Monthly Archive: Agosto 2012

Brian Greene revela um segredo: fomos todos enganados. Nossas percepções de tempo e espaço fizeram com que ficássemos desnorteados.

Muito do que acreditávamos saber sobre nosso universo pode estar errado. Esta série de quatro horas baseada no livro escrito pelo renomado físico e aclamado autor Brian Greene, vai levar-nos aos limites da física para ver como cientistas estão montando a maior imagem até agora do espaço, do tempo e do universo.

A cada passo, vamos descobrir que logo abaixo da … Ler mais

Marcus Du Sautoy wants to find out how close we are to creating machines that can think like us: robots or computers that have artificial intelligence.

His journey takes him to a strange and bizarre world where AI is now taking shape.

Marcus meets two robots who are developing their own private language, and attempts to communicate to them. He discovers how a super computer beat humans at one of the toughest quiz shows on the planet, Jeopardy. And finds … Ler mais

Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of our quest to master the power of electricity. Ler mais

Horizon goes behind the scenes at CERN to follow one of the most epic and expensive scientific quests of all time: the search for the Higgs particle, believed to give mass to everything in our universe.

However, the hunt for Higgs is part of a much grander search for how the universe works. It promises to help answer questions like why we exist and is a vital part of a Grand Unified Theory of nature. At the heart of the … Ler mais