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Colour: The Spectrum of Science
我们生活在一个色彩斑斓的世界。 彩虹和热带雨林，海洋和人类，地球是我们所知道的最丰富多彩的地方。 但我们看到的颜色远比它们看起来的复杂和迷人。 在这个系列中，Helen Czerski 博士揭示了颜色是什么，它是如何工作的，以及它是如何书写我们星球的故事的——从将沉闷的岩石球变成生动的宝石的颜色，到生命赖以生存的颜色 并茁壮成长。 但故事并没有就此结束——还有我们看不到的颜色，那些在彩虹之外的颜色。 每个人都有一个引人入胜的故事要讲。
In the first episode, Helen seeks out the colours that turned planet Earth multicoloured. To investigate the essence of sunlight Helen travels to California to visit the largest solar telescope in the world. She discovers how the most vivid blue is formed from sulphur atoms deep within the Earth's crust and why the presence of red ochre is a key sign of life. In gold, she discovers why this most precious of metals shouldn't even exist on the surface of the planet and in white, Helen travels to one of the hottest places on Earth to explore the role salt and water played in shaping planet Earth.
The raw, early Earth had plenty of colour, but that was nothing compared with what was going to come next. That canvas was about to be painted with a vast new palette - and the source of those colours was life. Green is the colour of the natural world and yet it's the one colour that plants have evolved not to use.
The colours that we see are only a fraction of what's out there. Beyond the rainbow there are colours invisible to our eyes. In this episode, Dr Helen Czerski tells the story of scientific discovery. To see the universe in a whole new light, Helen takes to the skies in a NASA jumbo jet equipped with a 17-tonne infrared telescope.
