Impossible: Physics beyond the Edge

by Benjamin Schumacher

DVD, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

530

Collections

Publication

Teaching Company (2010), DVD, 24 lectures, 120 pages

Description

"Some things can happen in our universe and others cannot. The laws of physics set this boundary between the possible and the impossible."--Container. Professor Schumacher takes the viewer into territory onboth sides of the impossibility line to examine these complex realms.

Language

Original language

English

ISBN

1598036459 / 9781598036459

Local notes

[01] From principles to paradoxes and back again [02] Almost impossible [03] Perpetual motion [04] On sunshine and invisible particles [05] Reflections on the motive power of fire [06] Maxwell's demon [07] Absolute zero [08] Predicting the future [09] Visiting the past [10] Thinking in space-time [11] Faster than light [12] Black holes and curved space-time [13] A spinning universe, wormholes and such [14] What is symmetry? [15] Mirror worlds [16] Invasion of the giant insects [17] The curious quantum world [18] Impossible exactness [19] Quantum tunneling [20] Whatever is not forbidden is compulsory [21] Entanglement and quantum cloning [22] Geometry and conservation [23] Symmetry, information, and probability [24] The future of the impossible
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