Mysteries of Modern Physics : Time

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Compact discs.
Accompanying course guidebook includes bibliographical references.
Why time is a mystery -- What is time? -- Keeping time -- Time's arrow -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Reversibility and the laws of physics -- Time reversal in particle physics -- Time in quantum mechanics -- Entropy and counting -- Playing with entropy -- The past hypothesis -- Memory, causality and action -- Boltzmann brains -- Complexity and life -- The perceoption of time -- Memory and consciousness -- Time and relativity -- Curved spacetime and black holes -- Time travel -- Black hole entropy -- Evolution of the universe -- The big bang -- The multiverse -- Approaches to the arrow of time.
Professor Sean Carroll, Senior Research Associate in Physics at the California Institute of Technology, lecturer.
Designed for nonscientists as well as those with a background in physics, Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time shows how a feature of the world that we all experience connects us to the instant of the formation of the universe--and possibly to a multiverse that is unimaginably larger and more varied than the known cosmos.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Time submitted by SBNB on June 21, 2014, 12:41pm Very VERY interesting. I've listened to a few of these "Great Courses" lectures, and this one is my favorite so far.