Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics

Lecturer: Sean Carroll, California Institute of Technology

Time seems to be woven into the very fabric of the universe. But why? In 24 riveting half-hour episodes, Mysteries of Modern Physics: Time 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

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

Why Time Is a Mystery

Episode 2

What Is Time?

Episode 3

Keeping Time

Episode 4

Time's Arrow

Episode 5

The Second Law of Thermodynamics

Episode 6

Reversibility and the Laws of Physics

Episode 7

Time Reversal in Particle Physics

Episode 8

Time in Quantum Mechanics

Episode 9

Entropy and Counting

Episode 10

Playing with Entropy

Episode 11

The Past Hypothesis

Episode 12

Memory, Causality, and Action

Episode 13

Boltzmann Brains

Episode 14

Complexity and Life

Episode 15

The Perception of Time

Episode 16

Memory and Consciousness

Episode 17

Time and Relativity

Episode 18

Curved Spacetime and Black Holes

Episode 19

Time Travel

Episode 20

Black Hole Entropy

Episode 21

Evolution of the Universe

Episode 22

The Big Bang

Episode 23

The Multiverse

Episode 24

Approaches to the Arrow of Time