Summary: Is M theory Einstein's elusive "theory of everything"? In this program, visionary physicists Neil Turok, of Cambridge University; Burt Ovrut, of the University of Pennsylvania; Paul Steinhardt, of Princeton University; and others theorize on a revolutionary cosmology that explains what happened at the Big Bang-and in the process posit a continuum in which our universe is but one bubble among an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: To walk around with Murray Gell-Mann is to see the world through the keen eyes of a scientist. Gell-Mann, by temperament, approaches elementary particle physics from the point of view of a naturalist. We owe to him the discovery in 1952 of the quantity in theoretical physics called "strangeness. In 1969, he received the Nobel Prize for work that led to the discovery of "quarks. In this program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: The origins of the cosmos are shrouded in the distant past. But new discoveries may emerge in a place that is just as dark and obscure-buried, in fact, under 100 meters of Swiss bedrock. This program goes inside the massive research facility known as CERN to follow work undertaken with its Large Hadron Collider. Viewers learn about an experiment that forces sub-atomic particles to crash into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: What is everywhere, not made of atoms, and can't be seen? Dark matter, says renowned astrophysicist David Spergel-but not everyone in the cosmological community is in agreement with him. This program presents the views of Spergel and other key figures in the debate, including Princeton University's P. James Peebles and Jeremiah Ostriker; Timothy Sumner, of Imperial College London;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This clever animated biography of Albert Einstein incorporates photos and quotes into a lively overview of the physicist's life and ideas. Careful attention is given to how Einstein reconciled conventional velocity addition with the constant speed of light and how he arrived at his special and general theories of relativity. His most famous equation, E=mc2, is derived in four simple steps. The...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005