Impossible: Physics Beyond the Edge

Delve into some of the most fascinating concepts at the edge of modern physics with a veteran Great Courses Professor who provides an ingenious teaching approach.

• By This Professor
• 01: From Principles to Paradoxes and Back Again
• 02: Almost Impossible
• 03: Perpetual Motion
• 04: On Sunshine and Invisible Particles
• 05: Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
• 06: Maxwell's Demon
• 07: Absolute Zero
• 08: Predicting the Future
• 09: Visiting the Past
• 10: Thinking in Space-Time
• 11: Faster than Light
• 12: Black Holes and Curved Space-Time
• 13: A Spinning Universe, Wormholes, and Such
• 14: What Is Symmetry?
• 15: Mirror Worlds
• 16: Invasion of the Giant Insects
• 17: The Curious Quantum World
• 18: Impossible Exactness
• 19: Quantum Tunneling
• 20: Whatever Is Not Forbidden Is Compulsory
• 21: Entanglement and Quantum Cloning
• 22: Geometry and Conservation
• 23: Symmetry, Information, and Probability
• 24: The Future of the Impossible