Mysteries of Modern Physics : Time

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" The Great courses, Topic: Science & mathematics ; Subtopic: Physics"--Cover.
"Course no. 1257."
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
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.
Lecturer: Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology.
"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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