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Beauty. Elegance. Charm. Color. Symmetry. Strangeness. These are the very words that physicists use to portray the most basic, scientific picture of our world. What they see is breath-taking. If you think "Quantum Physics" sounds too difficult, unfortunately, it’s even worse than that. Nobody in his right mind, my friends warn me, would dare do television like this. So here I am, doing it -- because Quantum Physics is real and relevant, and because every literate person should appreciate its profound beauty. This show is an impassioned word portrait of a new reality. Tilt your head, and it won’t be so hard. Stick with me; my bet is that you’ll get it and like it. 

Participants: Benford, Buchanan, Koonin, Lederman, Linde

	Gregory Benford is both a recognized physicist and world-renowned science-fiction novelist. He is professor of physics at the University of California at Irvine, where he specializes in plasma physics and astrophysics. He is also a consultant to NASA. He has written over 30 science fiction books, including If the Stars are Gods and COSM, and is considered perhaps the most scientifically accurate science fiction writer.
	Charles Buchanan is professor of physics at University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he is responsible for the interdisciplinary teaching of physics with the biological and social sciences in a program called, "Science and the Human Condition." He is an experimental physicist involved in high-energy particle physics.
	Steve Koonin is Vice President and Provost of the California Institute of Technology, considered the world’s leading science university, where he is also professor of theoretical physics. His research interests range from astrophysics to global climate change.
	Leon Lederman won the Nobel Prize in physics for contributing to the body of evidence that explains the fundamental structure of matter. He is Director Emeritus of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, the founder of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, and the author of two best-selling science books, The God Particle and From Quarks to the Cosmos.
	Andrei Linde, professor of physics at Stanford University, is one of the authors of "inflationary cosmology," the startling explanation for how the universe began and the global structure of the universe. Developed while he was still in Russia, "inflation" is one of the most remarkable theories in the history of science, dramatically expanding our sense of Reality seemingly beyond all comprehension.
	Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator and host of the Closer To Truth television series and author of the Closer To Truth book. Trained in brain research (Ph.D. UCLA), he has published more than twenty books, including the Handbook for Creative and Innovative Managers and the seven-volume Library of Investment Banking. He is the president of The Geneva Companies, a leading merger and acquisition firm for private, middle market businesses.
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