NOVA - Season 31 Episode 5
Part 3 of "The Elegant Universe” with host Brian Greene shows how Edward Witten of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, aided by others, revolutionized string theory by successfully uniting the five different versions into a single theory that is cryptically named "M-theory," a development that requires a total of eleven dimensions. Ten...eleven...who's counting? But the new 11th dimension implies that strings can come in shapes called membranes, or "branes" for short. These have truly science fiction-like qualities, since in principle they can be as large as the universe. A brane can even be a universe—a parallel universe—and we may be living on one right now.
First Air Date : 1974-03-03
Last Air date : 2024-11-27
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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- 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