Horizon · SEASON 48
What Is One Degree?
Episode 8 · 2011-01-10
- Documentary
Episode overview
Comedian Ben Miller returns to his roots as a physicist to try to answer a deceptively simple question: what is one degree of temperature? His quest takes him to the frontiers of current science as he meets researchers working on the hottest and coldest temperatures in the universe, and to a lab where he experiences some of the strangest effects of quantum physics - a place where super-cooled liquids simply pass through solid glass. Plus, Ben installs his very own Met office weather station at home. Ben's investigations in this personal and passionate film highlight the importance of measurement and accuracy in the 21st century.
60 minutes
Season 48 episodes
1. Back from the Dead2010-09-27
2. The Death of the Oceans?2010-10-04
3. What Happened Before the Big Bang?2011-10-11
4. Is Seeing Believing?2010-10-18
5. Miracle Cure? A Decade of the Human Genome2010-10-25
6. Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly2010-11-03
7. Deepwater Disaster - The Untold Story2010-11-16
8. What Is One Degree?2011-01-10
9. What Is Reality?2011-01-17
10. Science Under Attack2011-01-24
11. The Secret World of Pain2011-01-31
12. Surviving a Car Crash2011-02-07
13. How to Mend a Broken Heart2011-02-14
14. Are We Still Evolving?2011-03-01
15. Predators in Your Backyard2011-03-08
