The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Do you like a good detective story? Join a renowned scientist trying to solve nature's ultimate mystery.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Two Prototype Theories of Everything
- 02: The Union of Electricity and Magnetism
- 03: Particles and Waves: The Quantum World
- 04: Einstein Unifies Space, Time, and Light
- 05: Relativistic Quantum Fields and Feynman
- 06: Neutrinos Violating Parity and the Weak Force
- 07: Flavor Changes via the Weak Force
- 08: Electroweak Unification via the Higgs Field
- 09: Quarks, Color, and the Strong Force
- 10: Standard Model Triumphs and Challenges
- 11: How Neutrino Identity Oscillates
- 12: Conservation Laws and Symmetry: Emmy Noether
- 13: Theoretical Symmetries and Mathematics
- 14: Balancing Force and Matter: Supersymmetry
- 15: Why Quarks and Leptons?
- 16: Newton's Gravity Unifies Earth and Sky
- 17: Einstein's Gravity Bends Space-Time
- 18: What Holds Each Galaxy Together: Dark Matter
- 19: What Pushes the Universe Apart: Dark Energy
- 20: Quantum Gravity: Einstein, Strings, and Loops
- 21: From Weak Gravity to Extra Dimensions
- 22: Big Bang and Inflation Explain Our Universe
- 23: Free Parameters and Other Universes
- 24: Toward a Final Theory of Everything
Taught by
Don Lincoln
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