Daily Archive: Abril 25, 2019
Horizon meets scientists working on the cutting edge of discovery - people who may discover how to build wormholes, manipulate entangled photons or build functioning time crystals
Time travel is not forbidden by the laws of nature, but to build a time machine, we would need to understand more about those laws and how to subvert them than we do now. And every day, science does learn more.
In this film Horizon meets the scientists working on the cutting edge of discovery – men and women who may discover how to build wormholes, manipulate entangled photons or build fully functioning time crystals. In short, these scientists may … Ler mais
Filme documentário que narra a história de seis cientistas brilhantes que procuram desvendar os mistérios do universo, documentando os sucessos e contratempos de uma das descobertas científicas mais importantes e inspiradoras do planeta
Imagine que era possível estar presente quando Edison ligou a primeira lâmpada, ou quando Benjamin Franklin recebeu o seu primeiro choque elétrico.
Pela primeira vez, um filme oferece ao público um lugar na primeira fila para assistir a um avanço científico significativo e inspirador à medida que ele acontece. A febre das partículas segue seis cientistas brilhantes durante o lançamento do Large Hadron Collider, marcando o início do maior e mais cara Experiência na história do planeta, empurrando as … Ler mais
Professor Simon Schaffer presents a documentary telling the story of automata, extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life
Documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer which charts the amazing and untold story of automata – extraordinary clockwork machines designed hundreds of years ago to mimic and recreate life.
The film brings the past to life in vivid detail as we see how and why these masterpieces were built. Travelling around Europe, Simon uncovers the history of these machines and shows us some of the most spectacular examples, from an entire working automaton city to a small boy who can … Ler mais
Powers of ten and the relative size of things in the Universe
Powers of Ten is one of the Eameses’ best-known films. Since it was produced in 1977, it has been seen by millions of people both nationally and internationally. As with A Communication Primer and 2n (a 2-minute Peep Show from the exhibition, Mathematica), in this film, Charles and Ray employed the system of exponential powers to visualize the importance of scale.
When the Eameses came across the 1957 book by Kees Boeke, Cosmic View: The Universe in Forty Jumps, … Ler mais
