The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality (The Great Courses)

Lincoln, Don

ISBN 10: 1629973858 / ISBN 13: 9781629973852

Published by The Teaching Company, 2017

About this Item

Course Guidebook, plus 4-disc DVD set containing twenty-four 30-minute lectures on the topic of Physics. DVD set in original case plus the guidebook. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). DVDs fine in a fine case. Sealed together in the publisher's original shrinkwrap. As new.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality (The Great Courses)
• Publisher: The Teaching Company
• Publication Date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1629973858
• ISBN 13: 9781629973852
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Physical Science
  • Science

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Synopsis

At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory of relativity. He was trying to find an equation that explained all physical reality-a theory of everything. He failed, but others have taken up the challenge in a remarkable quest that is shedding light on unsuspected secrets of the cosmos. Experimental physicist and award-winning educator Dr. Don Lincoln of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory takes you on this exciting journey in The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality. Suitable for the intellectually curious at all levels and assuming no background beyond basic high-school math, these 24 half-hour lectures cover recent developments at the forefront of particle physics and cosmology, while delving into the history of the centuries-long search for this holy grail of science. You trace the dream of a theory of everything through Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Weinberg, and other great physicists, charting their progress toward an all-embracing, unifying theory. Their resulting equations are the masterpieces of physics, which Dr. Lincoln explains in fascinating and accessible detail. Studying them is like touring a museum of great works of art-works that are progressing toward an ultimate, as-yet-unfinished masterpiece.