The elegant universe
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | What Einstein didn't know yet |
| Original title | The Elegant Universe |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 180 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joseph McMaster , Julia Cort |
| script | Joseph McMaster , Julia Cort |
| production | Joseph McMaster , Julia Cort , David Hickman , Andrea Cross , Paula Apsell |
| music | Ed Tomney |
| camera | Mike Coles |
| cut | Dick Bartlett , Jonathan Sahula |
| occupation | |
The Elegant Universe (published under the title " What Einstein Didn't Know Yet ") is a 2003 American feature film and documentary based on the published book by physicist Brian Greene The Elegant Universe . The film consists of three parts, all of which deal with the controversial string theory and its attempt to unite quantum physics and Einstein's general theory of relativity .
Production and age rating
The film was produced by the production company Nova, and it was shot in New York City (including Central Park and Manhattan ). In the USA a film was made with a length of 180 minutes (in the UK 3 parts of 60 minutes in length). Many of the people in the documentary are well-known physicists from the UK and USA .
In the USA there is no age rating for the film , in Australia the film has been rated PG ("Parental Guidance"). The film was released on DVD in Germany in 2008 (Polyband).
action
The film begins with a short biography of the physicist Albert Einstein and his theory of relativity . After the discovery of electromagnetism , i.e. the fusion of electricity and magnetism, Einstein also dreamed of a fusion of the theory of relativity with quantum physics . Einstein did not succeed in this, his unified field theory came under criticism due to quantum physics (this includes not only electromagnetism, but also strong and weak nuclear forces. Einstein tried until the end of his life to combine both theories, but without success. While gravity takes place in the macrocosm , quantum physics takes place in the microcosm . The difference between these forces is very high, so that gravity is significantly weaker than the nuclear force. This is where the strings come in.
The string theory is explained below. In 1968 this was discovered by the physicist Gabriele Veneziano using a formula within the framework of the scatter matrix theory. However, it got into trouble again and again because this theory has many contradictions and no experiments can be carried out that prove the existence of strings. It was not until 1984 that physicists Michael Green and John Schwarz were able to remove all anomalies. Another problem with string theory is the variation of this theory, because there are four other theories. In 1995 Edward Witten stated that there are no five theories, but that each theory is part of a single theory, the so-called M-theory . However, this requires an additional dimension . The original string theory is based on ten dimensions, whereby humans can perceive four of these dimensions (the three dimensions of space and those of time ). The M-theory calls for an eleventh dimension. String theory could realize Einstein's dream of discovering a formula that explains the behavior of the micro- and macrocosm.