The Elegant Universe

[frogmarch]

You can watch the Nova 3-hour miniseries, The Elegant Universe, free online.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html

I'm up to chapter 5 of 8 of Hour 2 (String's the Thing). Scroll down to see the chapter titles in each segment.

This is just what I was hungry for today. I couldn't get "What caused the Big Bang?" off my mind.

An exceptional program. :thumbsup:

[Finder]

1. Good series...

you must have popped into R/T today.

[azmouse]

2. PBS has some amazing programs!

Just watched one today on the possibility of life on other planets. Outstanding!

[Beelzebud]

3. The Elegant Universe is a great program.

I'm going to buy the book soon, just to delve in deeper. :)

[derby378]

4. Saw it a few months ago - very well done

As for string theory itself (now known as M-theory), it still has some problems, one of them the lack of any direct evidence. But it's a neat theory nonetheless.

[Fox Mulder]

5. Ooohhh...I love the book.

Never seen the miniseries.

Now I have something to do over the weekend. :)

Thanks for posting this. :hi:

[Ready4Change]

7. I liked the book better than the miniseries.

Not that the miniseries wasn't good. It's just that the book brought up so many new lines of thought in me that I needed to stop, ponder them, and reassemble my mental pictures before reading on. No time to do that while watching a show on TV. (No Tivo here :( )

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. I loved the book too

it is wonderful

and the PBS program was awesome