looking for full-time work, and we seem to have a president who is talking about payroll tax cuts but it s not clear he can get congress to do anything at this point? well, matt, i think there are a series of debates ahead. in december i think the biggest debate is going to be indeed over whether the payroll tax cut and the federal unemployment benefits are extended. i m hearing from a lot of people in the financial markets, wall street, business, that if both of these things end there s going to be a big hit to the economy, growth will slow. we ll lose hundreds of thousands of jobs. it s really essential to continue them. they are only temporary. they don t impact the long-term fiscal impact much because they are only temporary. then i think we will have a debate throughout the election here over how to reduce the deficit. we at least have a bipartisan agreement that we need something on the order of $4 trillion in
welcome, brian. thank you. so, you know, i just didn t i didn t get physics. somehow i was screwing around, and i was very glad to have a chance to talk to you and preview what the end of the series is, and before we get to the multi-verse, tell us in a couple of big strokes, what are some of the big things that you ve been doing in this series that we don t understand and you get wrong? well, many people have a conception of time that we think is not right. the past is gone and the future is yet to be, and in one of our programs we described how einstein s work showed us how in the past, present and future they are all equally real. they all exist. very strange idea. we ve already gone into quantum physics and described how the processes that happened in the microworld are very different than things you see in the everyday life. an object over here can affect the object over there without anything seemingly passing between theme. strange ideas and experimentally proving and we
if we could go beyond our solar system, beyond the milky way and even beyond other distant galaxy, past the end of the observable universe, we ll find that there s more. that s a clip from our next guest s nova special which tosses everything you think youy in about our universe out the window, including our current notion of how it all began. we ve heard about the big bang theory, but what if there wasn t just one massive explosion but multiple big bangs creating duplicate parallel realities even as we speak, and they are not only duplicates of our universe but of us, too. it s at the heart of a hotly debated new field of science called the multi-verse. with us is physicist brian green and host of nova s, the fabric of the cosmos series on pbs. the theme of which he describes is how could we be so wrong? the final episode, universe or multi-verse, previews tonight.
[ man #1 ] it s a dream, honestly. [ man #6 ] here it is today. we re going to go out and see it. the fruits of all of our labor. [ woman #2 ] i think a lot of people, when they look at a jet engine, they see a big hunk of metal. but when i look at it, i see seth, mark, tom, and people like that who work on engines every day. [ man #7 ] people say there is no such thing as perfect. they don t make jet engines. [ man #8 ] to see that thing on an airplane, if you work at ge aviation, it doesn t get any better. there it is. awesome. that s what we do! that s so cool! now, that s sweet! yeah, that was awesome! [ cheering ] i wanna see that again. we build jet engines. some of you may know that recently i ve been taking a series of executive actions that