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Taught by Professor Dan Hooper | 28 min | Categories: Science
Einstein spent the last decades of his life searching for a unified field theory that would unite general relativity with Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. But by then, quantum theory had superseded Maxwell's work, rendering the entire exercise futile. See how this quest has nonetheless stimulated ideas for unification in proposals such as string theory....
12 Lectures
1
What Einstein Got Right: Special Relativity
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of 30 min
2
What Einstein Got Right: General Relativity
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of 30 min
3
Einstein's Rejection of Black Holes
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of 29 min
4
Einstein and Gravitational Waves
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of 31 min
5
Cosmology and the Cosmological Constant
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of 28 min
6
The Cosmological Constant and Dark Energy
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of 28 min
7
What Einstein Got Right: Light Quanta
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of 27 min
8
Does God Play Dice with the Universe?
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of 27 min
9
Quantum Entanglement
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of 28 min
10
The Search for a Unified Field Theory
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of 28 min
11
Problems with Time Travel
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of 27 min
12
What Other Giants Got Wrong
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of 32 min
