BBC Horizon |
BBC Horizon |
Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Apr 30 2007, 11:51 AM
Post
#1
|
Guests |
Tuesday 01 May 2007 - BBC 2
The Six Million Dollar Experiment: On 26th November 2007, a team of scientists will start-up of a scientific experiment at Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. This experiment will reconstruct the effect of the Big Bang! |
|
|
Apr 30 2007, 12:50 PM
Post
#2
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 599 Joined: 26-August 05 Member No.: 476 |
And so the Universe began as a nuclear physics experiment.
|
|
|
Apr 30 2007, 01:15 PM
Post
#3
|
|
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Six Million Dollar.. Hmm - I think they missed off a few zeros there AND - with the accident a few weeks ago, November is looking iffy. But hey, Horizon never lets the facts get in the way of overly dramatising things.
|
|
|
Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Apr 30 2007, 01:53 PM
Post
#4
|
Guests |
Sure thing Doug... Did You see the BBC documentary in which they showed 4 scenarios/ways which could end the world? One of these was a mishap of such a particle accelerator experiment
For the interested, the other were a Tsunami, Asteroid impact and biological contamination. |
|
|
Apr 30 2007, 04:48 PM
Post
#5
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 909 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
While creating mini black holes is known to carry little risk as they evaporate quickly, the guys from Los Alamos who set off the first hydrogen bomb thought that there was a small chance that the atmosphere would ignite. They didn't have today’s modeling ability to sort it all out, so they just held their breath. Glad their intuition was correct.
-------------------- |
|
|
Apr 30 2007, 05:16 PM
Post
#6
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3648 Joined: 1-October 05 From: Croatia Member No.: 523 |
Glad their intuition was correct. Was it really intuition or just hope? The same story circles around for the first nuclear test in New Mexico, btw. -------------------- |
|
|
Apr 30 2007, 05:57 PM
Post
#7
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 249 Joined: 11-June 05 From: Finland (62°14′N 25°44′E) Member No.: 408 |
While creating mini black holes is known to carry little risk as they evaporate quickly... If terrestrial particle colliders could create energies needed to produce an Earth-consuming black hole, our planet would have gone long ago... Some cosmic particles that hit the Earth's atmosphere are by far more powerful than the ones that can be produced by humans. -------------------- The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
|
|
|
Guest_PhilCo126_* |
May 1 2007, 09:02 PM
Post
#8
|
Guests |
Indeed, let's hope CERN's IT department has efficient modeling software
Overall a superb Horizon documentary with great images ( Hubble Ultra Deep Field, New Jersey Horn Antenna, etc... ) and well explained why the 26th November 2007 experiment is so important: finding an explanation to the origin of mass... ByTheWay: looks like our newspaper from which I took the initial post in this topic had a typo, BBC's title is: Six BILLION Dollar experiment. Hope I had it on DVD |
|
|
May 1 2007, 09:11 PM
Post
#9
|
|
Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14431 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
Watching it now - melodramatic in the extreme. Horizon is not what it used to be.
|
|
|
Guest_PhilCo126_* |
May 20 2007, 04:55 PM
Post
#10
|
Guests |
Just wanted to point out that the HORIZON series are available via video.google... An example:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=...913767641232956 |
|
|
Guest_PhilCo126_* |
Jan 30 2008, 08:11 PM
Post
#11
|
Guests |
Well, the episode "What's Wrong with Gravity" was a good one!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes...and/index.shtml |
|
|
Jan 30 2008, 08:23 PM
Post
#12
|
|
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
Well, the episode "What's Wrong with Gravity" was a good one! Agreed, it was excellent. A real scientist who could really communicate, and no overbearing portentious music. Incidentally there is a programme on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm tonight (soon!) about growing plants in space. |
|
|
Jan 30 2008, 08:54 PM
Post
#13
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 117 Joined: 7-December 06 From: Sheffield UK Member No.: 1462 |
Agreed, it was excellent. A real scientist who could really communicate, and no overbearing portentious music. Incidentally there is a programme on BBC Radio 4 at 9pm tonight (soon!) about growing plants in space. I had a feeling it would be a good programme when I saw Dr Brian Cox was was presenting it. He has to be one of the most infectiously enthusiastic scientists around; which is something that is really needed these days. He really should have his own series on Quantum Physics, I'm sure if anyone could do this subject justice and describe it in a clear and eloquent way, it would be him. Well done Horizon. -------------------- It's a funny old world - A man's lucky if he gets out of it alive. - W.C. Fields.
|
|
|
Feb 3 2008, 11:04 AM
Post
#14
|
|
Dublin Correspondent Group: Admin Posts: 1799 Joined: 28-March 05 From: Celbridge, Ireland Member No.: 220 |
For those outside of the UK who are unable to watch this (easily) on iPlayer someone has put it up on Google Video. it is definitely worth taking the time to watch.
Brian Cox really does a really excellent job, I'll be keeping an eye out for any other chances to get to see\hear him as he really is an exceptional communicator. |
|
|
Mar 4 2008, 04:21 PM
Post
#15
|
|
Member Group: Members Posts: 655 Joined: 22-January 06 Member No.: 655 |
Horizon - tonight on BBC2 at 9.00p.m. looks into the hunt for extra-solar planets within the habitable zones of other stars.
Horizon is not the force it once was, but this may be quite informative. |
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 29th March 2024 - 10:19 AM |
RULES AND GUIDELINES Please read the Forum Rules and Guidelines before posting. IMAGE COPYRIGHT |
OPINIONS AND MODERATION Opinions expressed on UnmannedSpaceflight.com are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of UnmannedSpaceflight.com or The Planetary Society. The all-volunteer UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderation team is wholly independent of The Planetary Society. The Planetary Society has no influence over decisions made by the UnmannedSpaceflight.com moderators. |
SUPPORT THE FORUM Unmannedspaceflight.com is funded by the Planetary Society. Please consider supporting our work and many other projects by donating to the Society or becoming a member. |