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It stretches across half a billion light years
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Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies

It stretches acrosshalf a billion light years

It stretches across
half a billion light years

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It stretches across half a billion light years.
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5 seconds
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00:50:20
Uploaded
May 06, 2025
Season
1
Episode
2
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documentary

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In this mind-bending series, Jim Al-Khalili explores the vast range of size in the universe, from tiny atoms to gigantic, interconnected galaxies.
S01 • E01 At each corner is a carbon atom - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
At each corner is a carbon atom
S01 • E02 Looking at all of this, you can see why they called it Laniakea. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
Looking at all of this, you can see why they called it Lania...
S01 • E02 It's a Hawaiian term meaning 'immense heaven'. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
It's a Hawaiian term meaning 'immense heaven'...
S01 • E01 Those bonds are the source of the material's strength, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:08
Those bonds are the source of the material's strength,
S01 • E02 These giant superclusters are only just being discovered, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:10
These giant superclusters are only just being discovered,
S01 • E01 Each carbon atom bonds to its three neighbours - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
Each carbon atom bonds to its three neighbours
S01 • E02 From earthly scales to the rotation of galaxies, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:17
From earthly scales to the rotation of galaxies,
S01 • E01 One electron from each atom is spare. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:04
One electron from each atom is spare.
S01 • E01 These free electrons can zip around unhindered, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:12
These free electrons can zip around unhindered,
S01 • E01 There are high hopes that it will enable new kinds - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:18
There are high hopes that it will enable new kinds
S01 • E02 So cosmologists like Helene use superclusters - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:11
So cosmologists like Helene use superclusters
S01 • E02 Our question, our physics question, is gravitation. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
Our question, our physics question, is gravitation.
S01 • E01 Of course, this is still early days in graphene research - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:08
Of course, this is still early days in graphene research
S01 • E02 And was it always the same in time? - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:04
And was it always the same in time?
S01 • E02 So we use the universe as a lab with huge masses - the galaxies. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
So we use the universe as a lab with huge masses - the galax...
S01 • E01 The discovery of graphene brings us towards the end of this story, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:14
The discovery of graphene brings us towards the end of this ...
S01 • E02 From the infinite small to the infinite large, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:09
From the infinite small to the infinite large,
S01 • E02 We still miss the full understanding of it. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
We still miss the full understanding of it.
S01 • E02 By studying superclusters, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:09
By studying superclusters,
S01 • E01 Professor Quentin Ramasse - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
Professor Quentin Ramasse