Horizon

What Is One Degree?

Directed by Dan Clifton
TV-PG
S48 • E8    Jan 9, 2011    60m
6.8
Comedian Ben Miller returns to his roots as a physicist to try to answer a deceptively simple question: what is one degree of temperature? His quest takes him to the frontiers of current science as he meets researchers working on the hottest and coldest temperatures in the universe, and to a lab where he experiences some of the strangest effects of quantum physics - a place where super-cooled liquids simply pass through solid glass. Plus, Ben installs his very own Met office weather station at home. Ben's investigations in this personal and passionate film highlight the importance of measurement and accuracy in the 21st century.

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Cast of What Is One Degree?

  • Ben MillerSelf - Presenter
  • Jim Al-KhaliliSelf
  • Peter AtkinsSelf - Oxford University
  • Janet BarlowSelf - University of Reading
  • Hasok ChangSelf - University College London
  • Michael de PodestaSelf - National Physical Laboratory
  • Joanne FlanaganSelf - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
  • William FludgateSelf - British Society of Scientific Glass Blowers
  • Graham MachinSelf - National Physical Laboratory
  • Michael PepperSelf
  • David SpiegelhalterSelf - University of Cambridge
  • James SumnerSelf - Manchester University
  • Robert TaylorSelf - Clarendon Laboratory
  • Dan CliftonDirector / Writer
  • Abigail AdamsProducer

 

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