Confronting the Universe: 5
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Betting on the cosmos: Nobel prizewinner Robert Laughlin is passionate about experiments. He challenges the students in this film, and laureate David Gross, to come up with ways to test our big ideas about the Universe. Watch what happens when the two laureates make a bet.
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