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The Story of Science – Can We Have Unlimited Power?
July 3rd, 2010 630 Views No Responses
We are the most power-hungry generation that has ever lived. This film tells the story of how that power has been harnessed – from wind, steam and from inside the atom. In the early years the drive for new sources of power was led by practical men who wanted to make money. Their inventions and ideas created fortunes and changed the course of history, but it took centuries for scienc...
The Universe: Beyond The Big Bang
April 15th, 2010 3660 Views One Response
Documentary that explores how mankind came to understand the Universe and its origins in the Big Bang. From the earliest people who looked up at the sky and wondered about its nature to modern physicists like Einstein, Gamow, Alpher And Guth. The universe began with a massive expansion, billions and billions of years ago, and it continues to expand with every passing second. ...
The Mystery of Empty Space
March 7th, 2010 5454 Views 6 Responses
Get ready to re-think your ideas of reality. Join UCSD physicist Kim Griest as he takes you on a fascinating excursion, addressing some of the massive efforts and tantalizing bits of evidence which suggest that what goes on in empty space determines the properties of the three-dimensional existence we know and love, and discusses how that reality may be but the wiggling of strings from o...
EP 4/4 Time – Cosmictime
September 25th, 2009 2625 Views No Responses
In this four-programme series, string theory pioneer Michio Kaku goes on an extraordinary exploration of the world in search of time.

He discovers our sense of time passing and the clocks that drive our bodies. He reveals the forces of time that make and destroy us in a lifetime.

He journeys to some of the Earth’s most spectacular geological ...

EP 3/4 Time – Earthtime
September 25th, 2009 2818 Views No Responses
In this four-programme series, string theory pioneer Michio Kaku goes on an extraordinary exploration of the world in search of time.

He discovers our sense of time passing and the clocks that drive our bodies. He reveals the forces of time that make and destroy us in a lifetime.

He journeys to some of the Earth’s most spectacular geological ...

EP 2/4 Time – Lifetime
September 25th, 2009 3671 Views No Responses
In this four-programme series, string theory pioneer Michio Kaku goes on an extraordinary exploration of the world in search of time.

He discovers our sense of time passing and the clocks that drive our bodies. He reveals the forces of time that make and destroy us in a lifetime.

He journeys to some of the Earth’s most spectacular geological ...

EP 1/4 Time – Daytime
September 25th, 2009 4719 Views No Responses
In this four-programme series, string theory pioneer Michio Kaku goes on an extraordinary exploration of the world in search of time.

He discovers our sense of time passing and the clocks that drive our bodies. He reveals the forces of time that make and destroy us in a lifetime.

He journeys to some of the Earth’s most spectacular geological ...

PT 3/3 Atom – The Illusion of Reality
August 20th, 2009 2102 Views No Responses
In this three-part documentary series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever: that the material world is made up of atoms. Al-Khalili discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, and finds out that empty space isn’t empty at all, but seething with activity.
PT 2/3 Atom – The Key to the Cosmos
August 20th, 2009 2385 Views No Responses
In this three-part documentary series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever: that the material world is made up of atoms. This episode tackles world-changing discoveries such as radioactivity, the Atom Bomb and the Big Bang, and tries to answer the biggest questions of all - why are we here and how were we made?
PT 1/3 Atom – Clash of The Titans
August 20th, 2009 3545 Views One Response
In this three-part documentary series, Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of one of the greatest scientific discoveries ever: that the material world is made up of atoms. Professor Al-Khalili takes us from the discovery of the atom to the development of quantum mechanics.
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