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The Extraordinary Genius of Albert Einstein
The Theory of Special Relativity as part of the educational process: not for the sake of understanding the theory itself, but in using Einstein’s particular discovery as a case study to demonstrate and walk people through real human thinking.
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The Poetry of Science (discussion)
The Poetry of Science is a featured conversation between two of modern science’s greatest minds. Richard Dawkins; the famed evolutionist speaks to Neil deGrasse Tyson; astrophysicist and hots of the popular NOVA series. 1 hour 20 minutes. They discuss the poetry in science and why it is so important in your life.
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WIRED: Physics and Chemistry: Ball Busters
WIRED is famous for their magazine and website, sadly. They have also produced some fantastic documentaries. In Physics and Chemistry: Ball Busters, WIRED looks at how science is in America’s favorite pastimes. WIRED looks at baseball, cars, bar b q equipment, etc. This rare film is chock full of science and smart reporting.
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Welcome to Mars
Meet Spirit and Opportunity. They look like WALL-E. They are exploring Mars – something that people in 1969 thought we would have done by now in person. Welcome to Mars.
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The Hunt for Higgs
Horizon reveals how CERN is searching for the Higgs particle and why it is so significant.
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Beautiful Equations
Artist and writer Matt Collings looks for the beauty and elegance in the most famous scientific equations.
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The Fabric of the Cosmos
Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? From Brian Greene, one of the world’s leading physicists, comes a grand tour of the universe that makes us look at reality in a completely different way.
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Professor Brian Cox: A Night with the Stars
For one night only, Professor Brian Cox goes unplugged in a specially recorded programme from the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In his own inimitable style, Brian takes an audience of famous faces, scientists and members of the public on a journey through some of the most challenging concepts in physics.
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The Riddle of Antimatter
Explore one of the deepest mysteries about the origin of our universe.
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Faster Than The Speed of Light
In September 2011, an international group of scientists has made an astonishing claim – they have detected particles that seemed to travel faster than the speed of light. So what is going on? Has Einstein’s famous theory of relativity finally met its match? Will we one day be able to travel into the past or even into another universe?
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Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives
Documentary which tells the story of a rock star, Mark Oliver Everett, and a quantum mechanic – Hugh Everett III. Mark Oliver Everett, better known as E, is the lead singer of cult US band the Eels.
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Multiverse – Parallel Universes
In 1954, a young Princeton university doctoral candidate named Hugh Everett III came up with a radical idea: That there exist parallel universes, exactly like our universe. These universes are all related to ours; indeed, they branch off from ours, and our universe is branched off of others.
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