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The Elegant Universe

Reviews facts from the movie. You can read the movie transcript or watch the movie from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/

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Whose work on gravity in the 1700s unified the heavens and Earth?Isaac Newton
Whose theory of general relativity explained how gravity works?Albert Einstein
Who worked to unify electricity and magnetism in the 1800s?James Clerk Maxwell
What area of physics explains the behavior of subatomic particles using probability?Quantum Mechanics
Which physicist is said to have accidentally discovered the equation that explained the strong force, the equation which gave birth to String Theory?Gabriele Veneziano
Which physicist worked for months on String Theory in the 1960s, only to have his written work rejected and scoffed?Leonard Susskind
Which physicist combined the five existing versions of String Theory into one cohesive theory in the 1990s?Edward Witten
The most widely accepted model which explains three of the four fundamental forces in terms of force carrying messenger particles?The Standard Model
Which physicist published a "Theory of Everything" in November 2007?A. Garrett Lisi
Which pair of physicists came up with a "Theory of Everything" in the 1980s?Schwartz and Green
The term used to describe the situation where nonsensical answers are obtained from calculations.Mathematical Anomalies
National laboratory where experiments are being conducted to collect evidence of gravitons.Fermilab
Laboratory in Switzerland where a new accelerator is being built; this lab is competing with Fermilab.CERN
The massless particle that String Theory predicts.Graviton
The particle, predicted by String Theory that travels faster than the speed of light?Tachyons


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