Now you can learn the basic ideas behind the theory of relativity and quantum physics from 24 lectures that require no special background in math or science. Professor Richard Wolfson teaches the awe-inspiring - and even, at times, mind-bending - concepts of modern physics in ways that anyone interested in learning can readily master. With scientists perhaps on the verge of unlocking the deepest secrets of the universe and with breaking news of discovery after discovery, an understanding of this fascinating subject has never been so important.

Special features: Lecture chapters; Professor biography. "Course Nr. 153." -- Disc. 24 lectures in 2 parts, 30 min. each. Course guide includes an outline of each lecture, bibliographical references, and diagrams used in the lectures.

Part 1. Time travel, tunneling, tennis, and tea ; Heaven and Earth, place and motion ; The Clockwork Universe ; Let there be light! ; Speed "c" relative to what? ; Earth and the Ether : a crisis in physics ; Einstein to the rescue ; Uncommon sense : stretching time ; Muons and time : traveling twins ; Escaping contradiction : simultaneity is relative ; Faster than light? Past, future, and elsewhere ; What about E=mc2, and is everything relative? -- part 2. A problem of gravity ; Curved spacetime ; Black holes ; Into the heart of matter ; Enter the quantum ; Wave or particle? ; Quantum uncertainty : farewell to determinism ; Particle or wave? ; Quantum weirdness and Schrödinger's cat ; The particle zoo ; Cosmic connections ; Toward a theory of everything.