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The Key to the Cosmos

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Jim Al-Khalili shows how investigation into the atom unravelled the mystery of creation.

Jim Al-Khalili's documentary series about the building block of our universe, the atom. He shows how the mystery of the universe's creation was unravelled.

The second in Professor Jim Al-Khalili's three-part documentary about the basic building block of our universe, the atom. He shows how, in our quest to understand the tiny atom, we unravelled the mystery of how the universe was created. It's a story with dramatic twists and turns, taking in world-changing discoveries like radioactivity, the atom bomb and the big bang. All this forms part of an epic narrative in which the greatest brains of the 20th century competed to answer the biggest questions of all - why are we here and how were we made?

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The story of the groundbreaking scientific discovery that everything is made from atoms.

The story of the discovery that everything is made from atoms, one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs in history, and the brilliant minds behind it.

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