Rent Wonders of the Universe (2011)
4.2 of 5 from 64 ratings
3h 55min
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- Synopsis:
- Who are we? Why are we here? Where do we come from? These are among the most enduring and profound questions we can ask, and it is an essential part of human nature to want to find the answers. We can trace our ancestry back hundreds of thousands of years to the dawn of humankind, but in reality our story extends much further back: it starts with the beginning of the universe. Our universe began 13.7 billion years ago, and today it is filled with over 100 billion galaxies, each containing hundreds of billions of stars, and a breathtaking array of wonders. In this groundbreaking new series Prof. B Cox tells the epic story of our universe and shows how its story is also our story.
- Actors:
- Brian Cox
- Directors:
- Stephen Cooter, Michael Lachmann, Chris Holt
- Producers:
- James van der Pool, Stephen Cooter, Chris Holt, Michael Lachmann, Jonathan Renouf
- Narrated By:
- Steven Mackintosh
- Studio:
- BBC
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Documentaries
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- Release Date:
- 04/04/2011
- Run Time:
- 235 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 2.0
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.78:1 / 16:9
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (2) of Wonders of the Universe
Illuminating - Wonders of the Universe review by JD
A fascinating account of astrophysics filled with amazingly large numbers. The pace varies from slow computer graphics of artists impressions of colliding universes for example to some descriptions of universes that are difficult to digest. This episodic variation is soporific and I often found myself rewinding back to where I fell asleep. Very educational and humbling.
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Absolutely fantastic - Wonders of the Universe review by AB
Full of fascinating facts and numbers far too big to comprehend or visualise, the science behind stars, elements, time [past and future] etc. is explained in such a way that makes you feel so insignificant as to be useless in the 'scheme of things'. Even as a scientist, I find some of the areas explained here as so wonderful and almost incomprehensible that I feel compelled to read about them in even more detail. Full of facts that you can quote to make you seem very erudite - eg the 'heat death' of the cosmos will happen in 10,000 [trillion *8] years. Such a brilliant programme that it makes me want to buy the book that goes with the series. My only complaint (too strong a word for such a trivial observation) is the 'modern' usage of the American billions and trillions without a statement to that fact, when those measure differ from the UK definitions by at least a thousand at its basic level. Not that something dying in thousands of millions of years when compared to millions of millions of years would help change anything here as the numbers are too large to convey any real meaning !
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