Title: The Theory of Everything Pdf The Quest to Explain All Reality
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.
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If you want to learn beyond available in popular books The Theory of Everything is an extraordinarily well-presented course on the topic. The course is not for everyone. There are sections with equations - while fairly elementary for those in the field - that require decent mathematical knowledge. Plus, the course frequently tackles scientific details that are difficult to wrap one’s head around. Effectively, the course goes far beyond what one reads in popular books on the subjects.The upshot is there is a lot new for everyone except perhaps the experts. For example, the course provides brilliant insights into the likely rationale behind the belief in the super-symmetry or the reasons behind the scientist community’s fascination with string theories. Such explanations are possible because of the arguments set out and proven with care before. The course’s best moments are when it explains the incongruity between general relativity and quantum mechanics. This reviewer has not come across better explanations on what makes the quantum gravity so difficult to formulate, despite the endless discussions in hundreds of popular books. While the Particle Physics sections are most detailed, and the quantum gravity explanations most illuminating, the professor has many other impressive sections/sub-sections on weak and strong nuclear forces, the basic cosmology, the dimensions that turn up in any equations that go beyond the standard model, the underlying realities of quarks, etc.A great course for anyone interested in the topic.
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