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Time Machines: Lecture 1: In the Beginning... Moving through Time and Space

on BBC Two England

by Professor George Porter
The Royal Institution, London Annual Christmas Lectures to Young People

From birth we learn that our world contains objects of various sizes and shapes which exist in something we call space, and that the movement of these objects happens not only in space but also in a strange dimension called time. An amusing selection of miscellaneous objects move in bizarre ways to demonstrate what we know about time.

(to 18.15)

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Lecturer:
Professor George Porter
Presented for television by:
Alan Sleath

BBC Two England

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