A Night with the Stars
2011 · 58 MIN · IMDB 8.1 · 202 VOTES
Overview
For one night only, Professor Brian Cox goes unplugged in a specially recorded programme from the lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. In his own inimitable style, Brian takes an audience of famous faces, scientists and members of the public on a journey through some of the most challenging concepts in physics. With the help of Jonathan Ross, Simon Pegg, Sarah Millican and James May, Brian shows how diamonds - the hardest material in nature - are made up of nothingness; how things can be in an infinite number of places at once; why everything we see or touch in the universe exists; and how a diamond in the heart of London is in communication with the largest diamond in the cosmos.
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00:00:02 Where's the reception? Oh, OK...
00:02:45 pillars of our understanding of nature -
00:05:15 Well, it makes predictions that can be tested against experiment
00:07:35 there are something like 3 million billion billion atoms
00:09:54 Now, one of the first great challenges for quantum theory -
00:12:25 Where's Sarah? I'm here. Hello. So Sarah - would you mind...?
00:14:52 being fired at two slits, and then there's a screen there, and so what
00:17:03 I mean this is just the experimental data... This was first done
00:19:51 He's got an earpiece in he's watching really carefully.
00:21:50 LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
00:24:06 So this is what you would call, physicists would call
00:26:49 The early years of quantum theory were dominated by boy wonders
00:29:22 Now this is doubly amusing for me
00:31:45 And the electrons fill up the energy levels like that.
00:34:11 that I don't fall through the empty atoms that make up the floor.
00:36:19 Therefore, every electron, around every atom
00:38:34 No ordinary genius, he was often described as.
00:40:32 This is called the Feynman path integral
00:42:42 that is the size of the box
00:45:25 No, I've done the unit conversion for you - you've just got to divide. Where's the unit conversion?
00:48:34 because it applies to small things, because Planck's constant is small.
00:51:03 about the life cycles of the stars themselves.
00:53:33 White dwarfs are so dense that if I were to stand on their surface
00:56:28 APPLAUSE