What Einstein got wrong [DVD]

Available

What Einstein got wrong

(2017)

Nonfiction

DVD

Series:

Great courses (DVD)

Call Numbers:

DVD/530.092/WHAT

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Nonfiction DVDs	DVD/530.092/WHAT	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2017]
©2017

DESCRIPTION

2 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 153 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

ISBN/ISSN

9781629974941 1307, 1629974943 PD1307A, 9781629974941 ID1307A-01, PB1307A

LANGUAGE

English

SERIES

Great courses (DVD)

NOTES

Cataloged from container

Discover the fallible side of the world's most celebrated genius as you trace Einstein's path to greatness

Contains twelve lectures; each lecture approximately 30 minutes

Course no. 1307

Taught by Professor Dan Hooper, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, University of Chicago

DVD

Closed-captioned

Disc 1.

What Einstein got right: special relativity ; What Einstein got right: general relativity ; Einstein's rejection of black holes ; Einstein and gravitational waves ; Cosmology and the cosmological constant ; Cosmological constant and dark energy --

Disc 2.

What Einstein got right: light quanta ; Does God play dice with the universe? ; Quantum entanglement ; Search for a unified field theory ; Problems with time travel ; What other giants got wrong