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Absolute Zero

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Season 33 : Ep. 1|1:43:23|

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Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it's air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconductivity at the heart of cutting-edge technology. But what is cold? How do you achieve it, and how cold can it get? Hide Description

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Season:Episode	Title	Runtime	Air Date	User Rating	Queue
Season 33
9	Secrets of the Parthenon	53:11	01/29/2008
8	Marathon Challenge	52:44	10/30/2007
7	Astrospies	53:12	02/12/2008
6	The Four Winged Dinosaur	53:18	02/26/2008
5	Lord of the Ants	52:52	05/20/2008
4	A Walk to Beautiful	52:37	05/13/2008
3	Car of the Future	53:22	04/22/2008
2	Cracking the Maya Code	52:48	04/08/2008
1	Absolute Zero	1:43:23	01/08/2008
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about 1 month ago

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I'm curious how Cornelius Drebbel obtained ice in the 1st place. As the sequence stated, it was a hot summers day in 1620 England. No electricity at the time and no way of making ice. So where did he get it from?

about 1 month ago

I find it funny that you can't comprehend that cold doesn't exist. Cold is the absence of heat so talking about the things that deal with heat is perfectly reasonable.

Why are people so stupid? Irritating.

about 1 month ago

That's a really terrible reason to give it one star. Just because you had false expectations isn't a good enough reason to knock an excellent program.

Oh, well, stupid is as stupid does.

about 1 month ago

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Does anyone have any ideas or good web links which discuss what if the core of the black holes are actually in a 'Bose-Einstein Condensation' form or are at an absolute zero temperature. If the gravity at a black hole is so strong that it cant even let the light escape, how about the same gravity compresses the molecules to a 0K temperature and as a result zeros the density of the matter. Hence no density so no matter how much matter the black hole sucks in it always has place for some more.....

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This was a great history lesson, but unlike most NOVA experiences, it talks nothing about what we are doing with new sciences. I was curious to find out what benefits experiments with absolute zero are going to have in the near future, however, this episode only addresses the history of heat and cold... not what i was expecting at all.

2 months ago

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Anyone know the name of the music at 38:14?

4 months ago

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Amazing documentary. Very thorough. I loved it.

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