What is the coldest thing in the world? - Lina Marieth Hoyos
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The coldest materials in the world aren’t in Antarctica or at the top of Mount Everest. They’re in physics labs: clouds of gases held just fractions of a degree above absolute zero. Lina Marieth Hoyos explains how temperatures this low give scientists a window into the inner workings of matter, and allow engineers to build incredibly sensitive instruments that tell us more about the universe.
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Meet The Creators
- Educator Lina Marieth Hoyos
- Director Jelena Oroz
- Narrator Pen-Pen Chen
- Animator Jelena Oroz
- Designer Jelena Oroz
- Character Designer Jelena Oroz
- Producer Draško Ivezić
- Content Producer Gerta Xhelo
- Editorial Producer Alex Rosenthal
- Associate Producer Bethany Cutmore-Scott, Elizabeth Cox
- Script Editor Eleanor Nelsen
- Fact-Checker Brian Gutierrez
