Absolute zero

produced and directed by David Dugan ; written by Tom Shachtman ; a production of Windfall Films and Meridian Productions for TPTTwin Cities Public Television and WGBHNova in association with the BBC

videorecording (DVD) - 2007

Presents the history of low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. The conquest of cold opens with experiments in the 1600s that asked what heat and cold are and whether they are different aspects of the same phenomenon. Shows how the experiments that settled those questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution. The race for absolute zero dramatizes the rivalry between Scottish researcher James Dewar and Dutch physicist Heike Onnes, who plunged cold science to the forbidding realm at which oxygen and then hydrogen turn into liquids. Shows how the quest continues today as scientists pioneer super-fast computing near absolute zero--the ultimate chill of -459.67° F, where atoms slow to a virtual standstill.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Windfall Films (Firm), WGBH Video (Firm)
Other Authors:	Dugan, David (Producer, Director), Ross, Neil, 1944- (Narrator), Shachtman, Tom, 1942-
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	English
Published:	[Boston] : WGBH Boston Video, c2007.
Subjects:	Low temperature research. Low temperatures. Cold. Television adaptations. Science television programs. Documentary television programs. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.

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500			\|a Originally broadcast on public television as an episode of the television program Nova in 2007.
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