Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here are your hosts. John Joseph Adams and David Barr

Kirtley.

Hi this is Dave and this is John and welcome to episode 60 of Geek's Guide to the

Galaxy. Our guest today is Brian Green. He's a theoretical physicist whose work

focuses on string theory. He's also theoretical physicist whose work focuses on string theory.

He's also the author of several popular science books, including the hidden reality and the elegant universe.

And he recently appeared as the host of the PBS Nova Special, The Fabric of the Cosmos.

Then stick around after the interview as Dave and I talk about parallel worlds in fantasy and

science fiction and discuss my new anthology, other worlds than these.

All right, so let's get to our interview.

All right, so we're here with Brian Green.

Welcome to the show.

Thank you.

OK, so you recently hosted a PBS special

called The Fabric of the Cosmos.

So how did that program come about and why should people go check it out?

Well, it's based on a book that I wrote of the same title The Fabric of the Cosmos, And it is a show that explores some of the strangest features of modern science,

but ideas that are well grounded in mathematical research. in the stuff that's all around us and other asks what is time this strange

feature of our lives that's so familiar yet so hard for science to pin down. And then is a program on quantum mechanics

that explores the micro world and focuses upon a feature known as

entanglement where distant objects can somehow communicate with each other

even though nothing travels between them.

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