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PBS Nova - Fractals - Hunting the Hidden Dimension.avi |
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Mysteriously beautiful fractals are shaking up the world of mathematics and deepening our understanding of nature.
A fractal is "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole," a property called self-...
Date: 2012-12-23 00:59:43
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What's invisible? More than you think - John Lloyd |
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Gravity. The stars in day. Thoughts. The human genome. Time. Atoms. So much of what really matters in the world is impossible to see. A stunning animation of John Lloyd's classic TEDTalk from 2009, which will make you question what you actually know.
Date: 2012-12-22 18:36:19
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Michio Kaku: The Universe in a Nutshell |
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What if we could find one single equation that explains every force in the universe? Dr. Michio Kaku explores how physicists may shrink the science of the Big Bang into an equation as small as Einstein's "e=mc^2." Thanks to advances in string theory, physics may allow us to escape the heat death of ...
Date: 2012-10-21 20:18:55
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Documentary: Benoit Mandelbrot - Hunting the Hidden Dimension (Nova ) |
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You may not know it, but fractals, like the air you breathe, are all around you. Their irregular, repeating shapes are found in cloud formations and tree limbs, in stalks of broccoli and craggy mountain ranges, even in the rhythm of the human heart. In this film, NOVA takes viewers on a fascinating ...
Date: 2012-01-05 02:41:15
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BBC News - Higgs boson 'glimpsed' at Large Hadron Collider |
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The most coveted prize in particle physics - the Higgs boson - may have been glimpsed, say researchers reporting at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.
The particle is a vital factor in science's understanding of the universe, but it has never been observed by experiments.
Finding the Higgs b
Date: 2011-12-19 02:54:44
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'The God Particle': The Higgs Boson |
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The HIGGS BOSON is a massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model in particle physics. At present there are no other known fundamental scalar particles in nature.
The Higgs boson is the only Standard Model particle that has not been observed. Experimental detection ...
Date: 2011-12-19 02:44:26
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Documentary: the Golden Ratio - Part 1/4 |
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What do the pyramids in Egypt, Leonardo da Vinci's portrait of the Mona Lisa, sunflowers, the snail, the pine cone and your fingers, all have in common?
The answer to this question lies hidden in a series of numbers discovered by the Italian mathematician, Leonardo Fibonacci. The characteristic o...
Date: 2011-11-13 20:04:38
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Documentary: Atoms - Clash of the Titans (Part 1) |
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As scientists delved deep into the atom, into the very heart of matter, they unraveled nature's most shocking secrets. They had to abandon everything they believed in and create a whole new science, which today underpins the whole of physics, chemistry, biology and maybe even life itself.
This se...
Date: 2011-09-14 03:36:15
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John Lloyd inventories the invisible |
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Nature's mysteries meet tack-sharp wit in this hilarious, 10-minute mix of quips and fun lessons, as comedian, writer and TV man John Lloyd plucks at the substance of several things not seen.
Date: 2011-07-11 03:48:38
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