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NOVA: The Illusion of Time

Time. We waste it, save it, kill it, make it. Watch Wednesday, Science & Nature Night, November 9, 2011 at 8pm.

Time. We waste it, save it, kill it, make it. The world runs on it. Yet ask physicists what time actually is, and the answer might shock you: They have no idea. Even more surprising, the deep sense we have of time passing from present to past may be nothing more than an illusion. How can our understanding of something so familiar be so wrong? In search of answers, Brian Greene takes us on the ultimate time-traveling adventure, hurtling 50 years into the future before stepping into a wormhole to travel back to the past. Along the way, he will reveal a new way of thinking about time in which moments past, present, and future—from the reign of T. rex to the birth of your great-great-grandchildren—exist all at once. This journey will bring us all the way back to the Big Bang, where physicists think the ultimate secrets of time may be hidden. You’ll never look at your wristwatch the same way again.

NOVA: Fabric of the Cosmos — The Illusion of Time
Watch Wednesday, Science & Nature Night, November 9, 2011 at 8pm.

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Fabric of the Cosmos

Just beneath the surface of our everyday experience lies a world we’d hardly recognize. Watch Wed, Nov. 2, 2011 at 8pm and Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 at 9pm on KCPT2.

Acclaimed physicist and host Brian Greene takes viewers on a mind-bending reality check and journey to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time and the universe. With each step, audiences discover that just beneath the surface of our everyday experience lies a world we’d hardly recognize — a startling world far stranger and more wondrous than anyone expected.

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Watch Wed, Nov. 2, 2011 at 8pm and Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 at 9pm on KCPT2.

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NOVA: Iceman Murder Mystery

He’s been dead for more than 5,000 years... Watch Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 8pm.

He’s been dead for more than 5,000 years — and been poked, prodded and probed by scientists for the last 20. Yet today, Otzi the Iceman, the famous mummified corpse pulled from a glacier in the Italian Alps nearly two decades ago, continues to keep many secrets. Now, through an autopsy like none other, scientists will attempt to unravel more mysteries from this ancient mummy, revealing not only the details of Otzi’s death, but an entire way of life. How did people live during Otzi’s time, the Copper Age? What did they eat? What diseases did they cope with? The answers abound miraculously in this one man’s mummified remains. Join NOVA to defrost the ultimate time capsule, the 5,000-year-old man.

NOVA: Iceman Murder Mystery
Watch Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 8pm.

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NOVA: Rat Attack

It blooms once every half-century spurring an explosion in the rat population. Watch Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 8pm.

Every 48 years, the inhabitants of the remote Indian state of Mizoram suffer a horrendous ordeal known locally as mautam. An indigenous species of bamboo, blanketing 30 percent of Mizoram’s 8,100 square miles, blooms once every half-century, spurring an explosion in the rat population that feeds off the bamboo’s fruit. The rats run amok, destroying crops and precipitating a crippling famine throughout Mizoram. NOVA follows this gripping tale of nature’s capacity to engender human suffering and investigates the botanical mystery of why the bamboo flowers with clockwork precision every half-century.

Airs Wednesday, August 3, 2011 at 8pm.

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