In Evaporating Black Holes, narrator Kate Yule explores Stephen Hawking’s discovery that black holes can evaporate. Learn how Jeff Steinhauer creates an artificial black hole in an attempt to prove the existence of Hawking Radiation. If Hawking Radiation exists, then all black holes could eventually disappear, which means scientists would not be able to reconstruct past events, or predict future ones. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In From Emancipation to Convict Leasing, historian Lucy Worsley learns that although enslaved people were free after the Civil War, a new type of enslavement arose. If Black people were found guilty of even minor crimes, they ended in slavery of a new kind: convict leasing. Conditions were harsh and many people died. This video is excerpted from BBC's American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, in which Worsley reveals the myths and manipulations behind American history.
In Evaporating Black Holes, narrator Kate Yule explores Stephen Hawking’s discovery that black holes can evaporate. Learn how Jeff Steinhauer creates an artificial black hole in an attempt to prove the existence of Hawking Radiation. If Hawking Radiation exists, then all black holes could eventually disappear, which means scientists would not be able to reconstruct past events, or predict future ones. This video is excerpted from BBC’s Einstein & Hawking: Masters of Our Universe, a mind-bending documentary that tells the story of how the two most famous scientists of the 20th Century transformed our understanding of the Universe and changed the world.
In From Emancipation to Convict Leasing, historian Lucy Worsley learns that although enslaved people were free after the Civil War, a new type of enslavement arose. If Black people were found guilty of even minor crimes, they ended in slavery of a new kind: convict leasing. Conditions were harsh and many people died. This video is excerpted from BBC's American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley, in which Worsley reveals the myths and manipulations behind American history.