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Impossible [digital ...
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Impossible [digital videodisc] : physics beyond the edge / Benjamin Schumacher.
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Schumacher, Benjamin.
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2010.
Subjects
Physics.
Quantum theory.
ISBN:
1598036459
9781598036459
1598036467
9781598036466
Series:
Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics.
Description:
4 videodiscs (ca. 720 min.) in 2 v. : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 booklets (ii, 190, ii, 195 p. ; 21 cm.).
Contents:
Pt. 1. disc 1. Lecture 1. From principles to paradoxes and back again ; Lecture 2. Almost impossible ; Lecture 3. Perpetual motion ; Lecture 4. On sunshine and invisible particles ; Lecture 5. Reflections on the motive power of fire ; Lecture 6. Maxwell's demon -- disc 2. Lecture 7. Absolute zero ; Lecture 8. Predicting the future ; Lecture 9. Visiting the past ; Lecture 10. Thinking in space-time ; Lecture 11. Faster than light ; Lecture 12. Black holes and curved space-time.
Pt. 2. disc. 3. Lecture 13. A spinning universe, wormholes and such ; Lecture 14. What is symmetry? ; Lecture 15. Mirror worlds ; Lecture 16. Invasion of the giant insects ; Lecture 17. The curious quantum world ; Lecture 18. Impossible exactness -- disc 4. Lecture 19. Quantum tunneling ; Lecture 20. Whatever is not forbidden is compulsory ; Lecture 21. Entanglement and quantum cloning ; Lecture 22. Geometry and conservation ; Lecture 23. Symmetry, information, and probability ; Lecture 24. The future of the impossible.
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"Some things can happen in our universe and others cannot. The laws of physics set this boundary between the possible and the impossible."--Container. Professor Schumacher takes the viewer into territory onboth sides of the impossibility line to examine these complex realms.
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