Reality Since Einstein
Offered By: World Science Festival via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction with Brian Greene
Participant Introductions
What aspect of physics is so important that you would tattoo it on your body?
Steven Weinberg takes us from Newton to Einstein.
What was the observational support for Einstein theories?
Can Newtons ideas be extracted from Einstein's?
What did Einstein think about the Big Bang?
What did Hubble's observations discover?
What is the biggest unsolved problem in cosmology?
What is the history of Black Holes?
Einstein's thoughts on singularity.
What is a gravitational wave?
What does a gravitational wave sound like?
Combining General relativity and Quantum mechanics.
Cumrun Vafa on String theory.
Samir Mathur explains information loss at a black hole.
Black Holes to Wormholes.
Is the fabric of space time a physical thing?
What is the one question you would want answered in your lifetime?
Taught by
World Science Festival
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