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Atoms to X-rays: The Mystery of Empty Space: Higgs Bosons, Vacuum Energy and Extra Dimensions

Added on 8/12/2008 by UCTV

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Get ready to re-think your ideas of reality. Join UCSD physicist Kim Griest as he takes you on a fascinating excursion, addressing some of the massive efforts and tantalizing bits of evidence which suggest that what goes on in empty space determines the properties of the three-dimensional existence we know and love, and discusses how that reality may be but the wiggling of strings from other dimensions.

More information about UCSD physicist Kim Griestcan be found at: http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/%7Egriest/

Source: UC San Diego

Link to The Teacher's P.E.T. on UCTV:
http://www.uctv.tv/teachers/standards.asp?showID=5551

Standard Category: Earth Sciences
Structure and Composition of the Atmosphere

Series: Atoms to X-Rays
http://www.ucsd.tv/atoms/

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