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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.
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- verified Status: Returning Series
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- calendar_month Release Date: 2003-11-04
- video_camera_front Companies GBH
- tag Season: Season 31
- timer Episode Runtime: 55 Mins
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Brian Greene
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Julia Cort
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Joseph McMaster
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