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Wonders of the Universe episode 4

Science / 13 minutes of reading / May 22, 2023 / By HDclump

Wonders of the Universe episode 4: In the last episode of Professor Brian Cox’s epic journey across the universe, he travels from the fossils of the Burgess Shale to the sands of the oldest desert in the world to show how light holds the key to our understanding of the whole universe, including our own deepest origins. To understand how light holds the key to the story of the universe, you first have to understand its peculiar properties. Brian considers how the properties of light that lend colour to desert sands and the spectrum of a rainbow can […]

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Wonders of the Universe episode 3

Science / 8 minutes of reading / May 16, 2023 / By HDclump

Wonders of the Universe episode 3: In the third episode, Professor Brian Cox delves into the captivating narrative of gravity, the force responsible for shaping the vast expanse of the universe. Gravity, despite its seemingly familiar nature, remains one of the most enigmatic and awe-inspiring forces known to humankind. Embarking on a zero-gravity flight, Brian immerses himself in the sensation of weightlessness, contemplating the profound impact gravity has exerted on our surrounding world. However, the reach of gravity extends far beyond our immediate surroundings. It serves as the grand conductor of the cosmos, governing our orbital path around

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Wonders of the Universe episode 2

Science / 6 minutes of reading / May 12, 2023 / By HDclump

Wonders of the Universe episode 2: In this episode, he seeks to answer the biggest questions of all – what are we and where do we come from? In the second stop in his exploration of the wonders of the universe, Professor Brian Cox goes in search of humanity’s very essence to answer the biggest questions of all: what are we? And where do we come from? This film is the story of matter – the stuff of which we are all made. Brian reveals how our origins are entwined with the life cycle of the stars. But

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Wonders of the Universe

Science / 6 minutes of reading / May 10, 2023 / By HDclump

Wonders of the Universe: In this episode, Brian looks at the nature of time and its role in creating both the universe and ourselves. Having explored the wonders of the solar system, Professor Brian Cox steps boldly on to an even bigger stage – the universe. Who are we? Where do we come from? For thousands of years humanity has turned to religion and myth for answers to these enduring questions. But in this series, Brian presents a different set of answers – answers provided by science. From an extraordinary calendar built into the landscape of Peru to

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The Beginning and End of the Universe episode 2

Science / 4 minutes of reading / January 28, 2023 / By HDclump

The Beginning and End of the Universe episode 2: Professor Jim Al-Khalili carries us into the distant future to try to discover how the universe will end – with a bang or a whimper? He reveals a universe far stranger than anyone imagined and, at the frontier of our understanding, encounters a mysterious and enigmatic force that promises to change physics forever. Prof Jim Al-Khalili tackles the biggest subject of all, the universe, through a series of critical observations and experiments that revolutionised our understanding of our world. The Beginning and End of the Universe episode 2

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The Beginning and End of the Universe episode 1

Science / 4 minutes of reading / January 27, 2023 / By HDclump

The Beginning and End of the Universe episode 1: Professor Jim Al-Khalili takes us back in time to tackle the greatest question in science: how did the universe begin? Uncovering the origins of the universe is regarded as humankind’s greatest intellectual achievement. By recreating key experiments Jim unravels the cosmic mystery of science’s creation story before witnessing a moment, one millionth of a second, after the universe sprang into existence. Prof Jim Al-Khalili tackles the biggest subject of all, the universe, through a series of critical observations and experiments that revolutionised our understanding of our world.

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Universe – The Big Bang: Before the Dawn episode 5

Science / 4 minutes of reading / November 7, 2021 / By HDclump

Universe – The Big Bang: Before the Dawn episode 5: It’s the ultimate question: why are we here? Cutting-edge space missions take us back 13.8 billion years to the very beginning – the origin of the Universe. Professor Brian Cox asks the ultimate question: how did the Universe come to be? The Universe is daunting in its scale. We live on one planet of eight that orbit just one of the four hundred billion stars in our galaxy. But our galaxy is just one of trillions in the universe. Yet it is amongst those galaxies that we have

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Universe – Black Holes: Heart of Darkness episode 4

Science / 4 minutes of reading / November 4, 2021 / By HDclump

Universe – Black Holes: Heart of Darkness episode 4: Prof Brian Cox journeys into a supermassive black hole – a monster that can destroy worlds, stop time, and is forcing us to reassess our understanding of reality. Professor Brian Cox continues his epic exploration of the universe with a journey into darkness. The centre of our galaxy is home to an invisible monster of unimaginable power – a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A*. Weighing 4 million times the mass of the Sun, it’s an object with such an immense gravitational field that nothing can escape – not

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Universe – The Milky Way: Island of Light episode 3

Science / 4 minutes of reading / November 2, 2021 / By HDclump

Universe – The Milky Way: Island of Light episode 3: Professor Brian Cox continues his epic exploration of the cosmos by exploring the faint band of light that sweeps across the night sky – our own galaxy, the Milky Way. The Sun is just one of almost 400 billion stars that form this vast, majestic disk of light, our own home in the universe. We’ve longed to understand our galaxy’s secrets since the time of the ancient Greeks, yet it’s only very recently, thanks to a cutting edge space telescope, that we’re finally able to reveal the Milky Way’s dramatic

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Universe – Alien Worlds: The Search for Second Earth episode 2

Science / 5 minutes of reading / November 1, 2021 / By HDclump

Universe – Alien Worlds: The Search for Second Earth episode 2: Humans have long gazed up at the night sky, wondering whether other lifeforms and intelligences could be thriving on worlds far beyond our own. Answering that question seemed fated to remain pure speculation. But over the last few decades, ultra-sensitive telescopes and dogged detective work have transformed alien planet-hunting from science fiction into hard fact. Gone are the days of speculation; the hunt for extraterrestrials has become a matter of serious scientific inquiry. As the hunt for alien worlds began, we expected to find worlds similar to

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Universe – The Sun: God Star episode 1

Science / 5 minutes of reading / October 28, 2021 / By HDclump

Universe – The Sun: God Star episode 1: Professor Brian Cox begins his epic exploration of the cosmos with a hymn to the great luminous bodies that bring light and warmth to the universe: the stars. It is estimated that there are two hundred trillion stars in the universe, each playing their part in an epic story of creation – a great saga that stretches from the dawn of time, with the arrival of the first star, through diverse generations until the arrival of our own star, the sun, and a civilisation that has grown up in its

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How Small Is the Universe ?

Science / 2 minutes of reading / August 28, 2019 / By HDclump

How Small Is the Universe: plunges down the biggest rabbit-hole in history in search of the smallest thing in the universe. It is a journey where things don’t just become smaller but also a whole lot weirder. Scientists hope to catch a glimpse of miniature black holes, multiple dimensions and even parallel universes. As they start to explore this wonderland, where nothing is quite what it seems, they may have to rewrite the fundamental laws of time and space. How Small Is the Universe ? Micro black hole Micro black holes, also called quantum mechanical black

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