The Elegant Universe

One of the most ambitious and exciting theories ever proposed—one that may be the long-sought "theory of everything," which eluded even Einstein—gets a masterful, lavishly computer-animated explanation from bestselling author-physicist Brian Greene, when NOVA presents the nuts, bolts, and sometimes outright nuttiness of string theory.

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Ended

Original Name

The Elegant Universe

First Air Date

October 28, 2003

Last Air Date

November 4, 2003

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Episodes

Language

English

Production Companies

NOVA

Networks

PBS

S01E03

Welcome to the 11th Dimension

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.

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