Brian Cox visits the world's biggest vacuum chamber

NASA's space power facility is used to test the conditions of space while still on Earth by sucking many many tons of air out of the whole facility. Remember that feather-and-bowling ball trick from middle school? It actually works here.

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+16 1. sux2bu commented 9 years ago

I want to see them drop Justin Biebern and a bag of crap together to see which
one makes the bigger splat. >:)
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+38 2. 1010010010101 commented 9 years ago

#1. This experiment works better with two 'different' objects. :D
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+7 3. MindTrick commented 9 years ago

The ending was the most interesting part for my sake, i havent heard that angle of it before.
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+7 4. sux2bu commented 9 years ago

#3 Einstein did not believe that gravity was a force that acted on a body or mass but in his theory that gravity is not a force ,it's a curve in space-time.
Strange way to see things I think.
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+1 5. AL7AIR commented 9 years ago

So when is the Tesseract opening the portal for Loki in that chamber?
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+1 6. BrahmaBull commented 9 years ago

Not who i thought it would be
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+5 7. gpullen commented 9 years ago

Here's the full episode: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0276q28/human-universe-4-a-place-in-space-and-time
This clip is 40mins in.
(Use hola.org browser plugin to fake being in the UK if you cant play it)