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TED talk on string theory

New.White.Socks · 2010-01-20 22:41:57

I watched what I thought was an extremely interesting talk by Brian Greene on string theory. Having only studied physics at second level, and reading the odd popular science book I found his way of talking about it to be incredibly accesible and interesting.…

20-01-2010 10:41pm

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I watched what I thought was an extremely interesting talk by Brian Greene on string theory. Having only studied physics at second level, and reading the odd popular science book I found his way of talking about it to be incredibly accesible and interesting.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/brian_greene_on_string_theory.html

I'm dying to know what the results of the experiment were (perhaps not dying, considering I haven't made any attempt to find out!). I read a bit about it at the time, although I tried to avoid the 'end of the world' rubbish. Have the researchers come to any important conclusions?

By the way, if anyone isn't familiar with TED you should really have a look around the website. Countless brilliant talks on all kinds of subjects.

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