Jim Al-Khalili is about to untangle the world's greatest science
conundrums... ___________ How does the fact that it gets dark at
night prove the Universe must have started with a big bang? Where
are all the aliens? Why does the length of a piece of string vary
depending on how fast it is moving? Our subject is 'perceived
paradoxes' - questions or thought-experiments that on first
encounter seem impossible to answer, but which science has been
able to solve. Our tour of these mind-expanding puzzles will take
us through some of the greatest hits of science - from Einstein's
theories about space and time, to the latest ideas of how the
quantum world works. Some of our paradoxes may be familiar, such as
Schroedinger's famous cat, which is seemingly alive and dead at the
same time; or the Grandfather Paradox - if you travelled back in
time and killed your grandfather you would not have been born and
would not therefore have killed your grandfather. Other paradoxes
will be new to you, but no less bizarre and fascinating. In
resolving our paradoxes we will have to travel to the furthest
reaches of the Universe and explore the very essence of space and
time. Hold on tight.
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