What is Reality?
Description
What is reality? What is the universe made of, how does it work? In this Horizon program, Theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek, cosmologist Max Tegmark, quantum mechanic Seth Lloyd, experimental physicist Anton Zeilinger and particle physicist Rob Roser reveal their astonishing visions of reality. It may be vast, beautiful and terrifyingly complex, but understanding the nature of reality is one of the most important quests mankind has ever undertaken. Welcome to a mind-bending world, full of wild frontiers, head-spinning paradoxes and brilliant illusions.
Runtime
51 min
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Date of Publication
[2014], c2011
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Films on Demand
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