BBC | Chemistry: A Volatile History | Ep 2 The Order of the Elements (6 of 6)

[Imperativism]

The majesty of the Big Bang, the brilliance of an evolving cosmos and the elegance of the chemical configuration of matter affirms to me that there is a God and the nature of God is embodied in the order of the universe.

[Youdumbkids]

Fuck I forgot how awesome chemistry is.

[RJL738]

The beautful irony about the discovery of what makes the atoms is the smallest particles were discovered first, the electron was discovered before the proton and the proton was discovered before the nuetron wich is slightly bigger. Science is a complicated process.

[XUnrealpkI]

PBS is the only shit worth watching in US tv. I can assure you

[cslewis623]

epic, great documentary. The best and most interesting documentary on the Periodic Tables of Elements ever. Don't stop making these documentaries BBC!

[777wallaby777]

j'en apprend plus ici qu'a l'école XD

[DrZenith]

@777wallaby777 Tout à fait d'accord avec vous; ce genre de série est fascinante et instructive. J'aimerais que de telles émissions soient diffusées dans des écoles.

[megamarko94]

What's the name of that machine he uses to measure the energy

[aljaesson]

what is this? a documentary that doesnt say that aliens told the egyptians everything about chemistry but their ancient knowledge was lost?? i must be too used to history channel documentaries

[Hopleet]

In what way is a video with a slutty sellout showing her butt related to this one? What is happening to the world?

[Crocodile138]

Thank you for uploading so wonderful videos!!!

[emmalicious2609]

I'm confused, he says there are definately only 92 elements but we have already found more than that and scientists think there are still more to find?

[necrocominon]

@emmalicious2609 actually, these are the 92 naturally occurring elements. Atoms with more than 92 protons are only made up in laboratories...

check out a documentary called "island of stability", from PBS Nova...it´s about building new elements...

[vulpecula999]

nobody makes documentaries like the BBC - perhaps if they didn't waste millions of pounds sending soccer "experts" on salaried holidays to Africa (first class travel, 5 star hotels, haute cuisine etc) they could afford to make some more

[picklezero]

This series is breathtaking with some of the facts i didn't have any idea about.

[redmatress]

Wonderful. When watching this I thought of how exciting a time it must of been to live through....scientifically speaking, the 19th and 20th century I mean....but then again with the LHC and such it looks like we could be luckier than the lot....something exceptional's gonna happen soon I think! =]

[CyberNeticRodent]

when will you post episode 3... i missed it on iplayer... :/

[myrmecophilous]

I love the BBC. Too bad american television is such mindless shit.

[HAPrime]

You beat me to it. This is why we have so many bad decisions in the US because so many of us are pig-ignorant.

[alanlaing]

@myrmecophilous check out The Secret Life of Chaos, with Prof. Jim Al-Khalili

[Birkirrey]

@myrmecophilous

People want to learn, there is no doubt about it. As long as you put things in layman terms and explain them with visible obvious experiments, people will understand and enjoy. Sadly American scientific shows do not take there audience seriously. They narrate their shows both with a voice and a theme of a an action movie trailer. Almost any scientific show on the history channel is a great example of this.

[LordBifford]

@myrmecophilous We have a lot of mindless shit too. You only see the good stuff because YouTube filters away our own crap.

[samgee2007]

@myrmecophilous ~please watch islamic channel al jazeerah for exiciting shows!

[CalgaryAlpineStyle]

@myrmecophilous

Well, the american television has Star Trek

[myrmecophilous]

@CalgaryAlpineStyle Not anymore.

[CalgaryAlpineStyle]

@myrmecophilous

Oh, I guess not.

I'm with you on this one.

[wanker4761]

@myrmecophilous I agree. Sad to say.

[parabat7]

@myrmecophilous Probably, along with the serious Bavarian channel, the best in the world at this kind of thing.

[rinchy100]

@parabat7

pbs has good documentaries, too

[Norman68623]

@myrmecophilous : In comparison to BBC, this applies to german television either. So sad. Stupid people require stupid programs. And stupid programs will stupidify the people. So only GB is in an upward spiral, wheres we get down. :-(

[AriseNow]

Thank you for this, there is nothing as inspiring as knowing the origins of our technology, and wondering what else is there to discover yet.

[puppeli]

thanks for posting this series,this is awesome, can't wait for the next episode! :D

[atthetopofmyvoice]

thanks for posting the latest.

[10mintwo]

The absolute pinnacle of scientific tv documentaries.

[1RadicalOne]

His animation of the nucleus looks like the animations from Cassiopeia project.

[Saukko31]

This is an wonderful series, looking forward to last episode.