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Taught by Professor Benjamin Schumacher | 29 min | Categories: Science
Consider a new kind of impossible thing: predicting the future in the presence of chaos. Even the slightest imprecision in present knowledge makes the long-term future unknowable. This is the phenomenon of dynamical chaos, also known as the "butterfly effect"-from the ability of a single flapping butterfly to radically affect future weather....
24 Lectures
1
From Principles to Paradoxes and Back Again
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of 31 min
2
Almost Impossible
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of 30 min
3
Perpetual Motion
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of 31 min
4
On Sunshine and Invisible Particles
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of 31 min
5
Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire
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of 30 min
6
Maxwell's Demon
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of 30 min
7
Absolute Zero
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of 31 min
8
Predicting the Future
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of 29 min
9
Visiting the Past
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of 30 min
10
Thinking in Space-Time
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of 30 min
11
Faster than Light
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of 29 min
12
Black Holes and Curved Space-Time
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of 32 min
13
A Spinning Universe, Wormholes, and Such
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of 31 min
14
What Is Symmetry?
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of 31 min
15
Mirror Worlds
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of 31 min
16
Invasion of the Giant Insects
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of 30 min
17
The Curious Quantum World
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of 29 min
18
Impossible Exactness
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of 30 min
19
Quantum Tunneling
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of 29 min
20
Whatever Is Not Forbidden Is Compulsory
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of 32 min
21
Entanglement and Quantum Cloning
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of 29 min
22
Geometry and Conservation
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of 32 min
23
Symmetry, Information, and Probability
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of 29 min
24
The Future of the Impossible
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of 31 min
