Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution : Modern Physics for Non-Scientists

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Compact disc.
"Course no. 153"--Disc label.
Disc 1. lecture 1. Time travel, tunneling, tennis, and tea ; lecture 2. Heaven and earth, place and motion -- Disc 2. lecture 3. The clockwork universe ; lecture 4. Let there be light! -- Disc 3. lecture 5. Speed c relative to what? ; lecture 6. Earth and the ether: A crisis in physics -- Disc 4. lecture 7. Einstein to the rescue ; lecture 8. Uncommon sense: Stretching time -- Disc 5. lecture 9. Muons and time-traveling twins ; lecture 10. Escaping contradiction- Simultaneity is relative -- Disc 6. lecture 11. Faster than light? Past, future, and elsewhere ; lecture 12. What about E=mc², and is everything relative? -- Disc 7. lecture 13. A problem of gravity ; lecture 14. Curved spacetime -- Disc 8. lecture 15. Black holes ; lecture 16. Into the heart of matter -- Disc 9. lecture 17. Enter the quantum ; lecture 18. Wave or particle? -- Disc 10. lecture 19. Quantum uncertainty--Farewell to determinism ; lecture 20. Particle or wave? -- Disc 11. lecture 21. Quantum weirdness and Schrödinger's cat ; lecture 22. The particle zoo -- Disc 12. lecture 23. Cosmic connections -- lecture 24. Toward a theory of everything.
Lecturer: Professor Richard Wolfson, Middlebury College.
Takes the viewer from the early study of motion through the path of modern discovery of relativity, quantum phenomena and the consequences of these discoveries for our understanding of space, time and the universe.

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