The Story of Electricity preview - BBC Four
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Uploaded by BBC on Jun 20, 2011
Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the electrifying story of our quest to master nature's most mysterious force. In this clip Jim recreates an early electrical experiment, shows how Maxwell's theory of electromagnetic waves was correct before finally zapping himself with thousands of volts using a Tesla Coil.
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@deadapostle I'm not a man. :P
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@TheMasteratLink Wow that was a long time ago. It went well - I'm in university now! Youtube, meet the story of my life. I've got a physics midterm in 3 weeks *chuckles*
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@DyingxToxLivexAgain So how did that Physics final go?
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@DyingxToxLivexAgain How did you do on the Physics final, man?
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am I hearing sympathy for the devil? ...
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@Novamute1 the rolling stones
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@LewisAM37 That's exactly what a muslim jihadist fart loving trickster would say
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@TheElizabeth12395 Your mom's so much fun.
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'as the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body' - Jim Al-Khalili
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Professor Al-Khalili? Why should I believe him and how do I know that this isn't just a muslim terrorist plot to persuade me to electrocute myself?
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I'm not procrastinating from studying for my Physics final in 2 days :D I'm reviewing Electricity! Haha.
DyingxToxLivexAgain 8 months ago 46
:D physics is so much fun
TheElizabeth12395 8 months ago 20