Quarterly Program Topic Report July 1-15, 2012 Category ... - WYES
Quarterly Program Topic Report July 1-15, 2012 Category ... - WYES
Quarterly Program Topic Report July 1-15, 2012 Category ... - WYES
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
handed, and the conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics has<br />
stymied all who've followed. That is, until the discovery of string theory.<br />
"String's the Thing" In the second hour, Greene describes the serendipitous<br />
steps that led from a forgotten 200-year-old mathematical formula to the<br />
first glimmerings of strings - quivering strands of energy whose different<br />
vibrations give rise to quarks, electrons, photons and all other elementary<br />
particles. Strings are truly tiny - smaller than an atom by the same factor<br />
that a tree is smaller than the entire universe. But, as Greene explains, it<br />
is possible - for the first time ever - to combine the laws of the large and<br />
the laws of the small into a proposal for a single, harmonious "Theory of<br />
Everything."<br />
<strong>Category</strong>: Science/Technology<br />
NOLA: NOVA 003709<br />
Series Title: NOVA | Hunting the Edge of Space<br />
Episode Title: The Ever Expanding Universe<br />
Length: 60 minutes<br />
Airdate: 7/1/<strong>2012</strong> 7:00:00 PM<br />
O.B. Date: 4/13/2010<br />
Service: PBS<br />
Format: Documentary<br />
Segment Length: 00:56:46<br />
In a two-hour special, NOVA examines how a simple instrument, the telescope,<br />
has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe.<br />
What began as a curiosity--two spectacle lenses held a foot apart--ultimately<br />
revolutionized human thought across science, philosophy and religion.<br />
Telescope takes viewers on a global adventure of discovery, dramatizing the<br />
innovations in technology and the achievements in science that have marked<br />
the rich history of the telescope. This tale of human ingenuity involves some<br />
of the most colorful figures of the scientific world-Galileo, Kepler, Newton,<br />
William Herschel, George Hale, and Edwin Hubble-leading up to today's<br />
colossal telescopes, housed in space-age cathedrals or orbiting high above<br />
the Earth. Now at the center of an international space race, a new generation<br />
of ever-larger telescopes is poised to reveal answers to longstanding<br />
questions about our universe-and, in turn, to raise new questions.<br />
<strong>Category</strong>: Science/Technology<br />
NOLA: NOVA 003816<br />
Series Title: NOVA | The Fabric of the Cosmos<br />
Episode Title: What Is Space<br />
Length: 60 minutes<br />
Airdate: 7/11/<strong>2012</strong> 8:00:00 PM<br />
O.B. Date: 11/2/2011<br />
Service: PBS<br />
Format: Documentary<br />
Segment Length: 00:00:00<br />
Space. It separates you from me, one galaxy from the next, and atoms from
Change language