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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 7 sec.) ; 314921430 bytes |
| Summary |
Bestselling author-physicist Brian Green presents The Elegant Universe, a lavishly computer-animated three-part documentary series. Tonight's episode opens with a whimsical scene in a movie theatre in which the history of the universe is run backwards to the big bang, the moment at which general relativity and quantum mechanics both come into play - and therefore the point at which our conventional model of reality breaks down. Greene describes the serendipitous steps that led from a forgotten 200-year-old mathematical formula to the first glimmerings of strings - quivering strands of energy whose different vibrations give rise to quarks, electrons, photons, and all other elementary particles. (From the US, in English) (Part 2) |
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Closed captioning in English |
| Event |
Broadcast 2010-10-04 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
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General relativity (Physics)
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Quantum theory.
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String models.
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Streaming video
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Greene, Brian, host
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Hickman, David, director
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McMaster, Joseph, director
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