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Symmetry, Information, and Probability
Lecture no. 23 from the course: Impossible: Physics Beyond the Edge
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Taught by Professor Benjamin Schumacher | 29 min | Categories: Science
Survey the landscape of the impossible by focusing on three recurring themes in the course: One, symmetries are among the deepest principles in physics; two, the idea of information is pervasive; three, many phenomena that appear to be impossible are only statistical impossibilities....
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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22
Geometry and Conservation
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of 32 min
23
Symmetry, Information, and Probability
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24
The Future of the Impossible
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