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Hiding in the Light

Name: Hiding in the Light
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2014-04-06
Duration: 44 min
Rating: 9
Cast: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Alfred Molina, Kenn Ashe

Episode aired Apr 6, 2014
TV-PG
44m

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Documentary

The Ship of the Imagination travels back in time to reveal 11th century Europe and North Africa during the golden age of Islam, when brilliant physicist Ibn al-Haytham discovered the scienti... Read allThe Ship of the Imagination travels back in time to reveal 11th century Europe and North Africa during the golden age of Islam, when brilliant physicist Ibn al-Haytham discovered the scientific method and first understood how we see, and how light travels. Later, William Herschel... Read allThe Ship of the Imagination travels back in time to reveal 11th century Europe and North Africa during the golden age of Islam, when brilliant physicist Ibn al-Haytham discovered the scientific method and first understood how we see, and how light travels. Later, William Herschel discovers the infrared and the signature hidden in the light of every star, eventually un... Read all

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Trivia
The imagery of atomic orbitals is a simplification. Electrons do not circle around the nucleus of an atom like planets around a star.

Goofs
In the animation about Mozi ("Mo Tze"), you see "Yi bin shou" ("a book") written in Chinese characters on a supporting wooden column in a writing room. It is written in Simplified Chinese, not Traditional Chinese.