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Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies

So, we've prepared some graphenesamples for you

So, we've prepared some graphene
samples for you

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So, we've prepared some graphene samples for you.
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00:52:00
Uploaded
May 06, 2025
Season
1
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1
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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 The samples are on a copper grid just millimetres wide. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
The samples are on a copper grid just millimetres wide.
S01 • E02 If I look at this sheet of sandpaper, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:09
If I look at this sheet of sandpaper,
S01 • E01 Let me put it here and actually place it into the sample holder. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
Let me put it here and actually place it into the sample hol...
S01 • E01 That's the three millimetre sample? That's the three millimetre sample, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
That's the three millimetre sample? That's the thr...
S01 • E02 But if I zoom in, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:09
But if I zoom in,
S01 • E02 Mottled colours of black and brown and yellow, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:11
Mottled colours of black and brown and yellow,
S01 • E01 Under the optical microscope, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:09
Under the optical microscope,
S01 • E02 According to our current theory, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
According to our current theory,
S01 • E01 To see them in more detail, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
To see them in more detail,
S01 • E01 So what we're looking at now is the same image - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:07
So what we're looking at now is the same image
S01 • E02 After the Big Bang, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:10
After the Big Bang,
S01 • E01 You can already recognise there's two shadows here, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
You can already recognise there's two shadows here,
S01 • E01 But in the middle here, you recognise what you also saw - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:12
But in the middle here, you recognise what you also saw
S01 • E02 The power of gravity brought together galaxies - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
The power of gravity brought together galaxies
S01 • E02 But over a certain size, - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
But over a certain size,
S01 • E02 Like my sandpaper, the universe should appear featureless. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
Like my sandpaper, the universe should appear featureless.
S01 • E01 Slowly getting closer and closer and closer. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:06
Slowly getting closer and closer and closer.
S01 • E02 This is what's called the cosmological principle - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:08
This is what's called the cosmological principle
S01 • E01 We're going to be zooming into graphene much further in. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
We're going to be zooming into graphene much further in...
S01 • E01 This is a patch of graphene that's about 500 nanometres across. - Secrets of Size: Atoms to Supergalaxies 00:05
This is a patch of graphene that's about 500 nanometres...