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1 online resource (streaming video file) (51 min. 52 sec.) ; 313834546 bytes |
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Bestselling author-physicist Brian Green presents this lavishly computer-animated three-part documentary series. The final episode focuses on the M-theory. In 1995 Edward Witten, aided by others from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, revolutionised string theory by successfully uniting the five different versions into a single theory. This is the cryptically named M-theory, a development which required a total of 11 dimensions. The 11th dimension is different from all the others, since it implies that strings can come in higher dimensional shapes called membranes, or 'branes' for short. These have truly science-fiction-like qualities, since in principle they can be as large as the universe. (From the US, in English) (Final) |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-10-11 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: G |
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Big bang theory.
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Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
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Quantum theory.
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String models.
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New York (State) -- New York.
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Streaming video
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Cort, Julia, director
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Greene, Brian, host
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McMaster, Joseph, director
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