Alexander Vilenkin explores the idea of our universe coming from nothing. Just like a can of soda can quantum tunnel out of a vending machine and into your hand (if you wait long enough), so too can a whole Universe emerge from nothing.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop
A Universe From Nothing | Prof. Alexander Vilenkin | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2014-01-03 | A Universe From Nothing
Alexander Vilenkin explores the idea of our universe coming from nothing. Just like a can of soda can quantum tunnel out of a vending machine and into your hand (if you wait long enough), so too can a whole Universe emerge from nothing.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop
Music by Josh Woodward "Hollow Grove" http://www.joshwoodward.comIn the Absence of Experimentation | Prof. Alan Lightman | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2014-02-13 | In the Absence of Experimentation
Here we get to talk to Professor Alan Lightman from MIT as we delve into the philosophy of physics. Alan enlightens us on the growing gap between theory and experiment and some things physicists can do psychologically, if not experimentally, to bridge the growing divide.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop
Music by Josh Woodward "This Is Everything" http://www.joshwoodward.comString Theory and Particle Physics | Prof. Juan Maldacena | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2014-01-30 | String Theory and Particle Physics
Juan Maldacena, from the Institute for Advanced Studies, describes the discovery of "strings" in particle accelerators back in the 1960s and 1970s. These strings, which turned out to be made of chains of gluons, validated and encouraged the study of String Theory.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop
Music by Jason Shaw "River Meditation" http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jason_ShawSpace Is the Primary Reality | Professor Frank Wilczek | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2013-12-06 | Space Is the Primary Reality
Nobel-Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek talks about cleansing the doors of perception with our minds and imagination to glimpse the infinite. If fundamental fields are prevalent through all space, then space is the primary reality.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan WaldroopOur Place in an Infinite Universe | Alan Guth | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2013-11-14 | Professor Alan Guth talks about the vastness of the Universe and how he reconciles himself to his own finite existence.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan WaldroopThe Nature of Conceptual Revolutions | David Kaiser | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2013-11-06 | Professor David Kaiser talks about the history of physics and the conceptual revolutions that we don't see coming, specifically when Albert Einstein dismissed decades of work by physicists on the "luminiferous ether" by proposing it doesn't exist.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan WaldroopHow Technology Shapes Scientific Ideas | Peter Galison | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2013-10-28 | Professor Peter Galison compares the clock to the computer to illuminate how deeply technology can influence science.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan WaldroopWhat Was the Big Bang Really? | Paul Steinhardt | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2013-10-18 | Paul Steinhardt, Professor of Physics at Princeton, discusses the misleading nature of the title "the Big Bang" and explains how physicists know it was less of a "bang" and more of a "stretch."
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan WaldroopThe Fun is Just Beginning | Andrew Strominger | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2013-10-04 | Physicist Andrew Strominger explains why the fun is just beginning in the search to understand the fundamental laws of nature.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan WaldroopHow Weird is Reality? | Prof. Max Tegmark | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2013-09-25 | To illustrate just how weird reality is, Max Tegmark, Professor of Physics at MIT, discusses how intuition breaks down as we think about and investigate phenomena beyond the human scale.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan WaldroopDo We Live in the Matrix? | Professor Ken Olum | The Search for the Theory of EverythingToe Movie2013-09-19 | Do We Live in the Matrix?
Ken Olum, Research Professor at the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University, shares some thoughts on a theory that we may all be living inside a computer simulation run by an advanced civilization.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan WaldroopWhat is the Theory of Everything?Toe Movie2013-07-14 | We hit the streets to talk to the everyman about the Theory of Everything. Just what does he know? It turns out the Theory of Everything is pretty elusive.
Directed by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Produced by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop Director of Photography: Tristan Waldroop Edited by: Elizabeth Puccini, Tristan Waldroop