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The Fabric of the Cosmos [Blu-Ray]

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In this popular PBS mini-series Nova: the Fabric of the Cosmos, renowned physicist and author Brian Greene tells us that "lying just beneath everyday reality is a breath-taking world where much of what we perceive about the universe is wrong". He tells us that empty space is in fact not empty. It is substantial. It bends, twists, and interacts with objects in it to form curvatures, which is responsible for what Isaac Newton called gravity. Contrary to popular belief that time is like a river flowing inexorably from the past to the future, time, according to Brian Greene, is actually a stack of infinite number of frozen slices of reality; one experiences reality from one slice to another as he ages and dies, and the past, present, and future exist simultaneously. Brian Greene introduces to the viewers the strange world of atoms, electrons, and sub-atomic particles, where a particle can be at more than one place at the same time. In this world governed by quantum mechanics, a particle exists in a "probability wave" and has no fixed position until it is looked at by an observer, and an event that happens in one place determines the outcome of another over long distance through "entanglement", as if space-time does not exist between them. Lastly, he proposes that there might be exact duplicates of you and me and everybody else in a parallel universe exactly like ours. According to Brian Greene, our universe might be just one among an infinite number of universes floating like bubbles in a forever expanding "multiverse". Brian Greene has done a marvelous job explaining an immensely complicated subject in the simplest terms. Don't miss out on this thought provoking series.

An interesting view of the size of the universe. The reality of how small humanity is , in respect to the enormity of matter. Are we alone - Not Likely

Je ne me considère pas comme étant une personne stupide et je regarde une tonne de documentaires. Par contre, j'avais vraiment de la difficulté avec la science derrière la physique quantique. Cette série m'a enfin permis de comprendre.

Le sujet est très bien vulgarisé et imagé sans jamais prendre son public pour des idiots. Les images CGI sont très bien faites et le présentateur (Brian Greene) fait un excellent travail. L'éventail de sujet est aussi très interressant (l'espace, le temps, la physique quantique et les "univers" multiples).

Je vais continuer à regarder ce que NOVA (la production) nous offre comme produit car The fabric of the cosmos est un produit extra-rdinaire, bien au delà de mes attentes.

note: Documentaire en anglais seulement

Brian Greene provides a great overview in an easy to understand laymans terms.
Great Service from the sender, quick and clean book.
This is a must for all amateur back yard astronomers who are exploring the heavens and asking why??.

Great vulgarisation of a complex and enlightening subject. I understood part of it. People with more knowledge of that science (like one of my friend physicist) knew what the author was talking about and he expanded the presentation for me.

Very educational and informative. A lot of progress has been made to understand the cosmos but realized also there is still a lot to be discovered.

A very informative and enjoyable film on Quantum mechanics - among other interesting aspects of the universe(s). Brian Greene is very clear, uses excellent examples, and his explanations are relatively easy to grasp. A great addition to his book The Elegant Universe. If you are trying to understand string theory, multiverse, quantum mechanics and so forth, this dvd is a very helpful guide - one that is visually spectacular as well - especially in blue ray.