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1) Interstellar
Author
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.
2) Einstein
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by New Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of Albert Einstein and his fifteen-year battle to prove his Theory of General Relativity amid the violence of war and his tumultuous personal life.
3) Ice Princess
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
17-year-old physics whiz Casey Carlyle is urged by her physics teacher to work on a physics project over the summer for presentation to Harvard. Since Casey is an ice skater she decides on a project that will show the elements of physics applied in competitive figure skating. To better understand the principles she's using, she will have to become her own test subject. She decides that she wants to skate on the Nationals circuit, but has some very...
Publisher
Distributed by Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Stephen Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest question of all: Who or what created the universe in which we live? The groundbreaking series Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking combined cutting-edge computer graphics with Hawking's witty, distinctive and incisive world view. Now, the journey is taken a step further, as physics and cosmology become tools to answer questions that philosophers have struggled with for thousands...
Author
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Journey to parallel Earths with the iconic sci-fi series that thrilled fans for five gripping seasons. An unlikely group of travelers who encounter alternate versions of everything and everyone they once knew and loved as they attempt to take the one slide that will take them home.
9) The Marvels
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole, her powers are entangled with super-fan Kamala Khan, aka Ms. Marvel, and Carol's estranged niece, astronaut Captain Monica Rambeau. Together, this unlikely trio must team up and work together to save the universe." --container
10) Dimming sun
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
While global warming has been heating up the world, recently scientists were stunned to discover that the sun has actually been growing dimmer, with less and less sunlight reaching Earth's surface. NOVA unravels this baffling climate detective story.
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Carroll explains the subject of dark matter and dark energy in 24 lectures. He explains why scientists believe we live in a smooth, expanding universe that originated in a hot, dense state called the Big Bang. He describes the features of the infant universe that led to the large-scale structure we observe today. He takes you through the standard model of particle physics and shows how it provides the framework for understanding the interaction...
12) Ice princess
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age story in which a brainy, gawky teenage girl dreams of becoming a champion figure skater.
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], ©1995-©1997
Language
English
Description
Brilliant grad student Quinn Mallory has created a device that opens a wormhole to an infinite number of parallel universes where history has taken different paths, some subtly changed and other radically different. Quinn's test trip goes awry, stranding his physics professor, Arturo, his friend, Wade, and bystander Rembrandt in parallel San Francisco's, "sliding" from one alternate reality to another, unable to return home.
Publisher
History Channel
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), scheduled to go online in May 2008, is designed to boost protons to nearly the speed of light and crash them into one another, producing effects that can only be theorized and haven't existed since the first moments of the Universe's creation.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Physicist Brian Greene discusses the historical quest for a grand unified theory in physics which will reconcile quantum physics and general relativity, and considers the possibility that superstring theory may bring an end to that search. Based on his book of the same name.