During the filming of "The Elegant Universe" between August 2001 and April 2003, series coordinating producer Andrea Cross meticulously documented the production process with her still camera. Brian ...

Set in New York City, The Elegant Clockwork of the Universe chronicles the immediate days following a young woman, Mala Adou’s disappearance, and her boyfriend, Muhammad’s dogged drive to find her.

The accepted theory that the universe began evolving some 13.7 billion years ago from an infinitely dense and hot substance that has been expanding since the first extremely small fraction of a second ...

pt. 1. edge of knowledge -- ch. 1. Tied up with string -- pt. 2. Dilemma of space, time, and the quanta -- ch. 2. Space, time, and the eye of the beholder -- ch. 3. Of warps and ripples -- ch. 4.

Introduces string theory and shows how modern physics—composed of two theories that are ferociously incompatible—reached its schizophrenic impasse: One theory, general relativity, successfully ...