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post Apr 30 2007, 11:51 AM
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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!

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post Apr 30 2007, 12:50 PM
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And so the Universe began as a nuclear physics experiment. rolleyes.gif
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post Apr 30 2007, 01:15 PM
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Six Million Dollar.. Hmm - I think they missed off a few zeros there smile.gif 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.
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post Apr 30 2007, 01:53 PM
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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 ohmy.gif
For the interested, the other were a Tsunami, Asteroid impact and biological contamination.
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post Apr 30 2007, 04:48 PM
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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. blink.gif


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post Apr 30 2007, 05:16 PM
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QUOTE (Floyd @ Apr 30 2007, 05:48 PM) *
Glad their intuition was correct. blink.gif
Was it really intuition or just hope? rolleyes.gif
The same story circles around for the first nuclear test in New Mexico, btw.


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post Apr 30 2007, 05:57 PM
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QUOTE (Floyd @ Apr 30 2007, 07:48 PM) *
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.


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post May 1 2007, 09:02 PM
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Indeed, let's hope CERN's IT department has efficient modeling software wink.gif

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 sad.gif
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post May 1 2007, 09:11 PM
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Watching it now - melodramatic in the extreme. Horizon is not what it used to be.
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post May 20 2007, 04:55 PM
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Just wanted to point out that the HORIZON series are available via video.google... An example:
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=...913767641232956
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post Jan 30 2008, 08:11 PM
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Well, the episode "What's Wrong with Gravity" was a good one!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes...and/index.shtml
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post Jan 30 2008, 08:23 PM
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QUOTE (PhilCo126 @ Jan 30 2008, 08:11 PM) *
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.
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QUOTE (ngunn @ Jan 30 2008, 08:23 PM) *
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.



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post Feb 3 2008, 11:04 AM
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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.
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post Mar 4 2008, 04:21 PM
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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.
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