episode of "This American Life." (In fact, it's been imported from the BBC.)
There is not all that much science in it, or just enough science to give you a sense of what strange and heady stuff Hugh Everett III was into. (There is some oddly elementary information in it as well: atoms, we learn, for example, are "microscopic particles that make up everything we see around us, from houses and guitars to rock musicians." Cute.) It is more a story of scientists, and how they are, as Mark Everett visits his father's old haunts and colleagues and meets his younger followers. But more than that, it's a story of coming to grips with history and oneself.
http://www.calendarlive.com/tv/cl-et-parallel21-2008oct21,0,6098058.storyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7BHFieatVE (Part 1 of 6)
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