NOVA - Season 35 Episode 9
Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it s air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconductivity at the heart of cutting-edge technology. But what is cold? How do you achieve it, and how cold can it get? This two-part NOVA special brings the history of this frosty fascination to life with brilliant dramatic recreations of high moments in low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. In the second hour, The Race For Absolute Zero dramatizes the titanic rivalry between Scottish researcher James Dewar and Dutch physicist Heike Onnes, who plunged cold science to the forbidding realm at which oxygen and then nitrogen turn into liquids. The race 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.
First Air Date : 1974-03-03
Last Air date : 2024-11-27
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
- Season 35 : Episode 12007-10-09
- Season 35 : Episode 22007-10-16
- Season 35 : Episode 32007-10-30
- Season 35 : Episode 42007-11-07
- Season 35 : Episode 52007-11-13
- Season 35 : Episode 62007-11-20
- Season 35 : Episode 72007-12-18
- Season 35 : Episode 82008-01-08
- Season 35 : Episode 92008-01-15
- Season 35 : Episode 102008-01-29
- Season 35 : Episode 112008-02-12
- Season 35 : Episode 122008-02-19
- Season 35 : Episode 132008-02-26
- Season 35 : Episode 142008-04-08
- Season 35 : Episode 152008-04-22
- Season 35 : Episode 162008-05-13
- Season 35 : Episode 172008-05-20
