The Elegant Universe : String's the Thing
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Published
New York, N.Y. : Films Media Group, [2011], ©2003.
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eVideo
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English
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Films on Demand is distributed by Films Media Group for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Films Media Group on October 01, 2011.
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Title from distributor's description.
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This program opens with a whimsical scene in a movie theater in which the history of the universe trails 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. Then it's string theory to the rescue as physicist Bryan 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. As Greene explains, scientists are able, for the first time, to combine the laws of the large and the small into a harmonious theory of everything. But even with its success, as of the 1990s, physicists realized that the “strings” theory suffered from a pernicious flaw--there were five different versions. A new question was now on the rise: we have one universe, so shouldn't there be one theory of everything?
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9 & up.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
(20112003). The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing . Films Media Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)20112003. The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing. New York, N.Y.: Films Media Group.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing New York, N.Y.: Films Media Group, 20112003.
Harvard Citation (style guide)(n.d.). The elegant universe: string's the thing. New York, N.Y.: Films Media Group.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing Films Media Group, 20112003.
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| Last Update | 2024-08-18 05:40:46AM |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction to The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing (2:48) -- Sponsors: The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing (1:12) -- Conflicting Theories (2:47) -- Combining Quantum Mechanics and Einstein's Relativity (1:42) -- Very Large Objects (1:15) -- Very Small Objects (2:09) -- Which Theory Explains What? (2:41) -- Controversy of String Theory (2:20) -- Birth of String Theory (2:08) -- Susskind's Theory of Strings Rejected (2:26) -- Messenger Particles (2:31) -- theory of elementary particle physics (2:29) -- Massless Particle (3:28) -- Mathematical Anomaly (2:32) -- The Theory of Everything (2:40) -- String Theory in a Nutshell (3:36) -- Physics or Philosophy? (1:36) -- Understanding Extra Dimensions of Space (5:38) -- Shape in Extra Dimensions of Space (1:58) -- Constants and the Universe (2:16) -- Is String Theory Unraveling? (2:42) -- Additional Resources, Sponsors and Credits: The Elegant Universe: String's the Thing (2:19). | |
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