Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — Season 1, Episode 9: The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten
Documentary • 89 min • 1 season, 27 episodes
Episode synopsis
Interview with Edward Witten, American theoretical physicist (in a room at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey). Witten talks about solving physics riddles, developments in his field, happiness, religion, skepticism, the Big Bang, quantum mechanics, relativity theory, string theory, and the concepts of space and time.
About Van de Schoonheid en de Troost
To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka
- E2Homecoming: Roger Scruton
- E3Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall
- E4The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner
- E5The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy
- E6Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg
- E7Guilt: Martha Nussbaum
- E8You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel
- E10Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus
- E11When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland
- E12What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch
- E13John the Myth: Stephen Jay Gould