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The great questions of philosophy and physics.

2020

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	The great questions of philosophy and physics.
Publisher, Date:	Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2020]
Description:	2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 128 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm) digital optical video file DVD video
Summary:	Dr. Steven Gimbel of Gettysburg College shows how physics and philosophy work together to reveal the true nature of the universe. Physics makes the discoveries and philosophy interprets the results. Those results have been very odd since the turn of the twentieth century, with relativity, quantum theory, and Big Bang cosmology overthrowing the conventional picture of reality.
Series:	The great courses. Science. History & philosophy Great courses (DVD)
Subjects:	Physics -- Philosophy. Philosophy.
Genre:	Instructional films. Educational films. Nonfiction films. Science films. Lectures. Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:	Gimbel, Steven, 1968- teacher. Teaching Company, publisher.
Notes:	Title from sell sheet. Wide screen. Director, The Great Courses. Lecturer, Steven Gimbel. DVD. Closed captioned.
Contents:	Does physics make philosophy superfluous? ; Why mathematics works so well with physics ; Can physics explain reality? ; The reality of Einstein's space ; The nature of Einstein's time ; The beginning of time -- Are atoms real? ; Quantum states: neither true nor false? ; Waves, particles, and quantum entanglement ; Wanted dead and alive: Schrödinger's cat ; The dream of grand unification ; The physics of God.
ISBN:	9781629978796 1629978795
Publisher Number:	60000
Other Number:	1157347942
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	853024
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Call Number:	GREAT DVD 530.01 Great qu

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