Mysteries of modern physics time /
"Time is as mysterious as it is familiar ..." An exploration of the mysteries of why time works the way it does "addressed by physics, philosophy, biology, neuroscience, and cosmology"--p. 1
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| Format: | Kit Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
c2012.
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| Series: | Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. Why time is a mystery
- Lecture 2. What is time?
- Lecture 3. Keeping time
- Lecture 4. Time's arrow
- Lecture 5. The second law of thermodynamics
- Lecture 6. Reversibility and the laws of physics
- Lecture 7. Time reversal in particle physics
- Lecture 8. Time in quantum mechanics
- Lecture 9. Entropy and counting
- Lecture 10. Playing with entropy
- Lecture 11. The past hypothesis
- Lecture 12. Memory, causality, and action
- Lecture 13. Boltzmann brains
- Lecture 14. Complexity and life
- Lecture 15. The perception of time
- Lecture 16. Memory and consciousness
- Lecture 17. Time and relativity
- Lecture 18. Curved spacetime and black holes
- Lecture 19. Time travel
- Lecture 20. Black hole entropy
- Lecture 21. Evolution of the universe
- Lecture 22. The Big Bang
- Lecture 23. The multiverse
- Lecture 24. Approaches to the arrow of time.