{"id":3900,"date":"2011-08-15T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T17:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3900"},"modified":"2011-08-15T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T17:48:11","slug":"the-fabric-of-the-cosmos-on-pbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3900","title":{"rendered":"The Fabric of the Cosmos on PBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/physics\/fabric-of-the-cosmos.html\">four-part NOVA series<\/a> based upon Brian Greene&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fabric-Cosmos-Space-Texture-Reality\/dp\/0375727205\">The Fabric of the Cosmos<\/a> is coming to PBS this fall, starting November 2.  In some sense this is a follow-on to his wildly successful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/elegant\/\">The Elegant Universe<\/a> NOVA series from 2003, which was largely devoted to promoting string theory.  From the program description and preview it appears that the new shows don&#8217;t emphasize string theory, although the fourth of the series promotes the Multiverse (Clifford Johnson joins the effort <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/physics\/johnson-multiverse.html\">here<\/a>), along the lines of Brian&#8217;s latest book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hidden-Reality-Parallel-Universes-Cosmos\/dp\/0307265633\">The Hidden Reality<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A four-part NOVA series based upon Brian Greene&#8217;s The Fabric of the Cosmos is coming to PBS this fall, starting November 2. In some sense this is a follow-on to his wildly successful The Elegant Universe NOVA series from 2003, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=3900\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3902,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3900\/revisions\/3902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}