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Superstring Theory: The DNA of Reality - The Teaching Company DVDs (The Great Courses) (Audiobook)
Publisher: Te-c-i-g C-m-an- | English | 2006 | ISBN: 1598031619 | MP3 | 642.77 Mb
Publisher: Te-c-i-g C-m-an- | English | 2006 | ISBN: 1598031619 | MP3 | 642.77 Mb
The TTC video course on this subject is easier to follow, but it's against the rules to upload it here, so I've included the coursebook in this audio series - and that should help. This is the real deal - not just an overview, like The Elegant Universe. After this, you're really going to understand String Theory.
One of the most exciting scientific adventures of all time is the search for the ultimate nature of physical reality, a hunt that in the past century has yielded such breakthroughs as Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, two theories that radically altered our picture of space, time, gravity, and the fundamental building blocks of matter.
The latest advance in this epic quest is string theoryknown as superstring or M-theory in its most recent versions. The "M" of M-theory is an arbitrary label, but some physicists believe it stands for mysterious or magical. Marvelous also qualifies, because there is something quite wonderful about this beautiful and startling idea.
Based on the concept that all matter is composed of inconceivably tiny filaments of vibrating energy, string theory has potentially staggering implications for our understanding of the universe.
Wouldn't you love to understand string theory at a deeper level than is available from popular articles or even book-length treatments? Aren't you eager to look over the shoulder of a prominent string theorist at workone who has a gift for explaining the subject to nonscientists and who has created computer-generated images to help make the concepts clear?
A Challenging Course in a Fascinating Field
The Teaching Company offers just such a guide in Professor S. James Gates Jr., director of the Center for String and Particle Theory at the University of Maryland. Professor Gates is an old hand in this very young field. In 1977 he wrote the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's first-ever doctoral dissertation on supersymmetry, the precursor to string theory.
In the midst of teaching, pursuing research, and writing scores of scientific papers over the past two decades, Dr. Gates has also presented nearly 100 public talks on string theory, honing a set of visual aids designed to convey the difficult mathematical ideas that underlie this subject to a lay audience.
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