Edward Witten on 'the theory of everything'
Physicist Edward Witten speaks to Jim Al-Khalili about his work on M-Theory, a leading contender for 'the theory of everything'.
The Life Scientific returns with a special episode from the USA; Princeton, New Jersey, to be precise.
Here, the Institute for Advanced Study has hosted some of the greatest scientific minds of our time - Einstein was one of its first Professors, J. Robert Oppenheimer its longest-serving director - and today's guest counts among them.
Edward Witten is Professor Emeritus at the Institute and the physicist behind M-Theory, a leading contender for what is commonly referred to as βthe theory of everythingβ, uniting quantum mechanics and Einsteinβs theory of gravity.
He talks to Jim Al-Khalili about a career thatβs spanned some of the most exciting periods in modern theoretical physics - and about one particular problem that's both obsessed and eluded him since his days as a studentβ¦
Produced by Lucy Taylor.
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