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Season 2016 · Episode 2
Landed Wed, 23 Mar 2016 · 16:00 your time · 1 episode · 1h 0m
Season 2016, Episode 2 of Horizon aired Wednesday, 23 March 2016 at 8pm UK time on BBC iPlayer.
- S2016E02Project Greenglow - The Quest for Gravity ControlThe story of an extraordinary scientific adventure - the attempt to control gravity. For centuries, the precise workings of gravity have confounded the greatest scientific minds, and the idea of controlling gravity has been seen as little more than a fanciful dream. Yet in the mid 1990s, UK defence manufacturer BAE Systems began a groundbreaking project code-named Greenglow, which set about turning science fiction into reality. On the other side of the Atlantic, Nasa was simultaneously running its own Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project. It was concerned with potential space applications of new physics, including concepts like 'faster-than-light travel' and 'warp drives'. Horizon explores science's long-standing obsession with the idea of gravity control. It looks at recent breakthroughs in the search for loopholes in conventional physics and examines how the groundwork carried out by Project Greenglow has helped change our understanding of the universe.
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