NOVA – Fabric of the Cosmos

Acclaimed physicist and host Brian Greene lets NOVA viewers in on a secret: We’ve all been deceived. Our perceptions of time and space have led us astray. Much of what we thought we knew about our universe—that the past has already happened and the future is yet to be, that space is just an empty void, that our universe is the only universe that exists—just might be wrong.

In “The Fabric of the Cosmos”, a new four-hour NOVA special series, Greene takes viewers on a mind-bending reality check and journey to the frontiers of physics to see how scientists are piecing together the most complete picture yet of space, time and the universe. With each step, audiences will discover that just beneath the surface of our everyday experience lies a world we’d hardly recognize—a startling world far stranger and more wondrous than anyone expected.

“Our viewers love ideas—the bigger the better. And, in our new series, “The Fabric of the Cosmos”, we’ll give them a feast of ideas to ponder,” says NOVA Senior Executive Producer Paula Apsell. “We will look at why empty space is actually quite full, what time really is, why other universes may exist, and how a hidden world lies beneath this one, governed by rules radically different from our own. In a series of imagined environments, we’ll take our viewers to places they’ve never been, to see things that are literally out of this world.”

Based on Greene’s best-selling book The Fabric of the Cosmos, the new NOVA series promises to be the most visually compelling and entertaining presentation of modern physics ever seen on television—interweaving provocative theories, experiments, and stories with crystal-clear explanations and imaginative metaphors, as well as state-of-the-art computer graphics.