Edward Witten
Physicist Edward Witten on M-Theory, the leading contender for a 'theory of everything'.
The Life Scientific returns with a special episode from the USA; Princeton, New Jersey, to be precise. Here, the Institute for Advanced Study has hosted some of the greatest scientific minds of our time - Einstein was one of its first Professors, J. Robert Oppenheimer its longest-serving director - and today's guest counts among them. Edward Witten is Professor Emeritus at the Institute and the physicist behind M-Theory, a leading contender for what is commonly referred to as 鈥榯he theory of everything鈥�, uniting quantum mechanics and Einstein鈥檚 theory of gravity. He talks to Jim Al-Khalili about a career that鈥檚 spanned some of the most exciting periods in modern theoretical physics - and about one particular problem that's both obsessed and eluded him since his days as a student鈥�
