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• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Charlie Rose, Inc.
• DVD Release Date: August 15, 2006
• Run Time: 57 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000HBL2EA

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Lemonick Big Bang section, February 5, 2008

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Charlie Rose with Tim McCarver; Martin Smith; Michael Lemonick (October 7, 2003) (DVD)

Michael Lemonick the Time Science Editor and a frequent guest of Charlie Rose discusses his new book on the Big Bang. The book focuses on the discovery of the Cosmic Background Radiation which enabled precise dating of the Age of the Universe. He describes how the Wilkinson team worked to discover the background radiation, and how they were surprised when two Bell Lab researchers Penzias and Wilson were the first to discover it. Lemonick talks also about how the Universe can now be precisely dated as 13.7 billion years old. He relates the great Age of the Universe to the Copernican revolution and sees it as part of the process of disabusing Mankind of its notion that it is at the center of the Cosmos.
As I understand it his book also gives a great part to describing the whole development of exploration of the Cosmos in the past century, and too on the human drama and personality conflicts involved.