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This six part series tackles the big questions about the solar system, space and the universe. This episode asks how would you build a universe? Adam is at the world's biggest experiment, 27km long... and buried under the city of Geneva. Here they will attempt to blast their way back to the beginning of the Universe, creating conditions that haven't existed since a fraction of a second after the big bang. We will also meet a man who makes his own universes, though they don't always turn out like the real thing. Janet Sumner visits the lab in Oxfordshire where they make stars on Earth - 16,000 to date, though they only last half a second. And we meet the woman who takes her experiments on gravity defying flights to solve a problem: how did lumps of space matter stick together to form planets like Earth?
This six part series tackles the big questions about the solar system, space and the universe. This episode asks how would you build a universe? Adam is at the world's biggest experiment, 27km long... and buried under the city of Geneva. Here they will attempt to blast their way back to the beginning of the Universe, creating conditions that haven't existed since a fraction of a second after the big bang. We will also meet a man who makes his own universes, though they don't always turn out like the real thing. Janet Sumner visits the lab in Oxfordshire where they make stars on Earth - 16,000 to date, though they only last half a second. And we meet the woman who takes her experiments on gravity defying flights to solve a problem: how did lumps of space matter stick together to form planets like Earth?
| Series: | The cosmos a beginner's guide |
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| Episode | 2 |
| Published: | 2007 |
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| Duration: | 00:30:00 |
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| Producer: | Mark Jacobs |
| Contributors: | Maggie Aderin; Adam Hart-Davis; Janet Sumner |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University Screenhouse Productions |
| Link to related site: | Website: http://www.open2.net/cosmos/index.html |
| Subject terms: | Expanding universe; Universe |
| Footage description: | Two posters about the series are available for reference use only |
| Production number: | JOUA476E |
| Videofinder number: | 7753 |
| Available to public: | no |
