The Great Year
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Movie Reviews of The Great Year
Movie Review: Absolute rubbish in the service of Mammon
Summary: 1 Stars
This program mixes a number of interesting historical facts with absolute rubbish based on dubious theories, past and present. It makes absolutely no effort to distinguish between what is known to be true, and what might or might not be true. Instead, it relies on the all too human desire to believe in the unbelievable, simply because it is more fascinating than what we already know to be true, and uses that desire to promote a theory to which no reputable scientist gives even the smallest iota of credence.Most specifically, the program resurrects a completely discredited theory that there is a binary companion to the Sun which is in some way responsible for a portion of the precession of the Earth's axis of rotation. THIS SUPPOSED COMPANION ABSOLUTELY CANNOT EXIST! The gravitational effects which cause our precession are an almost infinitesimally small portion of the overall effect of gravity, and if a binary companion to the Sun had enough of an effect on us to be in any way measurable, it would have far greater effects on the orbital motions of the planets -- effects which are NOT observed, and the lack of which absolutely proves the falsity of this theory. The only reality to this theory is that well-meaning people are deluded into wasting their time and money watching and buying this trash; which is, after all, all that the producers of such programs care about, in the first place.