Congratulations Tom,
I'm a lurker here and learn something every day. I'm also in Tucson and have
spent a lot of time on Mt. Lemmon so that hook is really cool.
My recorder is all set. Locally on PBS at 9PM.
Wes N7WS
On 5/17/2016 7:50 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote:
The TV show is tomorrow, Wednesday evening. 8/9 PM, or something like that.
Here are fresh web pages with background information, photos, and plots:
http://leapsecond.com/great2016a/
http://leapsecond.com/great2016a/photos.htm
I have no idea how minor my role is in the actual TV episode, but if nothing
else, the above two pages will share some time nuts sort of details of the
clock experiment itself. If you have any questions let me know.
/tvb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Van Baak" <t...@leapsecond.com>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com>
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 12:00 PM
Subject: [time-nuts] GENIUS by Stephen Hawking (PBS TV),with 5071A cesium clocks
Fellow time nuts,
Here in the US, a new six-part TV series on National Geographic / PBS starts next
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016. The title is "Genius by Stephen Hawking" and episode
1 is: Can We Time Travel?
Having not seen it yet, I can't make a promise of its "SNR" (Science to
Nonsense Ratio). It might be quite educational, or at least, very entertaining. And I'm
definitely going to watch it with my family.
So why do I mention this?
Well, I spent most of December 2015 and January 2016 working with the UK-based
producers of the show -- in order to pull off another Einstein 100th
anniversary, general relativity, cesium atomic clock, gravitational time
dilation experiment. The location chosen was 9000+ foot Mt Lemmon, near Tucson,
Arizona.
The Hawking series covers a wide variety of topics, and this atomic clock bit
is just one very small part. They were inspired by the DIY experiment I did (
http://leapsecond.com/great2005/tour/ ) and they wanted to create and film
something similar. So I offered to help. Scenes with (me? and) my 5071A cesium
clocks and hp 53132A / SR620 time interval counters are in episode 1.
The PR link to the episode is:
http://www.pbs.org/genius-by-stephen-hawking/episodes/episode-1/
Attached is a photo. I will post lots of technical info, plots, photos and FAQ
here next week:
http://leapsecond.com/great2016a/
/tvb
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