Einstein's Refrigerator

Introduction: the ruler, the clock and the thermometer. Part 1 37: constant temperature; into the Sahara; into the Antarctic; when things go wrong; shocks from heat. Part 2 Measure for measure: the first sparks; the thermometer's four inventors; the country from Massachusetts; steam power; thermodynamics' three laws; entropy and life. Part 3 Reading the earth: Copernicus's harmony; the minister, the lawyer and the fossil fish expert; cycles of ice; the tundra's bloom; El Nino, old and new; greenhouse effect - the basic science; greenhouse effect - the history; greenhouse effect - the politics. Part 4 Life in the extremes: Barton and Beebe's bathysphere; clambake 1 - hydrothermal vents; some like it hot; snowball earth; the third branch of life; melting the earth; extraterrestrial life; life under two miles of ice. Part 5 Messages from the sun: at the core; cosmic gall; a thermal aside - Gamow, Rutherford and nuclear barriers; a star is born; black holes and little green men; the founding elements - hydrogen and helium; three-degree photons, two-degree neutrinos; the big bang and the big crunch. Part 6 The quantum leap: Faraday's perfect gases; the last liquid; superconductivity; duality, exclusion and uncertainty; the low-temperature world; Einstein's refrigerator; Chandra's journey; into the future.