looks interesting
Posted: Mon 10 Jan 2011 6:33 pm
Horizon: What Is One Degree?
Comedian Ben Miller used to be a physicist. So if you want to know all about novel quantum effects in low temperature misoscopic quasi zero dimensional electron systems (the title of his PhD), he's your man. But the simple scientific question "what is temperature?" has floored him and in an accessible, entertaining way he tries to define just what is one degree. Channelling his inner boffin, he starts by making a thermometer that uses not fahrenheit or centigrade but "the Miller scale".
Monday 10 January
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 West
Comedian Ben Miller used to be a physicist. So if you want to know all about novel quantum effects in low temperature misoscopic quasi zero dimensional electron systems (the title of his PhD), he's your man. But the simple scientific question "what is temperature?" has floored him and in an accessible, entertaining way he tries to define just what is one degree. Channelling his inner boffin, he starts by making a thermometer that uses not fahrenheit or centigrade but "the Miller scale".
Monday 10 January
9:00pm - 10:00pm
BBC2 West
I really think he could do with an automatic station instead of climbing up a ladder on his roof in all weathers 
OTOH maybe he likes doing it - he seemed happy enough