Mysteries of modern physics Time
Sound recording - 2012
Designed for nonscientists as well as those with a background in physics, this course shows how a feature of the world that we all experience connects us to the instant of the formation of the universe-- and possibly to a multiverse that is unimaginably larger and more varied than the known cosmos.
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- Published
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Chantilly, Virginia :
Teaching Co
[2012]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Edition
- [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Science & Mathematics ; Subtopic: Physics"--Cover.
"Course no. 1257"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. - Physical Description
- 12 audio discs (approximately 12 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Format
- Compact disc; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
- ISBN
- 9781490650500
- disc 1. Why time is a mystery
- What is time?
- disc 2. Keeping time
- Time's arrow
- disc 3. The second law of thermodynamics
- Reversibility and the laws of physics
- disc 4. Time reversal in particle physics
- Time in quantum mechanics
- disc 5. Entropy and counting
- Playing with entropy
- disc 6. The past hypothesis
- Memory, causality and action
- disc 7. Boltzmann brains
- Complexity and life
- disc 8. The perception of time
- Memory and consciousness
- disc 9. Time and relativity
- Curved spacetime and black holes
- disc 10. Time travel
- Black hole entropy
- disc 11. Evolution of the universe
- The big bang
- disc 12. The multiverse
- Approaches to the arrow of time.