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Available
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Collection
Publication
Great Courses (2017), 12 hours, 24 lectures, 247 pages
Description
Pull back the curtain on nature's deepest secrets and get a glimpse of the theory that ties everything together.
Language
Original language
English
Local notes
1 Two Prototype Theories of Everything / 2 The Union of Electricity and Magnetism / 3 Particles and Waves: The Quantum World / 4 Einstein Unifies Space, Time, and Light / 5 Relativistic Quantum Fields and Feynman / 6 Neutrinos Violating Parity and the Weak Force / 7 Flavor Changes via the Weak Force / 8 Electroweak Unification via the Higgs Field / 9 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