Chasing Particles - S2.E6

Tinkering with the unseen can have dangerous consequences. As lightning flickers over St. Petersburg, a 19th-century physicist attempts to harness electricity. In an ultra-secret lab, a Canadian scientist brings a dangerous nuclear reactor to the edge of annihilation as part of the Manhattan Project; and, as an astronomer observes distant star formations in the darkest lab on earth, he is suddenly struck by a mysterious illness.