NOVA - Season 35 Episode 9 Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero

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NOVA - Season 35 Episode 9 Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero

NOVA - Season 35 Episode 9 Absolute Zero: The Race for Absolute Zero

Overview: 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? This two-part NOVA special brings the history of this frosty fascination to life with brilliant dramatic recreations of high moments in low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. In the second hour, The Race For Absolute Zero dramatizes the titanic rivalry between Scottish researcher James Dewar and Dutch physicist Heike Onnes, who plunged cold science to the forbidding realm at which oxygen and then nitrogen turn into liquids. The race 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.

Watch Trailer First Air Date: Mar 03, 1974 Last Air date: Oct 09, 2024 Season: 51 Season Episode: 991 Episode Runtime: 55 minutes Quality: HD IMDb: 6.80 / 10 by 114 users Popularity: 189.237 Language: English

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