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TV
The Elegant
Universe
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"The Elegant Universe," a three-hour NOVA miniseries with Brian Greene, funded in
part by the National Science Foundation, explores one of the most ambitious and
exciting theories ever proposed: the long-sought "theory of everything" that eluded
even Albert Einstein. String theory-also known as superstring theory-proposes that
the fundamental ingredients of nature are inconceivably tiny strings of energy, whose
different modes of vibration underlie everything that happens in the universe. The
theory successfully unites the laws of the large (general relativity) and the laws of
the small (quantum mechanics), breaking a conceptual logjam that has frustrated the
world's smartest scientists for nearly a century. All three hours of the series are available to watch online.
Visit "The Elegent Universe" Web site:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant
Credit: NOVA/WGBH-TV Boston http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova
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