Mysteries of modern physics time
(2012)
Nonfiction
Audiobook CD
Series:
Call Numbers:
CD/530.11/CARROLL,S
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chantilly, VA. : Teaching Company, [2012]
DESCRIPTION
12 audio discs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (volumes 172 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
ISBN/ISSN
9781598038705 PC1257A, 1598038702
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Compact discs
Designed for nonscientists as well as those with a background in physics, this course shows how a feature of the world that we all experience connects us to the instant of the formation of the universe-- and possibly to a multiverse that is unimaginably larger and more varied than the known cosmos
In two containers (19 cm.)
Unabridged
Sean Carroll, senior research associate in physics at the California Institute of Technology, lecturer
CONTENTS
Why time is a mystery --
What is time? --
Keeping time --
Time's arrow --
Second law of thermodynamics --
Reversibility and the laws of physics --
Time reversal in particle physics --
Time in quantum mechanics --
Entropy and counting --
Playing with entropy --
Past hypothesis --
Memory, causality and action --
Boltzmann brains --
Complexity and life --
Perceoption of time --
Memory and consciousness --
Time and relativity --
Curved spacetime and black holes --
Time travel --
Black hole entropy --
Evolution of the universe --
Big bang --
Multiverse --
Approaches to the arrow of time