The Cosmos: A Beginner’s Guide
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- Episode
- Building The Universe
- Broadcast Info
- 2007 (29 mins)
- Description
- We report from the Large Hadron Collider, the biggest particle accelerator in the World, located in a 27km tunnel 100m underneath Geneva! Here scientists intend to recreate the Big Bang and reveal the fundamental beginnings of our Universe. We head to the famous Hooker telescope in California, where in the 1920s Edwin Hubble first observed galaxies moving away from each other and worked out how and when the Universe began. We meet the man who has been creating Universes for the last 25 years, albeit through Durham Universities Super Computer, and we visit the starmakers at UKAEA Fusion to learn how artificial stars might one day save the planet! We find out about a 7-year mission to collect stardust, but it’s so tiny now NASA needs the public’s help to find it! And we learn about the stomach churning attempts to make planets in zero gravity!
Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator Geneva Hooker telescope California Hubble Edwin Durham Universities Super Computer universe modelling UKAEA Fusion artificial stars collecting stardust making planets in zero-G - Genre
- Science; Astronomy; Cosmology
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The Open University, "The Cosmos: A Beginner’s Guide". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/7753 (Accessed 11 Jan 2025)