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Author Hooper, Dan, 1976- author.

Title What Einstein got wrong / Dan Hooper.

Publication Info. Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Company, [2018]
℗2018

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  LECTURE SERIES 530.092 HOO DISCS 1-7    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction Audiobook  CD 530.092 HOOPER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Audiobook  BKCD 530.092 HOO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  CD BOOK 530.092 HOOPER    Lost and Paid
Edition Unabridged.
Description 7 audio discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
digital optical 1.4 m. per second Digital recording rda
audio file CD audio rda
Series The Great Courses
Great Courses.
Note In container (17 cm.).
Title from container.
Compact disc.
"Course No. 1307."
Performer Lecturer: Dan Hooper.
Summary These twelve half-hour lectures are about what Einstein got wrong. He may have kindled a scientific revolution with his famous theory of relativity and his proof that atoms and light quanta exist, but he balked at accepting the most startling implications of these theories-such as the existence of black holes, the big bang, gravity waves, and mind-bendingly strange phenomena in the quantum realm. In a course that assumes no background in science and uses very little math, research physicist Dan Hooper of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago focuses on Einstein's personal qualities that made him a heavy hitter with relativity but also a strikeout king in many of his other ideas. You start with two lectures on Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, and in a later lecture you cover his founding role in quantum theory. All are titanic achievements. The balance of the course deals with his false starts, blind alleys, and outright blunders, which are fascinating for what they reveal about the give-and-take conduct of science. Dr. Hooper closes with a lecture on the missteps of other great physicists-Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton-proving that Einstein is in good company. Even geniuses struggle to find the truth.
Subject Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955.
Physicists -- Biography.
Relativity (Physics) -- History.
Physics -- History -- 20th century.
Science.
SCIENCE -- General.
Genre/Form Audiobooks.
Added Author Teaching Company.
Recorded Books, Inc.
ISBN 9781501999000
1501999001
Music No. GC1087 Recorded Books
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