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Einstein's Innovative Thinking

Einstein's Innovative Thinking

Students are introduced to two of Einstein's most famous theories -- special relativity and general relativity -- and what he was thinking when he developed them.

9-12

Lesson Plan

String Theory: A New Picture of Gravity

String Theory: A New Picture of Gravity

This video segment from NOVA describes the general theory of relativity and the theory of electromagnetism.

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6-12

Video

String Theory: A Sense of Scale

String Theory: A Sense of Scale

This interactive activity from the NOVA Web site puts the infinitesimally small world of string theory into perspective.

6-12

Interactive

String Theory: A Strange New World

String Theory: A Strange New World

This video segment from NOVA chronicles Einstein's quest to unify the forces of electromagnetism and gravity.

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6-12

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String Theory: A Theory of Everything?

String Theory: A Theory of Everything?

This video segment from NOVA introduces the basic ideas behind string theory and looks at the quest for unification.

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9-12

Video

String Theory: A Theory of Everything Essay

String Theory: A Theory of Everything Essay

In this essay from the NOVA Web site, string theorist Brian Greene introduces the basic ideas behind string theory and how it might help us better understand the universe.

9-12

Document

String Theory: Gravity - The Odd Man Out

String Theory: Gravity - The Odd Man Out

This video segment from NOVA describes the discovery in the 1930s of two forces in addition to electromagnetism: the strong nuclear force and the weak nuclear force.

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9-12

Video

String Theory: Newton's Embarrassing Secret

String Theory: Newton's Embarrassing Secret

This video segment from NOVA chronicles Newton's theory of gravity and Einstein's discovery that contradicted it.

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6-12

Video

String Theory: Science or Philosophy?

String Theory: Science or Philosophy?

This video segment from NOVA discusses the challenge of proving the scientific validity of string theory, in question because strings may be too small to ever be seen or detected, and therefore tested.

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9-12

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String Theory: Strings to the Rescue

String Theory: Strings to the Rescue

This video segment from NOVA discusses the challenge of unifying the force of gravity and the forces described by quantum mechanics into a single theory of unification.

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9-12

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String Theory: The Quantum Café

String Theory: The Quantum Café

This video segment from NOVA relates the rise of subatomic physics in the 1920s and the development of the radical theory of quantum mechanics.

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9-12

Video

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