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- This BBC documentary outlines the evidence that suggest that Newton's revolutionary ideas about light came from his secret work as an alchemist.
- The story of how a giant of science was erased from history by the jealous rival Isaac Newton.
- When you're a genius your're expected to be a bit quirky and your genius makes up for miserable people skills. But for these ten their pure nastiness outshines their genius. Antisemitism, sexism, elitism and slander aren't exactly capital crimes though for this group, despite their accomplishments, may make you want to reconsider.
- Arran discusses George Berkeley's 'idealistic' question "If a tree falls in the forest but know one is their to hear it does it make a sound?" Rather than taking a purely philosophical approach to the question he uses a physical/semantic approach beginning with "What is sound?"
- Andrew derives the mass of a particle from the energy of a wave in a field.
- 201444mTV-PG9.0 (2.5K)TV EpisodeNeil deGrasse Tyson sets off on the Ship of the Imagination to chase a single comet through its million-year plunge toward Sol. Later, Tyson visits the birth-place of Sir Isaac Newton and retraces the unlikely friendship between Newton and brilliant polymath Edmond Halley. It was Halley's patience and generosity which allowed Newton to conquer his fear of isolation and find the courage to publish his masterwork, "Principia Mathematica" which launched a scientific revolution.
- A scientist figures out how to go to the moon while fighting for his life in a war trench.