Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

From Magna Carta to Microchip: Onwards to the Stars (1981x4)

Air date: Dec 31, 1981

The range of measurement now possible has enabled us to know not only the size of atoms only a few 100-millionths of a centimetre across, but also the distance of galaxies so far away that light travelling from them takes thousands of millions of years to reach us. Between these extremes we shall see how the scale of our everyday life fits intricately into the immensity of the universe.