Tackle one of the greatest problems in all of science—the nature of time itself—in this groundbreaking course by one of the foremost researchers in this field.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Why Time Is a Mystery
- 02: What Is Time?
- 03: Keeping Time
- 04: Time's Arrow
- 05: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- 06: Reversibility and the Laws of Physics
- 07: Time Reversal in Particle Physics
- 08: Time in Quantum Mechanics
- 09: Entropy and Counting
- 10: Playing with Entropy
- 11: The Past Hypothesis
- 12: Memory, Causality, and Action
- 13: Boltzmann Brains
- 14: Complexity and Life
- 15: The Perception of Time
- 16: Memory and Consciousness
- 17: Time and Relativity
- 18: Curved Spacetime and Black Holes
- 19: Time Travel
- 20: Black Hole Entropy
- 21: Evolution of the Universe
- 22: The Big Bang
- 23: The Multiverse
- 24: Approaches to the Arrow of Time
Taught by
Sean Carroll
