The Elegant Universe, Now Available Online

Photon Ghoul writes "PBS has made available online all three hours of the NOVA program on unified theory. Formats are QuickTime and RealVideo with each hour broken up into eight chapters each." I watched the whole thing, and while it's clearly for a lay audience (no math required), it was fun and informative. I was pleased to note that dissenting views on whether string theory was science were presented, and even brief discussion of what constitutes science.

Comments

Great Show

[strictnein]

Stumbled upon the show when it aired. As the post states it was a little basic in some parts, but they really lay string theory out. It was the first time I really felt like I had at least a little grasp of the subject.

The 3D animated scenes around the host were also quite good.

Superstring theory

[drivelikejehu]

Michio Kaku's Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension is a really fascinating introduction into some of the theoretical physics that looks promising to develop a grand unified theory.

Experiment is what counts

[mpn14tech]

Just remember, no matter how elegant the theory or fascinating this series is, it is just a theory. A big leap of faith. For it to be worth anything, there must be an experimentally verifiable result.

Personally, I hope we are getting close.

Re:BitTorrent links

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad none of those links seem to work... heres a few that work (direct torrent file links):

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Re:Download?

[Gherald]

The spaces are there because you chose "Plain Old Text" when you posted.

And third URL doesn't even work, so here are some working and proper links:

Part I

Part II

Part III

Re:BitTorrent links

[Anonymous Coward]

Argh just noticed the 3rd link is the one that doesnt work.. here fixed:

Part 3

Sorry about that.

Oh and just one more thing: If possible, still buy the DVD when it comes out, support PBS.. It comes out in january and im gonna buy it

Truly Excellent!

[Mister Transistor]

This was a superb series! I enjoyed it thoroughly, as did most of my colleagues.

I snagged the 3 episodes on my hand-dandy video capture box and mastered a DVD from them, compressing the 3 hours onto 1 DVD.

I'm glad they're making the whole thing available online; it makes me feel better about giving my buddy a copy of my DVD...

He missed the second episode - the series had such a loooong (2:48) introduction, he thought they were re-airing the 1st episode again and turned it off! I told him no - there were 2 different episodes aired back-to-back :)

All-in-all, while I agree it was a bit "lay" (non-technical) in nature, it did explain a few things I hadn't known about previously, so I did enjoy watching it.