BBC Science Focus - The Theory of Nearly Everything

EVERYTHING THE THEORY OF (nearly) The big ideas and discoveries in science explained FROM THE MAKERS OF BBC SCIENCE FOCUS MAGAZI ...

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Two simple ques tions NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) was used to help determine the age of the Universe (p12 ...

08 Discover how Democritus set us on a path towards an atomic theor y of the Universe The story of the Universe from the Big Ban ...

NASA, GET T Y X2, SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY, CORBIS 56 68 How Darwin helped develop the theory of evolution 22 Measuring the speed o ...

6 The compact muon solenoid detector is designed to see a wide range of particles and phenomena produced in high-energy collisio ...

7 THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS The Story of the UNIVERSE The Composition of STARS Measuring the Speed of LIGHT The Nature of GRAV ...

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS CERN, GETTY The L arge Hadron Collider is used to recreate conditions in the moments immediately af ...

The Big Bang saw the Universe rapidly expand out of a single, incredibly dense spot. The heat from its ‘birth’ is still detectab ...

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY 5 While the experiments involving the LHC can show what particles were prevale ...

THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY, GETTY A baffling find by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson that the Universe was w ...

GETTY X2, SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY, NASA X 5 Universe remains in the form of this primordial hydrogen and helium. Only two per cent ...

THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE NASA The cosmic terms you’ll need to know to understand the Big Bang COSMOLOGICAL REDSHIFT A s tretchi ...

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS ISTOCK Left to right: the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn (not to scale) 5 we know ...

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THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY, ISTOCK Rober t Bunsen and Gust av Kirchof f found pat terns of bright lines i ...

A ground-breaking experiment studying the spectrum of light revealed the first signs of elements making up the Sun. Later, a sci ...

THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY, GETTY 5 spectroscopy, they found that each element produced bright lines in t ...

THE COMPOSITION OF STARS GETTY we should be able to do t he sa me thing for the Sun. But people would say we have gone mad to dr ...

SCIENCE & SOCIETY, SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY, GETTY X2, NASA 5 Norman Lockyer. His greatest achievement ca me on 20 October 1868 ...