Falling
Series in which Professor Brian Cox explores the laws of the universe. In this episode, Brian takes on the story of the force that sculpts the entire universe - gravity.
In the third episode, Professor Brian Cox takes on the story of the force that sculpts the entire universe - gravity.
Gravity seems so familiar, and yet it is one of the strangest and most surprising forces in the universe. Starting with a zero-gravity flight, Brian experiences the feeling of total weightlessness, and considers how much of an effect gravity has had on the world around us.
But gravity also acts over much greater distances. It is the great orchestrator of the cosmos. It dictates our orbit around the sun, our relationship with the other planets in our solar system, and even the way in which our solar system orbits our galaxy.
Yet the paradox of gravity is that it is actually a relatively weak force. Brian takes a face distorting trip in a centrifuge to explain how it is that gravity achieves its great power, before looking at the role it plays in one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the universe - a neutron star. Although it is just a few kilometres across, it is so dense that its gravity is 100,000 million times as strong as on Earth.
Over the centuries our quest to understand gravity has allowed us to understand some of the true wonders of the universe, and Brian reveals that it is scientists' continuing search for answers that inspires his own sense of wonder.
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Clips
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Black holes
Duration: 04:10
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Zero G flight
Duration: 03:38
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Brian simulates extreme gravity
Duration: 07:16
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Brian Cox |
Narrator | Steven Mackintosh |
Director | Chris Holt |
Producer | Chris Holt |
Executive Producer | Jonathan Renouf |
Series Producer | James Van Der Pool |
Broadcasts
- Sun 20 Mar 2011 21:00成人快手 HD & 成人快手 Two
- Mon 21 Mar 2011 01:30成人快手 HD
- Tue 22 Mar 2011 19:00
- Wed 23 Mar 2011 19:00成人快手 Two Northern Ireland
- Thu 24 Mar 2011 20:00成人快手 HD
- Tue 14 Jun 2011 00:25成人快手 One except Wales
- Mon 4 Jul 2011 23:00成人快手 HD
- Wed 6 Jul 2011 01:00成人快手 HD
- Wed 28 Dec 2011 19:00
- Thu 29 Dec 2011 00:50
- Mon 23 Jan 2012 23:00成人快手 HD
- Mon 20 Jun 2016 22:00
- Mon 27 Jun 2016 01:00
- Thu 31 Aug 2017 22:00
- Fri 1 Sep 2017 02:00
- Sat 27 Apr 2019 09:00成人快手 Two except Scotland
- Thu 6 Feb 2020 23:20
- Sat 3 Oct 2020 09:00成人快手 Two except Scotland
- Thu 25 Aug 2022 01:00
- Thu 11 May 2023 15:15成人快手 Two except Scotland