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The great questions of philosophy and physics.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: PD60000a | The Great Courses | (discs)PB60000a | The Great Courses | (book)ID60000A-01 | The Great Courses | (container)Series: Great courses (DVD)Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Great Courses, [2020]Description: 2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 128 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781629978796
  • 1629978795
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Contents:
disc 1. Does physics make philosophy superfluous? ; Why mathematics works so well with physics ; Can physics explain reality? ; The reality of Einstein's space ; The nature of Einstein's time ; The beginning of time -- disc 2. Are atoms real? ; Quantum states: neither true nor false? ; Waves, particles, and quantum entanglement ; Wanted dead and alive: Schrödinger's cat ; The dream of grand unification ; The physics of God.
Production credits:
  • Director, The Great Courses.
Lecturer, Steven Gimbel.Summary: Dr. Steven Gimbel of Gettysburg College shows how physics and philosophy work together to reveal the true nature of the universe. Physics makes the discoveries and philosophy interprets the results. Those results have been very odd since the turn of the twentieth century, with relativity, quantum theory, and Big Bang cosmology overthrowing the conventional picture of reality.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD 530.01 G786 Available 33111009930773
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Dr. Steven Gimbel of Gettysburg College shows how physics and philosophy work together to reveal the true nature of the universe. Physics makes the discoveries and philosophy interprets the results. Those results have been very odd since the turn of the twentieth century, with relativity, quantum theory, and Big Bang cosmology overthrowing the conventional picture of reality.

DVD.

In English; closed captioned.

Title from container.

Lecturer, Steven Gimbel.

Wide screen.

"Course no. 60000."

Coursebook includes bibliographical references.

Dr. Steven Gimbel of Gettysburg College shows how physics and philosophy work together to reveal the true nature of the universe. Physics makes the discoveries and philosophy interprets the results. Those results have been very odd since the turn of the twentieth century, with relativity, quantum theory, and Big Bang cosmology overthrowing the conventional picture of reality.

disc 1. Does physics make philosophy superfluous? ; Why mathematics works so well with physics ; Can physics explain reality? ; The reality of Einstein's space ; The nature of Einstein's time ; The beginning of time -- disc 2. Are atoms real? ; Quantum states: neither true nor false? ; Waves, particles, and quantum entanglement ; Wanted dead and alive: Schrödinger's cat ; The dream of grand unification ; The physics of God.

Director, The Great Courses.

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