Thursday 8 January 2015

Mini-Movie Monday: Genesis Episode 4: Atoms (Synopsis)

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“A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.” -Niels Bohr



There’s a wonderful story that the Universe tells us about itself: the story of where everything in it came from, and how it came to be this way. From the perspective of a human being, there’s possibly no component of that as important to our existence as the humblest of all building blocks: the atoms.


Image credit: (c) Theodore W. Gray, from http://periodictable.com/.

Image credit: (c) Theodore W. Gray, from http://periodictable.com/.



Yet when the Universe first cooled from the Big Bang, over 99.999999% of what existed was nothing more than hydrogen and helium. So where did the atoms that make us up come from?


This sounds like a job for our Genesis series, so check out episode 4: Atoms!






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