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Examining the Big Questions of Time

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<p>With the help of Scientific American magazine, dive into one of the biggest scientific explorations of the last few centuries to uncover the realities of time and how much—and how little—we truly understand about it.</p>

Syllabus

  • 01: A Matter of Time
  • 02: The Myth of the Beginning of Time
  • 03: That Mysterious Flow
  • 04: Is Time an Illusion?
  • 05: Time Travel and the Twin Paradox
  • 06: A Chronicle of Timekeeping
  • 07: Atomic Clocks
  • 08: Times of Our Lives
  • 09: Remembering When
  • 10: Inconstant Constants
  • 11: Atoms of Space and Time
  • 12: Could Time End?
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Taught by

Laura Helmuth

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