My brother Clive sent me two excellent BBC documentaries:
'The Cell' and 'The Atom.' Both are outstanding.
 
The Atom really stretches the mind. Fascinating.
It is so, so good I would love you all to see it.
It really is mind-boggling - and very well done. Like an adventure story.
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Taking just one aspect of The Atom - the search for the definitive
particle...

*Maybe there isn't one!*
So far, as scientists find smaller particles, then even smaller ones pop
up - just appear 'out of nowhere' - literally, pop up out of nowhere - out
of what they thought was a total vacuum.

In my explorations I get the 'sensation' that there is not only, not, a
definitive particle, but there is not a definitive anything - we create
our reality as we go along.

If a scientist believes there is another level of particle, and searches
for it ardently enough, they will find it - because - their ardent search
will create it!

Taking this as a possibility, we could also use this approach to look at
the theory of infinite and parallel universes.

In one way, isn't it true - each one of us, being unique, live in a
different reality?

People live side by side and see the world in a totally different way -
and have totally different experiences - of the same event!
For instance, although both Semites, and base their religion on the bible,
Jews and Muslims seem to have almost opposite views on life?

Although sometimes very subtle, each one of us has a different experience
of life. Some people are very depressed at the state of the planet, and
some are delighted that it is falling apart - so it can come together in a
new way.

And even then - two different views: new level of consciousness, or
Agamemnon.

In a more gross way, if we take the outlook of the torturer; murderer;
corporate tobacco and fast food company executives who target children
with their poisonous products; pharmaceutical executives who knowingly
test their products on unsuspecting people - and sell drugs to one country
that are banned in other countries; people who cheer at events where
magnificent bulls are tortured and killed, and the killers idolised;
events where two people beat each other until one is knocked down; and so
on and so one - including all the people who are in the slightest involved
and even subtly supporting such events.
Don't these people seem as though they are a different species - living in
a different reality?

Aren't we all seeing, and thus living in different universes?
Some obvious, and some more subtle?
One person shouting a screaming at a serial killer, and another person
feeling their pain and wishing they could do something for the killer -
and for the person screaming and shouting?

Yet most people, most of the time do not realise how different we all
are/can be.

We do not respect each other.
We do not see that each person, in their one right, has the right to be
who they are.
We expect people to be the same as us, and think they are wrong or deluded
if they are not.

So just as a one-day experiment, imagine that each of us is living in a
parallel universe.
Although it looks as though we are all in the same dimension, let's
consider the possibility that it is not so - and see if we can take a look
at the world through the perspective of the other people.
If we do that, we may find ourselves being more sensitive - and caring to
and for our fellow beings.

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The discovery that everything is made from atoms has been referred to as
the greatest scientific breakthrough in history. As scientists delved deep
into the atom, they unravelled nature’s most shocking secrets and
abandoned traditional beliefs, leading to a whole new science which still
underpins modern physics, chemistry and biology, and maybe even life
itself. Nuclear physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of this
discovery and the brilliant minds behind the breakthrough.
The second part of 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 – a story with dramatic twists and turns, taking in
world-changing discoveries like radioactivity, the atom bomb and the Big
Bang, as the greatest brains of the 20th century competed to answer the
biggest questions of all.

The final part of Professor Jim Al-Khalili’s documentary series about the
basic building block of our universe, the atom. He explores how studying
the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself, discovers how
there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist
and finds out that ‘empty’ space isn’t empty at all. Al-Khalili shows how
the world we think we know turns out to be a tiny sliver of an infinitely
weirder universe than which we could have conceived. (Excerpt from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007vz5n

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In this three-part BBC series, Dr Adam Rutherford tells the extraordinary
story of the scientific quest to discover the secrets of the living cell.
The first part, The Hidden Kingdom, explores how centuries of scientific
and religious dogma were overturned by the earliest discoveries of the
existence of cells, and how scientists came to realise that there was,
literally, more to life than meets the eye.

The second part, The Chemistry of Life, episode explores how scientists
delved ever deeper into the world of the cell, seeking to reveal the magic
ingredient that can spark a bundle of chemicals into life. Their
discoveries have brought us to the brink of being able to create life for
ourselves.

The third and final part, The Spark of Life, reveals how our knowledge of
cells has brought us to the brink of one of the most important moments in
history. Scientists are close to repeating what has happened only once in
four billion years – the creation of a new life form.