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It's hard to overstate just how excited scientists
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Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies

It's hard to overstatejust how excited scientists and engineers are about graphene, so let...

It's hard to overstate
just how excited scientists and engineers are about graphene, so let me just remind you
what graphene is

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It's hard to overstate just how excited scientists
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and engineers are about graphene,
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so let me just remind you what graphene is.
Duration
10 seconds
Views
20
Timestamp in Movie
00:49:45
Uploaded
May 06, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
Genres
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 • E02 The Great Attractor is still a mystery, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:12
The Great Attractor is still a mystery,
S01 • E01 It's just a single flat sheet of carbon atoms all bonded together. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
It's just a single flat sheet of carbon atoms all bonde...
S01 • E01 But that would be really under-selling it - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:13
But that would be really under-selling it
S01 • E02 And there we have it, our home in the universe. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:04
And there we have it, our home in the universe.
S01 • E01 For a sense of why graphene is so extraordinary, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:09
For a sense of why graphene is so extraordinary,
S01 • E02 Laniakea contains about 100,000 galaxies like ours - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:09
Laniakea contains about 100,000 galaxies like ours
S01 • E02 It stretches across half a billion light years. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
It stretches across half a billion light years.
S01 • E01 Each sheet is made up of repeating hexagons. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
Each sheet is made up of repeating hexagons.
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 • E02 So cosmologists like Helene use superclusters - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:11
So cosmologists like Helene use superclusters
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 Our question, our physics question, is gravitation. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
Our question, our physics question, is gravitation.