Horizon: What on Earth is Wrong With Gravity?

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Aired: Tuesday 29th January 2008 on BBC2

Particle physicist and ex D:Ream keyboardist Dr. Brian Cox believes that the answer to the meaning of the universe lies in gravity. On a road trip across the USA, Brian fires lasers at the moon in Texas and goes wild in the desert in Arizona. He encounters the bending of space and time at a maximum security military base and tries to detect ripples in our reality in the swamps of Louisiana.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-843994142204928073&hl=en

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Very interesting program, I missed it when it was aired, so I am glad to have seen it now. Thanks for posting it.
 
I've been in that laser ranging trailer at McDonald observatory. I think I even met the guy running it in the show.
 
Well, figuring out gravity (properly) would go along way towards a grand unifying theory, thus gravity is the answer.

I think.
 
Videoed it, still have to watch it. Now if only I can find those programs run on BBC a few years ago about all the background (and people) that went into Einstein's theory of relativity, those were so enjoyable.
 
Hmmm, this thread just smells of a visit...

<hellnback> Sits down and waits for Famine to walk through the thread door...</hellnback>
 
I like to see how science is presented as popular science... :D
 
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No, I just like to see how it's presented.
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Quite unussually in this case; young presenter slightly mental with some interesting locations and crazy camera effects. Not the normal scientific video presentation but I found it interesting.
 
They tried to get a good camera shot of the laser ranging station shooting the green laser beam at the moon, but it's too tough from a lighting situation.

I've got to tell you though, it's really cool to actually be there and watch it shoot lasers at the sky. They bounced lasers at the moon while we were there - which was cool, but not quite as cool as when they bounced the beam off of a satellite in orbit that had a corner cube reflector. That was extra awesome because you could see the it track the satellite as it moved through the sky.

It gives you a really weird feeling to know that that laser pulse you're looking at is bouncing all the way out to space and back.
 
Meh, I thought it was boring. I knew it all already by watching science shows from the past 10 years. Though, it's presented in a 'new' way by a nutter scientist that has a "Willy Wonka" quality about him. Some scenes at the locals he went to were cool, so it wasn't a total loss. I did quit watching after 30 minutes, or so, but I feel I got the complete idea.
 

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