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Could a Fictional Character Win the Nobel in Physics?

Opening in select U.S. theaters over the next few weeks, Dark Matter is a movie about physics gone wrong. No, the Hadron Collider doesn't punch a hole in reality. Instead, it's about a much smaller and more personal explosion that occurs when a young Chinese graduate student named Liu Xing comes to the U.S. to study cosmology, and finds out that science isn't about truth but politics. Based on a true story, Dark Matter explores what happens when Liu Xing's radical theories of dark matter in the early 1990s clash with those of his academic adviser. When he refuses to toe the line, his adviser disowns him and Liu Xing hurtles towards personal destruction. The premise is intriguing, and writer Billy Shebar based his main character's ideas on real theories about superstrings. More »

3:46 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Annalee Newitz
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