Atom pt 1,2 & 3

ATOM tells the story of the basic building block of the

universe. In their quest to understand the atom, researchers

have had to create a whole new science, unravel the mystery of

the start of the universe and rethink the nature of reality

itself



The world we think we know through our senses turns

out to be a tiny sliver of an infinitely weirder and more

wonderful universe than we ever imagined exsiting





Part 1



The first of three programmes in which nuclear physicist

Professor Jim Al-Khalili, tells the story of the greatest

scientific discovery ever - the fact that everything is made

of atoms. As scientists delved deep into the atom, into the

very heart of matter, they unravelled nature's most shocking

secrets. They had to abandon everything they believed in and

create a whole new science, which today underpins the whole of

physics, chemistry, biology and maybe even life itself. 'Atom'

tells a story of great genuises, people like Albert Einstein

and Werner Heisenberg who were driven by their thirst for

knowledge and glory. It's a story of false starts and

conflicts, ambition and revelation, a story which leads us

through some of the most exciting and exhilarating ideas ever

conceived of by the human race.



Part 2



The second in Professor Jim Al-Khalili's three-part

documentary about the basic building block of our universe

the atom. He shows how, in our quest to understand the tiny

atom, we unravelled the mystery of how the universe was

created - a story with dramatic twists and turns, taking in

world-changing discoveries like radioactivity, the atom bomb

and the Big Bang, as the greatest brains of the 20th century

competed to answer the biggest questions of all - why are we

here and how were we made.



Part 3



The final part of Professor Jim Al-Khalili's documentary

series about the basic building block of our universe, the

atom. He explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink

the nature of reality itself, discovers how there might be

parallel universes in which different versions of us exist and

finds out that 'empty' space isn't empty at all. Al-Khalili

shows how the world we think we know turns out to be a tiny

sliver of an infinitely weirder universe than which we could

have conceived