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Examines the disputes surrounding the Hubble constant started 60 years ago by American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble. In 1929 he discovered that all of the galaxies are rushing away from us and concluded...
In this schools broadcast, John Dover Wilson addresses a sixth-form audience on the topic of Shakespeare’s world.
The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,700 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or amendments,...
Describes different means of observing the universe from the earth. Describes the universe today, granulation of the sun, magnetic fields, eruptions on the sun and their effects on the earth. Discusses the...
Shows how scientists using the world’s largest optical telescopes have explored the origins of the universe. Ranges from Kant’s early speculations to Edwin Hubble’s observational evaluation of a...
Through recent observations made by radio telescopes scientists are now beginning to understand the origin of the universe, which had a hot and explosive beginning. As a result galaxies were formed during...
Examines the idea of an expanding universe covering briefly the main lines from Newton to the 20th century.
One of the predictions of Einstein’s theory of general relativity is that objects that ‘black holes’ may exist in the universe and that through discoveries and techniques of observation one may be able...
Explains the background to Newton’s ‘Principia’ of 1687 and looks at the developments in cosmological science during the 17th century. Following the observational and mathematical work of Copernicus,...
Professor Sir Fred Hoyle describes the insights that led him to challenge the ‘big bang’ theory of the origin of the universe and to attempt to establish his alternative steady state theory of an...
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