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Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein

“A cerebral spectacle that delves into Einstein’s theories, with a theatrical twist.” - New York Times

Take a theatrical journey with physicist Brian Greene to uncover how Albert Einstein developed his theory of relativity. In this vivid play, science is illuminated on stage and screen through innovative projections and an original score.

Brian Greene and an ensemble cast perform this theatrical work tracing Albert Einstein’s electrifying journey toward one of the most beautiful ideas ever conceived – the General Theory of Relativity. With state-of-the-art animation and innovative projection techniques, Light Falls illuminates Einstein’s breakthrough moments, … Ler mais

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Living in a Parallel Universe

Parallel universes have haunted science fiction for decades, but a surprising number of top scientists believe they are real

In many cases, reality is weirder than any science fiction fantasy. Parallel universes have haunted novels and movies for decades and at the beginning of the 21st century in the labs and minds of theoretical physicists, parallel universes are being seriously explored as never before. Long since scientists believe that there is far more to the cosmos than we can currently detect. Particularly, quantum mechanics has made it very hard for them to ignore the idea of parallel universes.

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Horizon: Parallel Universes

The documentary has to do with parallel universes, string theory, M theory, supergravity, and other theoretical physics concepts

Everything you’re about to read here seems impossible and insane, beyond science fiction. Yet it’s all true.

Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe – in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form. Astonishingly, scientists believe that these parallel universes … Ler mais

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Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives

Documentary which follows the singer of US rock band Eels, Mark Everett, as he travels across America to learn about the father he never knew, quantum physicist Hugh Everett III

Documentary which tells the story of a rock star and a quantum mechanic. Mark Oliver Everett, better known as E, is the lead singer of cult US band the Eels. What most of his fans don’t know is that Mark’s father, Hugh Everett III, was one of America’s top quantum physicists. In 1957, Hugh Everett came up with a revolutionary theory that predicts the existence of parallel universes. The idea quickly seeped into popular culture but only … Ler mais

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Vídeo / Ciência e Tecnologia

The Mechanical Universe

“The Mechanical Universe” is a critically-acclaimed series of 52 thirty-minute videos covering the basic topics of an introductory university physics course

Introduction

The Mechanical Universe…and Beyond is a critically-acclaimed series of 52 thirty-minute videotape programs covering the basic topics of an introductory university physics course. The series was originally produced as a broadcast telecourse by the California Institute of Technology and Intelecom, Inc. with program funding from the Annenberg/CPB Project.

Each program in the series opens and closes with Caltech Professor David Goodstein providing philosophical, historical and often humorous insight into the subject at hand while lecturing to … Ler mais

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Mechanical Monsters

Simon Schaffer reveals the engineering wonders of the 19th century: computers made out of cogs, giant replica dinosaurs, huge telescopes and devices heralding the birth of cinema

Simon Schaffer tells the stories behind some of the most extraordinary engineering wonders of the 19th century. These were gigantic feats of technology which transformed everyday life but also had the capacity to challenge the Victorians’ faith in God, their place in the universe and their hopes for the future. Through stunning images of these beautiful creations, this film investigates the origins of our love-hate relationship with technology.

First, Simon visits the industrial landscape of Ironbridge in Shropshire to show … Ler mais

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Astronomia / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

Lost Horizons: The Big Bang

To coincide with the switch-on of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator complex, Professor Jim Al Khalili from the University of Surrey delves into over 50 years of the BBC science archive to tell the story behind the emergence of one of the greatest theories of modern science, the Big Bang

Professor Jim Al Khalili delves into over 50 years of the BBC science archive to tell the story behind the emergence of one of the greatest theories of modern science, the Big Bang.

The remarkable idea that our universe simply began from nothing has not always been accepted with the conviction it is today and, from fiercely disputed leftfield beginnings, took the best part of the 20th century to emerge as the triumphant explanation of how the universe began. … Ler mais

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Cosmic Dawn: The Real Moment of Creation

Horizon investigates the cosmic dawn, the moment one hundred million years after the big bang when the first stars were born

Forget the big bang. The real moment of creation was the cosmic dawn – the moment of first light. This is the scientific version of the story of Genesis.

The big bang gets all the credit for creating our universe. But in fact, the universe it gave was dark and boring. There were no stars, no galaxies, just a vast, black fog of gas – the cosmic dark ages.

But, after a hundred million years of nothing, … Ler mais

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Secrets of the Universe: Great Scientists in Their Own Words

The story of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and the discoveries they made, told in their own words. Revealing archive provides a unique insight into their lives.
Richard Feynman – Albert Einstein – Stephen Hawking – Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Fred Hoyle – Martin Ryle – Paul Dirac

Film telling the story of the greatest physicists of the 20th century and the discoveries they made, told in their own words. Men and women who transformed our understanding of the universe, from unlocking the secrets of the atom to solving the mysteries of the cosmos.

Revealing archive provides a unique insight into the lives and personalities of a … Ler mais

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A Brief History of Time

In 1992, Errol Morris finished A Brief History of Time, about the life and work of Stephen Hawking, the physicist who is often compared to Einstein and who is paralyzed and has spent much of his life in a wheelchair. In this film adaptation of Hawking’s book about the origins of the universe, Morris has woven together graphics, interviews and archival material in a story about both Hawking’s life and science. David Ansen in Newsweek has called it… Ler mais

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Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

Light Fantastic

Series in which Professor Simon Schaffer explores man's fascination with light

Light Fantastic is the title of a television documentary series that explores the phenomenon of light and aired in December 2004 on BBC Four. The series comprised four programmes respectively titled: “Let There Be Light”; “The Light of Reason”; “The Stuff of Light”; and “Light, the Universe and Everything.”

The material was presented by Cambridge academic Simon Schaffer.

Let There Be Light Episode 1 of 4
Simon Schaffer’s series exploring man’s fascination with light begins by revealing the … Ler mais

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EQUINOX: SIMPLY COMPLEX

The invisible world of particle physics and complex adaptive systems comes alive through the life and work of Murray Gell-Mann, one of the most important physicists of the 20th-21st centuries

A celebration of Murray Gell-Man, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who has devoted his research to the study of what is simple (as defined by the laws of physics) and what is complex (represented by the diversity of nature).

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Vídeo / Ciência e Tecnologia

Absolute Zero

Documentary charting the progress of scientists throughout history who attempted to harness the ultimate limit of cold, known as absolute zero

This two-part scientific detective tale tells the story of a remarkable group of pioneers who wanted to reach the ultimate extreme: absolute zero, a place so cold that the physical world as we know it doesn’t exist, electricity flows without resistance, fluids defy gravity and the speed of light can be reduced to 38 miles per hour.

Each film features a strange cast of eccentric characters, including: Clarence Birdseye; Frederic ‘Ice King’ Tudor, who founded an empire … Ler mais

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Matemática / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

Évariste Galois (Alexandre Astruc, 1965)

Les dernières heures du génial mathématicien mort en duel à l’âge de 21 ans

C’est un court-métrage de 25 minutes.

Rarement les maths ont été intégrées à un film avec un tel respect de la discipline. Une poignée de dialogues ne seront intelligibles qu’aux anciens élèves de maths-spé ayant bonne mémoire. Mais cela n’empêchera pas le vulgum pecus de comprendre dans quelle mesure les théories de Galois ont été méprisées par l’académie de son temps. Astruc oppose le génie fulgurant de Galois à l’esprit étriqué des polytechniciens. Cette opposition est présentée sans manichéisme outrancier, … Ler mais