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Written by Joseph Conlon
Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford
Author, Why String Theory? https://www.amazon.com/Why-String-Theory-Joseph-Conlon/dp/1482242478
Edited and Narrated by David Kelly
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
Animations by Jero Squartini https://fiverr.com/freelancers/jerosq
Huge thanks to Jeff Bryant for his Calabi-yau animation.
Footage from Videoblocks, Artlist. Footage of galaxies from NASA and ESO.
Music from Epidemic Sound, Artlist, Silver Maple and Yehezkel Raz.
Image Credits:
NRAO Edward Witten
Paul, Dirac photo By Science Museum London / Science and Society Picture Library – The physicists Paul Dirac, Wolfgang Pauli and Rudolf Peierls, c 1953.Uploaded by Mrjohncummings, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28024324
Timelapse video illustrating failure of cytokinesis with anillin knockdown and addback of GFP-Anillin S635D . Time from anaphase onset indicated in hours:min:sec.
Date 12 January 2017
Source S5 Video from Kim H, Johnson J, Lera R, Brahma S, Burkard M (2017). “Anillin Phosphorylation Controls Timely Membrane Association and Successful Cytokinesis”. PLOS Genetics. DOI:10.1371/journal.pgen.1006511. PMID 28081137. PMC: 5230765.
LHC scattering by Lucas Taylor / CERN – http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/628469, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1433671
Perth Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Darwin De Jeremy De Guzman – https://www.flickr.com/photos/awesomeasian/16374967216/, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=38833689
Freeman Dyson ioerror, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Video of String Theory conference from Stoney Brook Archives.
00:00 Introduction
05:28 The Five String Theories
14:05 One Theory To Rule Them All (M Theory)
26:07 Brane Cosmology
35:05 Proving The Unprovable
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