Monthly Archive: Abril 2015
Time, Distance, Mass, Moles, Heat, Light and Electricity
Professor Marcus du Sautoy explores why we are driven to measure and quantify the world around us and why we have reduced the universe to just a handful of fundamental units of measurement.
- Time and distance
Professor Marcus du Sautoy tells the story of the metre and the second – how an astonishing journey across revolutionary France gave birth to the metre, and how scientists today are continuing to redefine the measurement of time and length, with extraordinary results.
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Artist and writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equations
Artist and writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equations. He asks top scientists to help him understand five of the most famous equations in science, talks to Stephen Hawking about his equation for black holes and comes face to face with a particle of anti-matter.
Along the way he discovers why Newton was right about those falling apples and how to make sense of E=mc2. As he gets to grips with these equations he wonders … Ler mais
The Challenger disaster
When the space shuttle Challenger blew up in 1986, it was the most shocking event in the history of American spaceflight. The deaths of seven astronauts, including the first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe, were watched live on television by millions of viewers. But what was more shocking was that the cause of the disaster might never be uncovered.
The Challenger is the story of how Richard Feynman, one of America’s most famous scientists, helped to discover the cause … Ler mais
This is the story of the most captivating communicator in the history of science
Richard Feynman is one of the most iconic, influential and inspiring scientists of the 20th century.
He helped design the atomic bomb, solved the mystery of the Challenger Shuttle catastrophe and won a Nobel Prize.
Now, 25 years after his death – in his own words and those of his friends and family – this is the story of the most captivating communicator in the history of science.
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