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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
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