Comedy
Documentary
Kids

Bill Nye the Science Guy

It's "Mr. Wizard" for a different decade. Bill Nye is the Science Guy, a host who's hooked on experimenting and explaining. Picking one topic per show (like the human heart or electricity), Nye gets creative with teaching kids and adults alike the nuances of science.

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Created By

Bill Nye

Status

Ended

Original Name

Bill Nye the Science Guy

First Air Date

September 10, 1993

Last Air Date

June 20, 1998

Seasons

5

Episodes

100

Language

English

Networks

PBS

Motion
S05E20

Motion

Things can appear to be moving, when they really aren’t. Sometimes an object might seem to be at rest, even when it is in motion. It’s all relative. Relative motion, that is. How things appear to move depends on how you, or any observer, happens to be moving. So, if you’re on a bus looking out a window into another bus, and your bus begins to back up slowly, you may think the other bus is moving forward, when really it’s not moving at all. That’s motion in motion. It happens all around us all the time.

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