Sunday, September 10, 2006

The Elegant Universe

This documentary takes us on beautiful journey through modern physical theories and on the quest for final theory of everything.
The host is Brian Greene, author of Book with same title and contents. Great book by the way.
It explains some things that are hard to imagine. It explains why the world of small and world of big are so different and what is wrong with quantum mechanic and theory of relativity.
The string theory is explained from the birthday to modern days. We can follow the evolution of string theory, how and why were there five of them and to their conjunction to M theory. We meet the author of M theory that tells us what he has done. Eleven dimensions are explained. Where they are and why we need them. We also find out why are string so small, how should they look like and why they are. At the and the (mem)branes are also explained. It is shown why and how could there be more parallel universes. And what could be the Big Bang.

You can watch whole series free online here.

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