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  1. Tunnel to the Beginning of Time, A: Experimental Physics at Lhc (2015)

    Subject
    Physics; Science

    The particle collisions created at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland now involve energies never before achieved in the laboratory and may shed light on new fundamental particles and...

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  2. Six Billion Dollar Experiment (2007)

    Producer
    James van der Pool
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £195.00

    This film looks at the work of the CERN institute in Geneva, where scientists are engaged in experimental research that aims to recreate the conditions present at the first moments of the universe by forcing...

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  3. Millikan’s Oil Drop Experiment (1991 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 20 min., 1998 sale: £25.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows two experiments: using static drops to balance mg against nqe; plotting voltages on drops; size of drop ascertained from falling drops; reasons for experimental error; Millikan’s questionable...

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  4. Conquest of the Atom (1958 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    out of distribution, Videocassette. VHS. sd. col. 22 min.

    Tells the story of the structure and splitting of the atom. Beginning in 1895 with the work of J J Thomson in the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, which by 1897 was to disprove the conception of the atom...

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  5. Remaking the Universe: Recreating a Black Hole - Where Art and Physics Collide (2011)

    Subject
    Art; Astronomy; Physics

    While physicists attempt to understand the universe in their own way, Christian Gonzenbach draws on his experience as an artist-in-residence in the lab of Martin Pohl (University of Geneva, CERN) to do so...

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  6. Quantum Leaps into the Atom (1988 Video)

    Producer
    Tony Jolly
    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Off-air recording licence Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 25 min., 1998 sale: £145.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Atoms are like bubbles in space, the electrons surrounding a tiny central ncleus. Shows how experimental evidence from the atomic and nuclear spectrum and the energy scales found inside the atom can be...

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  7. Pioneers in Art and Science: Art, Poetry and Particle Physics (2005)

    Subject
    Arts and Humanities; Literature; Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 119 minutes), £14.99

    John Berger travels to the world’s biggest particle physics laboratory at CERN in Geneva to confront physicists with poetry. The film charts an extraordinary and wide-ranging series of discussions and...

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  8. Higgs Boson (2010)

    Subject
    Physics

    In 1964 Peter Higgs had a big idea about the mystery of how matter in the universe got its mass. This question has such an important place in physics that well over one billion pounds is being spent in the...

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  9. Towards One Force of Nature (1983 Video)

    Subject
    Physics
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min., 1995 sale: £95.00 (+VAT +p&p)

    Shows how Italian physicist Carlo Rubbia (who shared the Nobel Prize ofr Physics in 1984) and his team designed and constructed a 2000-tonne detector to record the ‘W’ particle as it speeds through the...

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  10. Linear Accelerator at Orsay, The (1964 Film)

    Subject
    Engineering; Physics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Deals with the principles of linear acceleration and beam focusing, the construction of the accelerator at Orsay, and its detectors and experimental areas.*

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