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Marcus du Sautoy continues his exploration of the hidden numerical code that underpins all nature. This week it's the strange world of what happens next. Professor du Sautoy's odyssey starts with t...he lunar eclipse - once thought supernatural, now routinely predicted through the power of the code. But more intriguing is what the code can say about our future. Along the path to enlightenment, Marcus overturns the lemming's suicidal reputation, avoids being crushed to death, reveals how to catch a serial killer and discovers that the answer to life the universe and everything isn't 42 after all - it's 1.15.
Marcus du Sautoy continues his exploration of the hidden numerical code that underpins all nature. This week it's the strange world of what happens next. Professor du Sautoy's odyssey starts with t...he lunar eclipse - once thought supernatural, now routinely predicted through the power of the code. But more intriguing is what the code can say about our future. Along the path to enlightenment, Marcus overturns the lemming's suicidal reputation, avoids being crushed to death, reveals how to catch a serial killer and discovers that the answer to life the universe and everything isn't 42 after all - it's 1.15.
| Series: | The code |
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| Episode | 3 |
| First transmission date: | 2011 |
| Published: | 2011 |
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| Duration: | 00:58:56 |
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| Director: | Dan Child |
| Producer: | Dan Child |
| Presenter: | Marcus Du Sautoy |
| Contributor: | Marcus Du Sautoy |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open.ac.uk/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-the-code |
| Master spool number: | BOU050794 |
| Production number: | FKAI293K |
| Videofinder number: | 82081 |
| Available to public: | no |
