Science
43 public collections on Loreline.
Documentaries
- UndergroundWe live on a thin skin. Beneath it are voids that water spent millions of years dissolving, shafts people sank looking for salt and gold and coal, cities carved out of soft rock by populations hiding from armies, and a biosphere of microbes that may outweigh everything walking around up here. Below all of that is a planet we have never seen and never will, the deepest hole ever drilled reached twelve kilometres and stopped, which is not quite a third of the way through the crust, let alone the six thousand to the centre. Everything we know about the inside of the Earth we learned by listening to earthquakes. The underground is also where the record is kept: it buried Pompeii and preserved it, held Tutankhamun for three thousand years, and kept the oldest art anyone has found on walls that no daylight ever reached. This archive goes down through all of it, the caves, the mines, the digs, the tunnels, the life, the descent, the deep earth, and the underworld people imagined long before they could measure any of it.
- Chaos TheoryOrder hidden in disorder, the science of the butterfly effect. From Poincaré and Lorenz to fractals, strange attractors and the Mandelbrot set: how simple rules produce endless, beautiful unpredictability.
- DiamagnetismEvery ordinary substance, water, wood, glass, a frog, is very weakly repelled by a magnet. Anton Brugmans noticed it in a piece of bismuth in 1778; Michael Faraday proved in November 1845 that it is a property of all matter and gave it a name; and in 1997 Andre Geim floated a live frog on the strength of it. The 250-year story of the weakest form of magnetism, and of what people have built on it since.
- Deep-Sea ExplorationInto the abyss, the machines, explorers and creatures of the deep ocean, from HMS Challenger and the bathysphere to Alvin, the Titanic, hydrothermal vents and the ROVs mapping the sea floor today.
Segments
- Explorers & Expeditions
- Pioneers
- Corals, Seamounts & Canyons
- Chaos in Culture
- Strange Attractors
- Chaos in Nature
- Fractals & the Mandelbrot Set
- Under the Ice
- Bioluminescence
- Mapping the Abyss
- Hydrothermal Vents
- Life in the Abyss
- Machines
- Shipwrecks & the Titanic
- Butterfly Effect
- Logistic Map & Bifurcation
- Diamagnetic Therapy
- Superconductors
- Levitation
- Physicists & Laboratories
- Faraday
- Myth
- Secret Tunnels
- Tunnels
- Mining Disasters
- Lithium & Cobalt
- Gold Rush
- Mines
- Rock Churches
- Catacombs
- Tombs
- Archaeology
- Cave Art
- Cave Life
- Caving
- Caves
- Soil & Worms
- Earthquakes
- Geology