中國科學革命
科學在過去數百年皆是最能推動社會改變的力量，當中不少進步也是來自純科學研究，皆在追求知識，非以應用價值為考慮。在此單元我們將介紹三位投身純科學研究的中國科學家，細看他們眼中的深空、深海以及原子世界：先回顧興建世上最大型、將能令人類已知脈衝星數目翻倍的無線電望遠鏡的艱巨過程，然後來見證建造位於南中國地底深處、敏感度足以測量次原子粒子質量的微中子探測器所面對的重重挑戰，最後我們將跟隨航海工程師兼潛水員闖進深海，一看他如何研發尖端新型潛艇，讓科學家能定期探索前人未至的深海水域。
Science is the driving force that’s changed society the most in the last few centuries. Many of these advances have come from pure science research, done simply in the pursuit of knowledge, without applications in mind. This is the story of three Chinese scientists who’ve devoted their lives to pure scientific research; looking deeper into the Cosmos, the ocean, and the atom. We reveal just what it took to build the world’s largest radio telescope; set to double the number of pulsars discovered in our galaxy. We follow the challenges of constructing the world’s most sensitive neutrino detector, deep underground in Southern China, that’s designed to measure the mass of these elusive subatomic particles. And we dive to the deep ocean with an aquanaut and marine engineer, who’s creating a new type of submarine for regular trips to the largely unexplored deep sea floor.
