Impossible: Physics Beyond the Edge
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
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.
Syllabus
- 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
Taught by
Benjamin Schumacher
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