Messengers
Professor Brian Cox explores the laws of the universe. He shows how light holds the key to our understanding of the whole universe, including our own deepest origins.
In the last episode of Professor Brian Cox's epic journey across the universe, he travels from the fossils of the Burgess Shale to the sands of the oldest desert in the world to show how light holds the key to our understanding of the whole universe, including our own deepest origins.
To understand how light holds the key to the story of the universe, you first have to understand its peculiar properties. Brian considers how the properties of light that lend colour to desert sands and the spectrum of a rainbow can lead to profound insights into the history and evolution of our universe.
Finally, with some of the world's most fascinating fossils in hand Brian considers how, but for an apparently obscure moment in the early evolutionary history of life, all the secrets of light may have remained hidden. Because although the universe is bathed in light that carries extraordinary amounts of information about where we come from, it would have remained invisible without a crucial evolutionary development that allowed us to see. Only because of that development can we now observe, capture and contemplate the incredible wonders of the universe that we inhabit.
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Clips
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The Cambrian explosion
Duration: 03:15
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The speed of light
Duration: 03:56
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Oldest light in the Universe
Duration: 04:35
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Birth of the Universe
Duration: 04:54
Music Played
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Jermaine Dupri
Protector's of 1472 (feat. Snoop Dogg, R.O.C. & Warren G, Jermaine Dupri, Snoop Dogg, R.O.C., Warren G)
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Brian Cox |
Executive Producer | Jonathan Renouf |
Producer | Chris Holt |
Director | Chris Holt |
Series Producer | James Van Der Pool |
Broadcasts
- Sun 27 Mar 2011 21:00大象传媒 HD & 大象传媒 Two
- Mon 28 Mar 2011 01:30大象传媒 HD
- Tue 29 Mar 2011 19:00
- Fri 1 Apr 2011 00:00大象传媒 HD
- Tue 21 Jun 2011 00:25大象传媒 One except Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales
- Sat 25 Jun 2011 01:45大象传媒 One Northern Ireland
- Mon 11 Jul 2011 23:00大象传媒 HD
- Wed 13 Jul 2011 01:15大象传媒 HD
- Thu 29 Dec 2011 19:00
- Fri 30 Dec 2011 01:30
- Tue 24 Jan 2012 23:30大象传媒 HD
- Mon 27 Jun 2016 22:00
- Mon 4 Jul 2016 00:30
- Fri 8 Sep 2017 00:00
- Sat 4 May 2019 09:00大象传媒 Two except Scotland
- Thu 13 Feb 2020 23:00
- Sat 10 Oct 2020 09:00大象传媒 Two except Scotland
- Sat 9 Apr 2022 08:30大象传媒 Two except Scotland
- Fri 26 Aug 2022 00:35
- Fri 12 May 2023 15:15大象传媒 Two except Scotland