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Episode Details: Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold
Absolute Zero: The Conquest of Cold
Series: NOVA
Season: Season 35
Episode Number: 8
Air Date:
Duration: 55 min
Our mastery of cold is something we take for granted, whether it s air conditioning and frozen food or the liquefied gases and superconductivity at the heart of cutting-edge technology. But what is cold? How do you achieve it, and how cold can it get? This two-part NOVA special brings the history of this frosty fascination to life with brilliant dramatic recreations of high moments in low-temperature research and the quest for ever-lower notches on the thermometer. The first hour, The Conquest of Cold, opens in the 1600s when the nature of cold and heat was a complete mystery. Were they different aspects of the same phenomenon? The experiments that settled these questions helped stoke the Industrial Revolution.
Cast and Guests
Neil Ross
NarratorStreaming Platforms for NOVA
