NEW YORK — Brian Greene works in a world where scientific reasoning rules all and imagination leads to the most unlikely truths.
Greene and other “string theorists” are exploring a possible scenario in which people and the world around us are actually a 3-D holographic projection of two-dimensional data that exists outside the accessible universe.
It’s a concept so mindbending for those who don’t understand the complex math behind it that many might decide it’s best left to the academics. But Greene wants to build public excitement about science and intends to bring even the most complex ideas to the masses at the World Science Festival, which starts Wednesday.
“The idea is to . . . find the compelling narrative and stories that allow these programs to really feel like an experience and not a lesson,” said Greene, who has brought the possible inner workings of the universe to scores through his book “The Elegant Universe” and PBS specials.
Topics for panel discussions include the plausibility of the science of “Star Trek.” And in an event simulcast from Norway, the $1 million Kavli prizes will be awarded in the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience.
