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"Matters of Scale" Part 1 - Extremes of Scale

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Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
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Professors Pedro Ferreira and Alan Barr explain what scale means to them, from particle physics to the visible universe. At the subatomic level, gravity has a surprisingly large effect and particles are so small that they have no size.
But at the level of the universe, the speed of light is the only sensible measurement.

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Series
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks
People
Alan Barr
Pedro Ferreira
Chris Lintott
Keywords
education
research
scale
astrophysics
cosmology
particle physics
universe
ATLAS
LHC
CERN
light year
gravity
light
quark
dark matter
Department: Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS)
Date Added: 08/10/2014
Duration: 00:08:19

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