DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Mysteries of modern physics : time / the Teaching Company ; Professor Sean Carroll.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2012]

©2012

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

"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"--Page 1

Great courses. Science & mathematics. Physics

Great courses ; no. 1257

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.

Time.

General relativity (Physics)

Lectures.

Educational films.

Nonfiction films.

Carroll, Sean, 1966- author, speaker.

Teaching Company, production company.

California Institute of Technology.

Time

"The Great courses, Topic: Science & mathematics ; Subtopic: Physics"--Cover.

"Course no. 1257."

24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.

Accompanying course guidebook includes a bibliography (pages 170-172).

Producers, Ines I. Perez-Thompson, James Blandford.

Lecturer: Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology.

DVD.

For private home use only.

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. Eolution of the universe -- Lecture 22. The Big Bang -- Lecture 23. The multiverse -- Lecture 24. Approaches to the arrow of time.

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