Summary: Presents 24 lectures (each 30 minutes in length) by professor and physicist S. James Gates, Jr., covering superstring theory, which attempts to explain all of the particles and fundamental forces of nature in one theory.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2006
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 530 SUP Part 1Call number: DVD 530 SUP Part 2
Greene, B. (Brian)
Summary: Relates the scientific story and the human struggle behind the search for the string theory--the ultimate theory which scientists believe is capable of describing all physical phenomena, large and small; and discusses how the theory is impacting human understanding of space and time.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2003
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 539.7258 GREKaku, Michio.
Summary: Introduces the most cutting-edge field in physics, superstring theory, and explains how scientists have been able to join the theroy of relativity and quantum mechanics to approach a theory of the universe.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.1 KAKSummary: Is our universe a minor event in an endless series of universes (or multiverses)? Today, scientists generally agree on the big bang origin of the universe fifteen billion years ago. But as we track the expansion backward, toward that moment of seeming creation, the details begin to blur. In this program, Stephen Hawking explores the difficulties in presenting a scientific explanation...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1997
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Summary: Physicist Brian Greene discusses the historical quest for a grand unified theory in physics which will reconcile quantum physics and general relativity, and considers the possibility that superstring theory may bring an end to that search.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2003
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ELEHawking, Stephen (Stephen W.)
Summary: Along with Caltech physicist Mlodinow (The Drunkard's Walk), University of Cambridge cosmologist Hawking (A Brief History of Time) deftly mixes cutting-edge physics to answer three key questions-- Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?-- and explains that scientists are approaching what is called "M-theory," a collection...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2010