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The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements | Preview
Journey through the history of science on a quest to understand matter. ( 1:00)
Aired: August 19, 20151:00Rating: TV-G
  Journey through the history of science on a quest to understand matter. Aired 8/19 2015
THE MYSTERY OF MATTER

Full Episode | Episode 1: Out of Thin Air

THE MYSTERY OF MATTER
Full Episode | Episode 1: Out of Thin Air
​Aired: 2015-08-19 54:20
Expires: 02/19/16 Rating: TV-PG
See how Joseph Priestley & Antoine Lavoisier trigger a worldwide search for new elements.
THE MYSTERY OF MATTER

Full Episode | Episode 2: Unruly Elements
Aired: 2015-08-19 53:50 
Expires: 02/19/16 Rating: TV-PG 
Explore how the discovery of radioactivity
​changed how elements were understood.
THE MYSTERY OF MATTER

Full Episode | Episode 3: Into the Atom

Aired: 2015-08-19 
55:19 Expires: 02/19/16 Rating: TV-PG
Find out how the creation of a new element
changesthe world forever.

Einstein's Big Idea PBS
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Program Description
   Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win him the Nobel Prize in Physics. Among Einstein's ideas, E = mc2 is by far the most famous. Yet how many people know what it really means? In a thought-provoking and engrossing docudrama, NOVA illuminates this deceptively simple formula by unraveling the story of how it came to be.

NOVA The Great Math Mystery PBS

Published on Jun 30, 2015
​  Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of a sunflower. Math was essential to everything from the first wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars. Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond. It all leads to the ultimate riddle: Is math a human invention or the discovery of the language of the universe?

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To Infinity and Beyond: The Accelerating Universe

Published on Jul 15, 2015
​  Dark energy is cosmology's biggest mystery—an anti-gravitational force that confounds the conventional laws of physics. It makes up more than two-thirds of the cosmos, but science is still grappling to explain what dark energy actually is. In this program, top physicists search for clues to this mystery in both the earliest moments of the universe and far into the future of the cosmos.
Josh Frieman, Priyamvada Natarajan,
Adam Riess, Jan Tauber, Neil Turok
Original Program Date: 05/28/2015

A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram

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Gerard ’t Hooft, Leonard Susskind, Raphael Bousso, Herman Verlinde
Original Program Date: Friday June 3, 2011
Published on Dec 29, 2014
  What we touch. What we smell. What we feel. They’re all part of our reality. But what if life as we know it reflects only one side of the full story? Some of the world’s leading physicists think that this may be the case. They believe that our reality is a projection—sort of like a hologram—of laws and processes that exist on a thin surface surrounding us at the edge of the universe. Although the notion seems outlandish, it’s a long-standing theory that initially emerged years ago from scientists studying black holes; recently, a breakthrough in string theory propelled the idea into the mainstream of physics. What took place was an intriguing discussion on the cutting-edge results that may just change the way we view reality.

Rebooting the Cosmos: Is the Universe the Ultimate Computer?

Published on Dec 9, 2014

  As computers become progressively faster and more powerful, they’ve gained the impressive capacity to simulate increasingly realistic environments. Which raises a question familiar to aficionados of The Matrix—might life and the world as we know it be a simulation on a super advanced computer? “Digital physicists” have developed this idea well beyond the sci-fi possibilities, suggesting a new scientific paradigm in which computation is not just a tool for approximating reality, but is also the basis of reality itself. In place of elementary particles, think bits; in place of fundamental laws of physics, think computer algorithms. But is this a viable approach? Is the universe the ultimate computer running some grand cosmic code? A discussion among the brightest minds in digital physics to explore math, computer science, theories of consciousness, the origin of life, and free will—and delve into a world of information that may underlie everything.

World Science Festival

Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace

World Science Festival

Published on Jan 15, 2015 Extra dimensions of space—the idea that we are immersed in hyperspace—may be key to explaining the fundamental nature of the universe. Relativity introduced time as the fourth dimension, and Einstein’s subsequent work envisioned more dimensions still--but ultimately hit a dead end. Modern research has advanced the subject in ways he couldn’t have imagined. John Hockenberry joins Brian Greene, Lawrence Krauss, and other leading thinkers on a visual tour through wondrous spatial realms that may lie beyond the ones we experience.
Escher String Quartet, Brian Greene,
Lawrence Krauss, Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Shamit Kachru
Original Program date:June 5, 2010

Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality

Published on Jun 20, 2014
  When no one is looking, a particle has near limitless potential: it can be nearly anywhere. But measure it, and the particle snaps to one position. How do subatomic objects shed their quantum weirdness? Experts in the field of physics, including David Z. Albert, Sean Carroll, Sheldon Goldstein, Ruediger Schack, and moderator Brian Greene, discuss the history of quantum mechanics, current theories in the field, and possibilities for the future.
Participants: David Z. Albert, Sean Carroll, Sheldon Goldstein, Ruediger Schack
moderator Brian Greene Original Program date: May 29, 2014