My OperaATOM - THE GREATEST DISCOVERY
Saturday, November 21, 2009 2:28:54 PM
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This is the story of the greatest scientific discovery ever. The discovery that everything is made of atoms. The vast variety and richness of everything we see around us in the world and beyond, how it builts up, how it fits together is all down to atoms and the mysterious laws they obey. As scientist delved deep into the atom, into the very heart of matter, they unravelled Nature's most shocking secrets. They had to abandon everything they believed in and create a whole new science. A science that today underpins the whole of physics, chemistry, biology, and maybe even life itself. But for me, a story of how humanity solved the mystery of the atom is both inspiring and remarkable. It's the story of great geniuses of men and women driven by their thirst for knowledge and glory. It's a story of false starts and conflicts, of ambition and revelation, a story that leads us through some of the most exciting and exhilarating ideas ever conceived of by human race. And for a working physicist like me, it's the most important story there is...
Prof. JIM AL-KHALILI
The discovery that everything is made from atoms has been referred to as the greatest scientific breakthrough in history. As scientists delved deep into the atom, they unraveled nature's most shocking secrets and abandoned traditional beliefs, leading to a whole new science which still underpins modern physics, chemistry and biology, and maybe even life itself. Nuclear physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of this discovery and the brilliant minds behind the breakthrough.
This the second of Professor Jim Al-Khalili's three part investigation into the basic building block of our universe - the atom. He shows that in our quest to understand the tiny atom, we unraveled the mystery of how the entire universe was created. It's a story with dramatic twists and turns, taking in world-changing discoveries like radioactivity, the Atom Bomb and the Big Bang. All this forms part of an epic narrative in which the greatest brains of the 20th century competed to answer the biggest questions of all - why are we here and how were we made?
In the last in the series Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He encounters ideas that seem like they’re from science fiction but in fact are a central part of modern science. He discovers there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist and finds out that empty space isn’t empty at all, but seething with activity. The world we think we know, the solid, re-assuring world of our senses, turns out to be a tiny sliver of an infinitely weirder and more wonderful universe than we had ever conceived of in our wildest fantasies.
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