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General Information
Science Documentary narrated by Simon Schaffer and published by BBC in 2007 - English narration
Information
Aired July 2007, BBC Four
Recorded July 29 2007, BBc Four
This two-part scientific detective tale tells the story of a remarkable group of pioneers who wanted to reach the ultimate extreme: absolute zero, a place so cold that the physical world as we know it doesn't exist, electricity flows without resistance, fluids defy gravity and the speed of light can be reduced to 38 miles per hour.
Each film features a strange cast of eccentric characters, including: Clarence Birds Eye; Frederic 'Ice King' Tudor, who founded an empire harvesting ice; and James Dewar, who almost drove himself crazy by trying to liquefy hydrogen.
Absolute zero became the Holy Grail of temperature physicists and is considered the gateway to many new technologies, such as nano-construction, neurological networks and quantum computing. The possibilities, it seems, are limitless.
Interesting links:
University of Oregon
Society of Physics Students
Conquest of Cold
Chronicles the major discoveries leading towards the mastery of cold, beginning with King James I's court magician, Cornelius Drebbel, who managed to air condition the largest interior space in the British Isles in 1620. Other stories will include the first "natural philosopher," Robert Boyle, a founder of the Royal Society in Great Britain; the Grand Duke Ferdinand II de Medici's involvement in the creation of the first thermometer; the establishment of the laws of thermodynamics by three young scientists, Sadi Carnot, James Joule and William Thomson; and Michael Faraday's critical achievement in liquefying several other gases which set the stage for the commercial application of cold to refrigeration and air conditioning.
Race for Absolute Zero
Focuses on the fierce rivalry that took place in the laboratories in Britain, Holland, France and Poland as they sought the ultimate extreme of cold. The program will follow the extraordinary discoveries of superconductivity and superfluidity and the attempt to produce a new form of matter that Albert Einstein predicted would exist within a few billionths of degrees above absolute zero.
Technical Specs
- Video Codec: XVID
- Video Bitrate: 1623 kbps
- Video Resolution: 384x672 (height x width)
- Video Aspect Ratio: 4x7 (1:1,75)
- Audio Codec: MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) <0x0055>
- Audio BitRate: 130 kbps
- Audio Streams: 1
- RunTime Per Part: 59 min 2,12 s (88553 Frames)
- Part Size: 744,83 MB
Links
Release Post
- MVGroup.org (ed2k)
- MVGroup.org (torrent)
- DocsPT.com
- DonkeyHeaven.com
- FileHeaven.org
- Norsk EselForum.org
- ShareTheFiles.com
- ShareVirus.com
- VeryCD.com
- xfileshare.co.uk
Official Website
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- Light Fantastic (BBC)
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