Great courses (Compact disc)

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

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