A companion course guidebook is shelved beside the course DVDs and is also available for check-out. Instructor, Don Lincoln, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. "Course No. 10070."
Contents:
Disc 1. Why the speed of light is the speed limit. Peering inside protons and neutrons -- Seeing light as wave and particle -- The paradox of quantum entanglement -- How we know special relativity is real -- Why the speed of light is the speed limit. Disc 2. How we know what stars are made of. How do you weigh a quark? -- Capturing the ghostly neutrino -- The search for the Higgs Boson -- Are man-made black holes dangerous? -- How we know what stars are made of. Disc 3. The case for cosmic inflation. Finding planets around distant stars -- The awesome evidence for gravitational waves -- How we know the universe began with a bang -- The case for cosmic inflation. Disc 4. Are space and time quantized? How we search for dark matter -- How we know the universe is accelerating -- Measuring the size and age of the universe -- What we know about quantum foam -- Are space and time quantized?
Summary:
"In a riveting course designed to give non-scientists the matchless experience of scientific discovery and deep understanding, The Evidence for Modern Physics: How We Know What We Know takes you through the most remarkable insights of contemporary physics, showing why physicists believe what they do."--The Great Courses.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.