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The elegant universe was later made into a pbs television special of the same name, hosted and narrated by greene, which won a 2003 peabody award. Brian greene received his undergraduate degree from harvard university and his doctorate from oxford university, where he was a rhodes scholar. A physicist explains why parallel universes may exist. The elegant universe is focused on string theory and gets extra speculative towards the end. He is the author of the elegant universe, the fabric of the cosmos, and the more about brian greene.
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