NOVA - Season 31 Episode 4
Part 2, "String's the Thing," opens with a whimsical scene in a movie theater in which the history of the universe runs backwards to the Big Bang, the moment at which general relativity and quantum mechanics both came into play, and therefore the point at which our conventional model of reality breaks down. Then it's string theory to the rescue as Greene describes the 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. Strings are truly tiny, being smaller than an atom by the same factor that a tree is smaller than the solar system. But, as Greene explains, they are able to combine the laws of the large and the laws of the small into a proposal for a single, harmonious theory of everything.
First Air Date : 1974-03-03
Last Air date : 2024-11-27
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
- Season 31 : Episode 12003-09-30
- Season 31 : Episode 22003-10-07
- Season 31 : Episode 32003-10-28
- Season 31 : Episode 42003-10-28
- Season 31 : Episode 52003-11-04
- Season 31 : Episode 62003-11-11
- Season 31 : Episode 72003-11-18
- Season 31 : Episode 82003-11-25
- Season 31 : Episode 92004-01-04
- Season 31 : Episode 102004-01-20
- Season 31 : Episode 112004-02-03
- Season 31 : Episode 122004-02-10
- Season 31 : Episode 132004-02-17
- Season 31 : Episode 142004-03-02
- Season 31 : Episode 152004-03-30
- Season 31 : Episode 162004-04-20
- Season 31 : Episode 172004-04-20
- Season 31 : Episode 182004-05-04
