Status
Available
Call number
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