Absolute zero

The Resource Absolute zero
Label
Absolute zero
Statement of responsibility
produced and directed by David Dugan ; written by Tom Shachtman ; a production of Windfall Films and Meridian Productions for TPT/Twin Cities Public Television and WGBH/Nova in association with the BBC
Title variation
  • Absolute zero
  • Chasing the ultimate freezing point
Title variation remainder
chasing the ultimate freezing point
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  • eng
  • eng
  • eng
Summary
Presents the history of low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. The conquest of cold opens with experiments in the 1600s that asked what heat and cold are and whether they are different aspects of the same phenomenon. Shows how the experiments that settled those questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution. The race for absolute zero dramatizes the rivalry between Scottish researcher James Dewar and Dutch physicist Heike Onnes, who plunged cold science to the forbidding realm at which oxygen and then hydrogen turn into liquids. Shows how the quest continues today as scientists pioneer super-fast computing near absolute zero--the ultimate chill of -459.67° F, where atoms slow to a virtual standstill
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Cataloging source
TEFMT
Characteristic
videorecording
Dewey number
536/.56
Funding information
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation
Intended audience
Not rated
Language note
Closed-captioned. Optional audio-described soundtrack
LC call number
QC278
LC item number
.A27 2008
PerformerNote
Narrator, Neil Ross
Runtime
109
Technique
live action
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