| Description |
1 online resource (49 minutes) |
| Summary |
Temperature is a natural part of our everyday lives. It's there when we shiver in the cold, watch a lightning storm or boil the kettle for tea. We think we know all about temperature, but the science behind it is full of surprises. Explosive demonstrations and fascinating case studies examine temperature at a molecular, human and planetary level. Witness solids that behave like liquids, super-cooled ceramics that defy gravity, and plasmas hotter than the sun. Everyday notions of temperature are turned on their head in a show guaranteed to provoke heated debate. In episode one, Helen ventures to the bottom of the temperature scale, revealing how cold has shaped the world around us and why frozen doesn't mean what you might think. She meets the scientists pushing temperature to the very limits of cold, where the normal laws of physics break down and a new world of scientific possibility begins. The extraordinary behaviour of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero is driving the advance of technology, from superconductors to quantum computing |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed March 06, 2019) |
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"The incredible science of temperature" |
| Performer |
Presented by Dr. Helen Czerski |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Temperature.
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Temperature -- Physiological effect.
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Cold.
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Cold -- Physiological effect.
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Temperature
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Cold Temperature
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temperature.
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cold.
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Cold.
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Cold -- Physiological effect.
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Temperature.
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Temperature -- Physiological effect.
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| Genre/Form |
Documentary television programs.
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Documentary television programs.
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Documentaires télévisés.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Hemingway, Alex, director, producer
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BBC Studios, production company.
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