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- Two-part documentary which deals with two of the deepest questions there are - what is everything, and what is nothing? In two episodes, Professor Jim Al-Khalili searches for an answer to these questions as he explores the true size and shape of the universe and delves into the amazing science behind apparent nothingness. EVERYTHING: The first part, Everything, sees Professor Al-Khalili set out to discover what the universe might actually look like. The journey takes him from the distant past to the boundaries of the known universe. Along the way he charts the remarkable stories of the men and women who discovered the truth about the cosmos and investigates how our understanding of space has been shaped by both mathematics and astronomy. NOTHING: Explores science at the very limits of human perception, where we now understand the deepest mysteries of the universe lie. Jim Al-Khalili sets out to answer one very simple question - what is nothing? His journey ends with perhaps the most profound insight about reality that humanity has ever made. Everything came from nothing. The quantum world of the super-small shaped the vast universe we inhabit today, and Jim Al-Khalili can prove it
- Comets - friend or foe? Once thought mystical, bringers of bad fortune: recent space missions reveal their origins and composition.
- 201954mTV-PG8.0 (34)TV EpisodeMeet the brilliant minds throughout history, from Galileo to Edwin Hubble, responsible for creating the telescope. Today, their invention allows humanity to reach the furthest limits of seeing - 13 billion light-years out.
- 1974– 52mTV-G8.0 (68)TV EpisodeNova examines the physics of telescope design. Following the development of the telescope over several centuries the program explains the challenges that the major design innovations solved and the inevitable major discoveries they produced.
- Michael begins with the story of one of the great upheavals in human history - how we came to understand that our planet was not at the centre of everything in the cosmos, but just one of billions of bodies in a vast and expanding universe. He reveals the critical role of medieval astrologers in changing our view of the heavens, and the surprising connections to the upheavals of the Renaissance, the growth of coffee shops and Californian oil and railway barons. Michael shows how important the practical skills of craftsmen have been to this story and finds out how Galileo made his telescope to peer at the heavens and by doing so helped change our view of the universe forever.
- In the concluding episode of the series, Jim encounters ever larger cosmic structures to reveal the latest breakthroughs in our understanding of the universe. For example, there's the heliosphere, a vast cloud of solar plasma that surrounds and protects the solar system. Its unique physics help us understand why life is possible. Larger still, Jim comes face to face with our galactic home the Milky Way, a monstrous structure sculpted by the gravitational forces of dark matter. Jim finds out from pioneering researcher Adrian Fabian about the black hole at its centre, whose strange behaviour includes emitting the lowest note that can be heard in the cosmos. At an even greater scale, Jim encounters huge structures such as the Laniakea Supercluster, of which the Milky Way is only a tiny part. Then there's 'the giant arc', a collection of galaxies that account for more than three per cent of the observable universe. Jim learns from its discoverer, British PhD student Alexia Lopez, that this gargantuan structure is forcing scientists to reassess their theory of how the universe evolves and may overturn some of the most fundamental principles in physics.
- 1964–8.3 (26)TV Episode
- 2022– 41mTV-PG6.0 (10)TV EpisodeThe team seeks out the wreck of the Revonoc, a racing yacht that vanished in 1958 with a crew of five. A freak magnetic anomaly was detected in the Bermuda Triangle when the yacht went missing.
- 2022– 41mTV-PG6.4 (9)TV EpisodeAre modern-day pirates prowling the Bermuda Triangle in search of victims? The team takes on the twisted case of a missing luxury boat called the Saba Bank lost in the vicinity of the Bermuda Triangle in 1974. This case was blamed on the Bermuda Triangle, but new leads suggest even deadlier forces were responsible. Divers Mike Barnette and Jimmy Gadomski consult their map of secret wrecks and dive in search of the Saba Bank, while the land investigators unravel alleged connections to the Mafia and cartel villains.
- 2022– 41mTV-PGTV EpisodeThe team unveils the greatest mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle: its most perplexing vanished ships and planes, and the strange and powerful forces said to be behind the Triangle's deadly reputation. Wreck divers Mike Barnette, Jimmy Gadomski, and team investigators Jason Harris, David O'Keefe, and Wayne Abbot provide inside information on what may have happened to the most famous missing ships and planes, their plans to solve the mysteries, and how their quest for answers will continue to new heights.