The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know

Taught by Dr. Don Lincoln of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, this course probes the clues to the most astounding discoveries in modern physics, covering everything from quarks to the accelerating universe. The theories covered include special and general relativity, quantum mechanics, and the Big Bang, along with speculative ideas such as cosmic inflation, dark matter, and dark energy.

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• 01: Do You Believe In Atoms?
• 02: Peering inside Protons and Neutrons
• 03: Seeing Light as Wave and Particle
• 04: The Paradox of Quantum Entanglement
• 05: How We Know Special Relativity Is Real
• 06: Why the Speed of Light Is the Speed Limit
• 07: Discovering Subatomic Particles
• 08: How Do You Weigh a Quark?
• 09: Capturing the Ghostly Neutrino
• 10: The Search for the Higgs Boson
• 11: Are Man-Made Black Holes Dangerous?
• 12: How We Know What Stars Are Made Of
• 13: Forming the Milky Way and Other Galaxies
• 14: Finding Planets around Distant Stars
• 15: The Awesome Evidence for General Relativity
• 16: The Hunt for Gravitational Waves
• 17: How We Know the Universe Began with a Bang
• 18: The Case for Cosmic Inflation
• 19: How We Know Dark Matter Exists
• 20: How We Search for Dark Matter
• 21: How We Know the Universe Is Accelerating
• 22: Measuring the Size and Age of the Universe
• 23: What We Know about Quantum Foam
• 24: Are Space and Time Quantized?