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Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time

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Tackle one of the greatest problems in all of science—the nature of time itself—in this groundbreaking course by one of the foremost researchers in this field.

Syllabus

  • 01: Why Time Is a Mystery
  • 02: What Is Time?
  • 03: Keeping Time
  • 04: Time's Arrow
  • 05: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • 06: Reversibility and the Laws of Physics
  • 07: Time Reversal in Particle Physics
  • 08: Time in Quantum Mechanics
  • 09: Entropy and Counting
  • 10: Playing with Entropy
  • 11: The Past Hypothesis
  • 12: Memory, Causality, and Action
  • 13: Boltzmann Brains
  • 14: Complexity and Life
  • 15: The Perception of Time
  • 16: Memory and Consciousness
  • 17: Time and Relativity
  • 18: Curved Spacetime and Black Holes
  • 19: Time Travel
  • 20: Black Hole Entropy
  • 21: Evolution of the Universe
  • 22: The Big Bang
  • 23: The Multiverse
  • 24: Approaches to the Arrow of Time
  • By This Professor

Taught by

Sean Carroll

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