Brian Greene Talks NOVA's "The Fabric of the Cosmos" @ NY Comic Con

At the New York Comic Con convention, physicist and author Brian Greene discusses NOVA's The Fabric of the Cosmos (airing on PBS beginning Nov. 2, 2011). This video includes an edited version of the entire panel and audience Q&A.

Coming November 2 to PBS, this four-part miniseries, hosted by physicist and acclaimed author Brian Greene, takes us to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time and the universe, revealing that beneath the surface of our everyday experience lies a world that is far stranger and more wondrous than anyone expected.

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[gc7234]

when does this new series premier ?

[PBS]

@gc7234 Nov. 2

[curiousgeorge1940]

It's a great leap forward in human progress, that every scientist on the planet can still say : " I don't know " .... and then take it from there. No magic - no dogma : just imagination and discovery !

[lokaiwen]

I imagine Professor Greene lecturing at university, and I compare that image with his style of explanation at Comic con. I wonder how it feels to know as much as he does about his field, and how difficult it is to truncate his concepts for the audience.

It is the "sci-fi" strangeness of quantum physics that make it popular.

I think that it is inspiring that the general public, here represented by Comic con attendees, have a thirst for modern general knowledge. Hope for the future?

[Rev201287]

@djancak

It means theres an infinity of evrything you can think of. Everything.

[greenoryellow]

@SuperMagnetizer r u sure gravity is weak underground.. I thought it is other way around. It gets weaker as you go above.

[greenoryellow]

@KennyReddwooddforest i think ur right, there was some tests conductd last decmber at cern and subsequently at america. they are still testing it further.. whatsoever.. but this is startling..

[JG129]

What a great guy !!! Trying to explain very complicated ideas in laymen's terms.

[readbird]

But what if we are just a universe or whatever. And another one have the same thing. If there is an infinity of universes something like this will happen: In our universe it is ok to have an infinity, and in another that is not allowed! We say it is ok, but in another it is not! Which universe wins?

[KennyReddwooddforest]

@SuperMagnetizer Light also is consisting of particles which in themselves don't travel as much as they compel or trigger other particles as in a domino effect. Same applies to neutrinos, they only trigger a chain reaction, but on a micro physics level and therefore it is faster that way, and can absolutely react at light speed as well as more than light speed. They have tested it and it worked. Its just hard for our perception to make sense out of. No propaganda. It is scientific innovation.

[LothairApoclyane]

Reality is not 2 dimensional.. Topological entropy physics is the hologram

[Sirchud68]

Science is cool!

[2011mrnoah]

u ever notice how scientist theory mimics religion, hindu, jewdism, muslim, buddhism and shamans

[SuperMagnetizer]

Gravity and relative motion affect the speed (space interval divided by time interval) of light, not time and space. The video is pure propaganda. The CERN neutrinos did not travel faster than light, but they did exceed c. Light would have done the same, over the underground (reduced gravity) path the neutrinos took. Very few of the sheeple will understand, try to understand, or believe this.