BBC: Atom: The Illusion of Reality

BBC DOCUMENTARY :ATOM - The illusion of reality:

In 1912 ,In the Hot Air Balloon about three miles above the ground was an austrain scientist called Victor Hess who made an astonishing discovery in Science. Up there Victor found incredible rays of energy coming from outer space. It was so powerful than any other radiation ever seen before. They were called Cosmic rays. At the same time in the earth scientists were studying about powerful radiations pouring out from the interior of the atoms , called as radioactive rays. The mysterious rays form vast emptiness of space and mysterious rays from deep within the atoms. No one thought there would be connections between the two. But a mind blowing discovery was made, saying there are connections between the cosmic rays and the radioactive rays within the atoms. This revolutionized science. Everyone should take a look at this amazing documentary.

Professor Jim Al-Khalili's documentary series about the basic building block of our universe, the atom.  Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself, encountering ideas that seem like they are from science fiction but in fact are a central part of modern science. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist and finds out that empty space is not empty at all, but seething with activity.  The world we think we know - the solid, reassuring world of our senses - turns out to be a tiny sliver of an infinitely weirder and more wonderful universe than we had ever conceived in our wildest fantasies.