Showing posts with label Brian Cox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brian Cox. Show all posts

Monday, August 14, 2017

What on Earth is Wrong with Gravity?

Particle physicist Brian Cox wants to know why the Universe is built the way it is. He believes the answers lie in the force of gravity. But Newton thought gravity was powered by God, and even Einstein failed to completely solve it. Heading out with his film crew on a road trip across the USA, Brian fires lasers at the moon in Texas, goes mad in the desert in Arizona, encounters the bending of space and time at a maximum security military base, tries to detect ripples in our reality in the swamps of Louisiana and searches for hidden dimensions just outside Chicago.




Related Links
The Universe (Season 2): Gravity
Gravity and Me: The Force that Shapes Our Lives

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Do You Know What Time It Is? (BBC Horizon)

Particle physicist Professor Brian Cox asks, 'What time is it?' It's a simple question and it sounds like it has a simple answer. But do we really know what it is that we're asking?
Brian visits the ancient Mayan pyramids in Mexico where the Maya built temples to time. He finds out that a day is never 24 hours and meets Earth's very own Director of Time. He journeys to the beginning of time, and goes beyond within the realms of string theory, and explores the very limit of time. He discovers that we not only travel through time at the speed of light, but the experience we feel as the passing of time could be an illusion.



Related Links:
Time presented by Michio Kaku