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Double Bill: Thursday 13 December 2007 midnight-2am
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This two-part scientific detective tale tells the story of a remarkable group of pioneers who wanted to reach the ultimate extreme: absolute zero, a place so cold that the physical world as we know it doesn't exist, electricity flows without resistance, fluids defy gravity and the speed of light can be reduced to 38 miles per hour.
Each film features a strange cast of eccentric characters, including: Clarence Birds Eye; Frederic 'Ice King' Tudor, who founded an empire harvesting ice; and James Dewar, who almost drove himself crazy by trying to liquefy hydrogen.
Absolute zero became the Holy Grail of temperature physicists and is considered the gateway to many new technologies, such as nano-construction, neurological networks and quantum computing. The possibilities, it seems, are limitless.
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1. THE CONQUEST OF COLD
Thursday 13 December midnight-1am
The bizarre story of how one court magician's use of alchemy made a King shiver.
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2. THE RACE FOR ABSOLUTE ZERO
Friday 14 December 1am-2am (Thursday night)
Could the future become a strange quantum world as physicists get within a few millionths of a degree of this absolute zero?
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