The theory of everything The quest to explain all reality
DVD - 2017
Pull back the curtain on nature's deepest secrets and get a glimpse of the theory that ties everything together.
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- Filmed lectures
Educational films - Published
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[Chantilly, Va.] :
Teaching Company
[2017]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- [PDF workbook version]
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Science & mathematics ; Subtopic: Physics"--Cover.
"Course no. 1318"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Accompanying CD-ROM contains course workbook in PDF format. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 computer optical disc (digital, 4 3/4 in.)
- Format
- DVD; PDF requires Adobe Reader or PDF reader.
- ISBN
- 9781501965418
- Disc 1. Two prototype theories of everything
- The union of electricity and magnetism
- Particles and waves: the quantum world
- Einstein unifies space, time, and light
- Relativistic quantum fields and Feynman
- Neutrinos violating parity and the weak force
- Disc 2. Flavor changes via the weak force
- Electroweak unification via the Higgs Field
- Quarks, color, and the strong force
- Standard model triumphs and challenges
- How neutrino identity oscillates
- Conservation laws and symmetry : Emmy Noether
- Disc 3. Theoretical symmetries and mathematics
- Balancing force and matter : supersymmetry
- Why quarks and leptons?
- Newton's gravity unifies earth and sky
- Einstein's gravity bends space-time
- What holds each galaxy together : dark matter
- Disc 4. What pushes the universe apart: dark energy
- Quantum gravity: Einstein, strings, and loops
- From weak gravity to extra dimensions
- Big bang and inflation explain our universe
- Free parameters and other universes
- Toward a final theory of everything.