[LEAPSECS] Hawking / PBS TV show about Time

[Tom Van Baak]

Slightly off-topic, but this may be of interest to some of you who aren't also on the time-nuts list.

Tonight, Wednesday evening (May 18) look for a TV show on National Geographic or PBS called "Genius by Stephen Hawking". Episode 1: Can We Time Travel?

I mention this because I may be in this episode, or at least my atomic clocks and car are in it. Last year a UK-based production company contacted me and I offered to help them by repeating the relativity experiment I did years ago on Mt Rainier.

This time we chose the summit of 9100 foot Mt Lemmon (near Tucson, AZ) and in January I drove down with all the clocks and equipment. The six-part Hawking series covers a wide variety of science topics and this atomic clock bit is just one small part, of one episode, of one series. Still, it was quite adventure.

PBS info here:
http://www.pbs.org/genius-by-stephen-hawking/episodes/episode-1/

Some background on the experiment:
http://LeapSecond.com/great2016a/

And more photos and technical information:
http://LeapSecond.com/great2016a/photos.htm

Thanks,
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