BBC: Science You Can’t See
I wasn’t aware of this until I saw an advert on News 24, but the BBC are planning to show a series of science programmes under the banner of Science You Can’t See.
The press release names the three programmes as Dangerous Knowledge, Atom and Absolute Zero.
The premise of this season of programmes is described in the press release:
The 20th century saw scientific breakthroughs unprecedented in history, but the most important weren’t just invisible, they were barely comprehensible, even to the geniuses who pioneered them.
This series attempts the impossible – to make these breakthroughs not just visible, but also understandable.
From the particles that go to make up the atom, and the bizarre laws they obey, to mathematics so staggeringly abstruse that they have driven mathematicians to insanity and beyond, welcome to a short season of Science You Can’t See.
Such scientific luminaries as physicists Sir Roger Penrose and Faraday prize winner Jim Al-Khalili feature in these shows, and hope to make some of the more recondite scientific understandings a little more transparent and accessible to those who don’t have much or any exposure to the bleeding edge of hard science.
The season begins on BBC4 on Tuesday 24th July, with Absolute Zero – The Conquest Of Cold at 9pm. Put it in your calendars.