One of the most ambitious and exciting theories ever proposed—one that may be the long-sought "theory of everything," which eluded even Einstein—gets a masterful, lavishly computer-animated explanation from bestselling author-physicist Brian Greene, when NOVA presents the nuts, bolts, and sometimes outright nuttiness of string theory.
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Air Date: 2003-10-28
Introduces string theory and shows how modern physics—composed of two theories that are ferociously incompatible—reac...
Air Date: 2003-10-28
Opens with a whimsical scene in a movie theater in which the history of the universe runs backwards to the Big Bang, ...
Air Date: 2003-11-04
Edward Witten of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, aided by others, revolutionized string theory by successfu...