RiceRocket Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 One for the intellectuals to watch tonight. Got a good write-up/recommendation in the Radio Times, presented by that bloke from D:REAM. Do You Know What Time It Is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 One for the intellectuals to watch tonight. Got a good write-up/recommendation in the Radio Times, presented by that bloke from D:REAM. Do You Know What Time It Is? Thanks for the headsup. Got to love Horizon programmes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy442 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Hey, Chichen Itza, Ive been there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Good programme. I must learn quantum theory one day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy442 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 So the answer was, nobody knows Interesting programme, Id love to understand it all especially string and membrane theory, but it would frustrate me that all you would ever see is a whiteboard full of equations... Still, I dont care how well qualified particle physicist Professor Brian Cox is, I couldnt have him as a lecturer. Looks like a hybrid of Ian Brown and Keanu Reeves. Only a bit more simple looking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Missed it. Is it repeated? I'd search myself but, you know, I'm lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swampy442 Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Its gonna be on iPlayer 'soon' apparantly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted December 3, 2008 Author Share Posted December 3, 2008 I hate String Theory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted February 16, 2009 Author Share Posted February 16, 2009 Another sciencey one tomorrow night for the on here -Nuclear Fusion- Can We Make a Star on Earth? 17 Feb 2009, 21:00 on BBC Two Synopsis:Professor Brian Cox takes a global journey in search of the energy source of the future. Called nuclear fusion, it is the process that fuels the sun and every other star in the universe. Yet despite over five decades of effort, scientists have been unable to get even a single watt of fusion electricity onto the grid. Brian returns to Horizon to find out why. Granted extraordinary access to the biggest and most ambitious fusion experiments on the planet, Brian travels to the USA to see a high security fusion bomb testing facility in action and is given a tour of the world's most powerful laser. In South Korea, he clambers inside the reaction chamber of K-Star, the world's first super-cooled, super-conducting fusion reactor where the fate of future fusion research will be decided. "fusion bomb testing" - I'm watching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
den1 Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 Thanks for that:) ... Me Too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Will have to watch that, Brian Cox is a bit creepy though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 So the guy from D:REAM decided to get some science behind his chart topper? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewOW Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 So I take it that Mr Fusion (courtesy of BTTF2) is a little way off then? Bugger. I wanted one of those for my car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Will have to watch that, Brian Cox is a bit creepy though. Don't know about creepy, but he looks like a member of The Charlatans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lbm Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 On in 20 minutes... BBC2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobSheffield Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Ill be watching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Was interesting. I wish I was clever enough to learn Physics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted February 10, 2010 Author Share Posted February 10, 2010 Another interesting and probably mind-bending one tonight at 9m on BBC2 By our third year, most of us will have learned to count. Once we know how, it seems as if there would be nothing to stop us counting forever. But, while infinity might seem like an perfectly innocent idea, keep counting and you enter a paradoxical world where nothing is as it seems. Mathematicians have discovered there are infinitely many infinities, each one infinitely bigger than the last. And if the universe goes on forever, the consequences are even more bizarre. In an infinite universe, there are infinitely many copies of the Earth and infinitely many copies of you. Older than time, bigger than the universe and stranger than fiction. This is the story of infinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathmonkey Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Seriously though, I'll probably watch this one. Thanks for the heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Must record that. I watched the last episode of that other "Time" program the other day (mentioned in http://www.mkivsupra.net/vbb/showthread.php?t=207048)... and found it quite depressing really. Not that I'm going to be around at the end of the universe (I'm busy that day), but the thought that all the stars will all eventually die off and there'll be nothing but photons floating around forever more is a strange thing to grasp. I suppose there's always parallel universe theories. The last one of that Chemistry one was interesting too, scientists creating new elements beyond the current periodic table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiceRocket Posted February 10, 2010 Author Share Posted February 10, 2010 The last one of that Chemistry one was interesting too, scientists creating new elements beyond the current periodic table. Yes it was good wasn't it, I liked the mousetraps in a box analogy to describe the uranium reaction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Ooh I love infinity!! Bit of a strange thing to say but I love all the ideas behind it which hopefully this programme will go into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formatzero Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Knew all about this already, learned it years ago from Carter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbourner Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Twas a good programme I thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorin Posted February 11, 2010 Share Posted February 11, 2010 Interesting program. I've often thought that if space is infinite, what's to stop there being another "universe" like ours just immeasurably distant to our own that we can't see it. My mind is bent now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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