BBC Science The Theory of (nearly) Everything 2019

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

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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 ...

NA SA ,^ G ET TY X^2 ,^ S CIE NC E^ P HO TO LI BR AR Y,^ C OR BIS 56 68 How Darwin helped develop the theory of evolution 22 Mea ...

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 CE RN ,^ G ET TY The L arge Hadron Collider is used to recreate conditions in the moments immediatel ...

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 SC IEN CE PH OT O^ L IBR AR Y 5 While the experiments involving the LHC can show what particles were ...

THE STORY OF THE UNIVERSE SC IEN CE PH OT O^ L IBR AR Y,^ GE TT Y A baffling find by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson that the Uni ...

GE TT Y^ X 2 ,^ S CIE NC E^ P HO TO LI BR AR Y,^ N AS A^ X 2 5 Universe remains in the form of this primordial hydrogen and heli ...

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

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

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THE FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS SC IEN CE PH OT O^ L IBR AR Y,^ I ST OC K Rober t Bunsen and Gust av Kirchof f found pat terns of br ...

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 SC IEN CE PH OT O^ L IBR AR Y,^ G ET TY 5 spectroscopy, they found that each element produced bright ...

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

SC IEN CE &^ SO CIE TY ,^ S CIE NC E^ P HO TO LI BR AR Y,^ GE TT Y^ X 2 ,^ N AS A 5 Norman Lockyer. His greatest achievement ...