Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Tackle one of the greatest problems in all of science—the nature of time itself—in this groundbreaking course by one of the foremost researchers in this field.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Why Time Is a Mystery
- 02: What Is Time?
- 03: Keeping Time
- 04: Time's Arrow
- 05: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- 06: Reversibility and the Laws of Physics
- 07: Time Reversal in Particle Physics
- 08: Time in Quantum Mechanics
- 09: Entropy and Counting
- 10: Playing with Entropy
- 11: The Past Hypothesis
- 12: Memory, Causality, and Action
- 13: Boltzmann Brains
- 14: Complexity and Life
- 15: The Perception of Time
- 16: Memory and Consciousness
- 17: Time and Relativity
- 18: Curved Spacetime and Black Holes
- 19: Time Travel
- 20: Black Hole Entropy
- 21: Evolution of the Universe
- 22: The Big Bang
- 23: The Multiverse
- 24: Approaches to the Arrow of Time
Taught by
Sean Carroll
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