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Light and Dark

20161 Season60m episodes6.5

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how, by uncovering its secrets, scientists have used light to reveal the universe.

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Director: Stephen Cooter
Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 10, 2016
Network: BBC Four
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

2 hrs

2 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Jim Al-Khalili

Self - Presenter

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Light and Dark

20161 Season60m episodes6.5

Documentary

TMDB6.5

Votes6

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Professor Jim Al-Khalili shows how, by uncovering its secrets, scientists have used light to reveal the universe.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet. It is in United Kingdom.

Episodes

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E1 · Airs Oct 10, 2016 · 1h 0m
Light
The story of how we used light to reveal the cosmos begins in the 3rd century BC when, by trying to understand the tricks of perspective, the Greek mathematician Euclid discovered that light travels in straight lines. In Renaissance Italy 2,000 years later, Galileo Galilei did just that by using the lenses of his simple telescope to reveal our true place in the cosmos.With each new insight into the nature of light came a fresh understanding of the cosmos. In the 1670s, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer discovered that light travelled at a finite speed, a discovery that had a profound implication. And in 1964, by detecting the cosmic microwave background, the afterglow of the big bang, we captured the oldest light in the universe and saw as far back as it is possible to see with light.
E2 · Airs Oct 17, 2016 · 1h 0m
Dark
The first hints that there might be more out there than meets the eye emerged from the gloom in 1846 with the discovery of the planet Neptune. In the middle of the 20th century scientists discovered dark matter and in the late 1990s dark energy. Jim explores the quest to uncover the nature of dark energy and to see dark matter pull the first stars and galaxies together, a quest that involves peering into the darkest period in the cosmos's past.

Details

Director: Stephen Cooter
Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 10, 2016
Network: BBC Four
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

2 hrs

2 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Jim Al-Khalili

Self - Presenter

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