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The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality

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Do you like a good detective story? Join a renowned scientist trying to solve nature's ultimate mystery.

Syllabus

  • 01: Two Prototype Theories of Everything
  • 02: The Union of Electricity and Magnetism
  • 03: Particles and Waves: The Quantum World
  • 04: Einstein Unifies Space, Time, and Light
  • 05: Relativistic Quantum Fields and Feynman
  • 06: Neutrinos Violating Parity and the Weak Force
  • 07: Flavor Changes via the Weak Force
  • 08: Electroweak Unification via the Higgs Field
  • 09: Quarks, Color, and the Strong Force
  • 10: Standard Model Triumphs and Challenges
  • 11: How Neutrino Identity Oscillates
  • 12: Conservation Laws and Symmetry: Emmy Noether
  • 13: Theoretical Symmetries and Mathematics
  • 14: Balancing Force and Matter: Supersymmetry
  • 15: Why Quarks and Leptons?
  • 16: Newton's Gravity Unifies Earth and Sky
  • 17: Einstein's Gravity Bends Space-Time
  • 18: What Holds Each Galaxy Together: Dark Matter
  • 19: What Pushes the Universe Apart: Dark Energy
  • 20: Quantum Gravity: Einstein, Strings, and Loops
  • 21: From Weak Gravity to Extra Dimensions
  • 22: Big Bang and Inflation Explain Our Universe
  • 23: Free Parameters and Other Universes
  • 24: Toward a Final Theory of Everything
  • By This Professor

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Don Lincoln

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