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THE CHALLENGE: TO BUILD THE FASTEST ROUND-THE-WORLD YACHT (T173/02V)
工程夢想:世界最大雙體帆船
Pete Goss’s ‘Team Philips’ was a catamaran built to an ultra-radical, high-tech design, and was supposed to be the fastest ever round-the-world yacht. This programme tells the story of the design, the problems, and the eventual loss of Pete Goss’s catamaran. What went wrong in the design stages, and what were the problems of developing ground-breaking technology with a small team?
打破傳統帆船設計的 「菲利浦斯隊號」 雙體船，是世界上最快和最大的環球帆船，船長彼得高斯帶領隊員參加新世紀的環球帆船比賽。數次的試航中，他們遇到不同的困難，雖然菲利浦斯隊號在最後的試航中遇上風暴沉沒，但這次的經驗卻令他們有另一番的體會。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
THE PHYSICAL WORLD (S207)
物理世界
This eight-part series offers a broad and accessible introduction to physics, emphasizing the basic principles of the subject and their astonishing breadth of application. From the microscopic domain of electrons and atoms to the cosmic realm of planets, stars and galaxies, these authoritative learning programmes give a lively and essential view of the physical world.
本系列著重物理學的應用，以個別的主題介紹物理學其實與我們的生活是息息相關的。
1. A LIFE OF TIME (S207/01V)
時間與空間
Time seems to rules our lives, but what are the rules that govern time? Did you know that time had a beginning and might have an end or that time moves faster on the second floor of a building than on the first? From its incredible beginning to its uncertain fate, this is the story of time. It's a journey through the theory of relativity, a theory that made Albert Einstein into the most famous scientist of the 20th century.
科學家相信宇宙大爆炸發生後才出現空間和時間。本節目探討愛因斯坦提出有關時間和空間是可以轉換的創新理論。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
2. THE SEARCH FOR REALITY (S207/02V)
量子力學：追求現實
Is the moon there when you are not looking at it? What is reality? These are some of the questions posed by quantum mechanics, one of the great scientific achievements of the 20th century. In the world of quantum mechanics all is not as it seems and this has profound implications for both scientists and philosophers. It's a theory Einstein could never accept, but was he right to think quantum physics was wrong?
愛因斯坦多年來奮力反駁此理論，但量子力學是被認為有史以來最震撼的科學理論。若世上沒有量子力學，我們日常生活視為理所當然的東西如無線電話、唱碟機和電腦便不會存世。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
30 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
3. THE MOTHER OF ALL COLLISIONS (S207/03V)
碰撞定律：動量與能量
The latest experiment to break atomic particles apart will cost over $6 billion. More than 2,000 scientists from ever corner of the globe will work on it and in complexity and collaboration it dwarfs the achievement of putting a man on the moon. All this to answer a simple but profound question: what makes things heavy? But what has all this got to do with the design of airbags and seat belts? Find out as we reveal the fundamental law that connects all collisions big and small, from passengers to particle physics.
科學家於日內瓦的歐洲粒子物理研究所，籌備自宇宙大爆炸以後最大的碰撞實驗。原子粒子會撞碎，世上最小的物質有待發現。本節目探討物理定律如何應用在日常生活中。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
4. MAIDEN FLIGHTS (S207/04V)
處女航：飛行的機本原理
Could you fly a helicopter? Have you got 'the right stuff?' Marie and Tracy dispatch helicopter ambulances. Now they are going to find out if they can fly one as we challenge these women to take the controls on their maiden flights. Discover with our novice pilots the science that get a helicopter in the air and keeps it there. Find out what happens as Marie and Tracy put theory into practice, as we live the experience of hovering above the ground in a ton of metal.
了解飛行的科學原理，對乘客來說是有用的知識，但對機師來說卻是生死尤關。本節目介紹直升機升降的原理讓觀眾更深入了解物理原理的應用。中文字幕。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
5. WAVING NOT DROWNING (S207/05V)
「波」濤洶湧：無形的波
The small Cornish fishing village of Looe (UK) is the picturesque backdrop to a story of two fishermen and the physics they rely on. Economic pressures have driven more fishermen to use new fishing techniques like pair-trawling, where communication between the boats is crucial, and the fishermen's livelihoods depend on it. Even small boats now carry a bewildering array of gadgets, radio, GPS and radar that rely on the physics of electromagnetic waves. This programme challenges two pair-trawling captains to turn off their electronics gadgets and try the old methods of keeping in touch.
英國最危險的行業竟然是捕漁業。漁民除了被一片汪洋包圍外，還被另一片無形波包圍：雷達和無線電是兩種漁民依靠的無形波。本節目介紹無線電、雷達和全球定位系統的發明。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
28 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
6. THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING CHIP (S207/06V)
神奇的微型晶片
Fifty years ago, physicists made the first semiconductor transistor and won the Nobe Prize. Today, millions of these transistor switches are shrunk down into the microprocessors that are found in computers, mobile phones and almost everything else electrical. This programme talks to Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel, and originator of Moore's Law, the rule of thumb that says processor power doubles every eighteen months. The computer industry has managed to keep Moore's Law going for nearly 30 years. But time may be up for the chip: its predicted that silicon will run out of steam as early as 2012. By then, the fundamental physical limit will be reached and a radical new technology will be need.
微型晶片由數百萬小晶體管開關組成，要處理資料開關必需迅速轉換，晶體管的功能正是如此。自1947年晶體管在美國貝爾電話公司研究所誕生，微型晶片的發展一日千里。本節目探討發明微型晶片的科學以及它的不斷縮小工程學。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
28 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
7. MAGNETIC FIELD IN SPACE (S207/VC1/02)
太空磁場
Finding an explanation for the phenomenon known as the Northern Lights is the lynchpin of this programme about the Earth's magnetic field. The answer encompasses both an excursion into plasmas - seas of charged particles - and also a look at the interaction of the solar wind with the Earth's magnetic field.
地球上大氣層含有等離子體(電漿)而等離子體又是什麼？本節目探討磁場和等離子體的應用及基本定律，說明帶電粒子如何回應電場和磁場。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
24 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
8. NEWTON'S REVOLUTION (S207/VC2/05)
牛頓力學定律
The world is revolving, so how come if you jump up you don't land somewhere else? Two academics guide the viewer away from the intuitive reasoning of the ancient Greeks to the scientific methods of Galileo and Newton. Professional actors perform three short historical dramas to show how explanations of 'the motion of objects' evolved from the age of Aristotle to the era of Galileo and Newton.
宇宙的邏輯定律教先賢大傷腦筋。從哲學家柏拉圖與亞里士多德，錯誤了接近二千年曾被當作為不可動搖的理論，直至物理學及天文學家伽利略推翻了先哲的學說，建立了落緩定律。他們不斷的探究成為偉大物理學家牛頓的力學定律的依歸。英文發音，配上中文字幕。
29 mins.
English with Chinese Subtitles
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