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In two containers, with two discs each and one booklet

Course No. 1299

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Lecturer: Benjamin Schumacher, Kenyon College

"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

DVD, NTSC

pt. 1.

disc 1.

Lecture 1.

From principles to paradoxes and back again ;

Lecture 2.

Almost impossible ;

Lecture 3.

Perpetual motion ;

Lecture 4.

On sunshine and invisible particles ;

Lecture 5.

Reflections on the motive power of fire ;

Lecture 6.

Maxwell's demon -- disc 2.

Lecture 7.

Absolute zero ;

Lecture 8.

Predicting the future ;

Lecture 9.

Visiting the past ;

Lecture 10.

Thinking in space-time ;

Lecture 11.

Faster than light ;

Lecture 12.

Black holes and curved space-time

pt. 2.

disc. 3.

Lecture 13.

A spinning universe, wormholes and such ;

Lecture 14.

What is symmetry? ;

Lecture 15.

Mirror worlds ;

Lecture 16.

Invasion of the giant insects ;

Lecture 17.

Curious quantum world ;

Lecture 18.

Impossible exactness --

disc 4.

Lecture 19.

Quantum tunneling ;

Lecture 20.

Whatever is not forbidden is compulsory ;

Lecture 21.

Entanglement and quantum cloning ;

Lecture 22.

Geometry and conservation ;

Lecture 23.

Symmetry, information, and probability ;

Lecture 24.

Future of the impossible