The Illusion of Reality

Synopsis

The final part of Professor Jim Al-Khalili's documentary series about the basic building block of our universe, the atom. He explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself, discovers how there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist and finds out that 'empty' space isn't empty at all. Al-Khalili shows how the world we think we know turns out to be a tiny sliver of an infinitely weirder universe than which we could have conceived.

Credits

Presenter

Jim Al-Khalili

Broadcasts

1. Thu 9 Aug 2007
   21:00
   BBC Four
2. Fri 10 Aug 2007
   01:05
   BBC Four
3. Fri 10 Aug 2007
   03:05
   BBC Four
4. Fri 17 Aug 2007
   00:00
   BBC Four
5. Fri 17 Aug 2007
   02:30
   BBC Four
6. Sun 23 Sep 2007
   02:00
   BBC Four
7. Thu 10 Jan 2008
   20:00
   BBC Four
8. Fri 11 Jan 2008
   02:10
   BBC Four
9. Mon 4 Feb 2008
   23:20
   BBC Two (except Wales, Wales (Analogue))
10. Tue 5 Feb 2008
    00:00
    BBC Two (Wales, Wales (Analogue) only)