Time Is of the Essence - Or Is It?
Offered By: World Science Festival via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Syllabus
Jim Holt's introduction
Participant Introductions
What intellectual changes happened between Newton and Einstein?
How does simultaneity break down in special relativity?
Lee's 5 things to know about Special Relativity.
Does knowing what time is have any practical purpose.
Why didn't Einstein have the last word on time?
What is loop quantum theory?
Albert has different theories that isn't loop theory or string theory.
VJ metaphor about Love to explain time.
Lee and Carlo disagree over the reality of time.
Is time fundamental, and space is emergent?
Are doing we science or metaphysics?
David disagrees with Lee's viewpoint on time.
VJ and Carlo answers if this is metaphysics or physics.
Carlo's studies with black holes.
Taught by
World Science Festival
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