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Quiz: Can You Trace Our Modern Inventions to the Founders of Quantum Physics?
How have the theories of Einstein and other key physicists influenced modern technology? Test yourself in our fun quiz. […]
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Physics
Particle Physics and the Great Particle Accelerator
To discover more particles, it’s necessary to build particle accelerators with high power and energy. The more energy the machines have, the more massive the number of particles produced. […]
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89-Year-Old Man Earns PhD in Physics, Achieving Lifelong Goal
An 89-year-old retiree has fulfilled his dream of becoming a physicist. Manfred Steiner of Rhode Island earned his Ph.D. in physics after defending his dissertation at Brown University in Providence. Physics governs nearly everything we do. […]
Philosophy
How Scientists View Quantum Physics
Even though scientists base their beliefs on facts, they disagree on how they interpret their theories and this separates them into realists and non-realists. […]
History of Science
Finding Equilibrium: The Physics of Classical Economics
In classical economics, the idea was that we ought to be able to model the flow of money in the marketplace on our vision of energy flowing in a physical system. […]
Science
How Einstein Challenged Newtonian Physics
For centuries, Newtonian physics was the dominant worldview. However, Einstein shook up the scientific community with his groundbreaking papers on light quanta; atoms; and, eventually, his special theory of relativity. […]
Science
Medicine and Metaphysics: Advancing Our Understanding of the Body
How do science and philosophy work together? In the new scientific paradigm of modernity, where do concepts come from? Examine how evidence and ideas have come together in modern medicine, and how metaphysics and medicine intersect. […]
Science
Metaphysics and the Human Body
Before the Enlightenment, the metaphysical view of the human body was that of a machine, and all problems with the machine could only be caused by parts of the machine malfunctioning. Removing or fixing those parts was the job of surgeons, and the idea that tiny animals inside us could make us sick—that seemed silly. But a new scientific paradigm born of the Enlightenment changed humanity’s view of the body. […]
Science
Understanding Metaphysics: Descartes’s Ghost in the Machine
Thanks to the Enlightenment and scientific advances over the past 300 years, our understanding of reality has been redefined. But when we talk about redefining reality, we are presuming first that there is a reality and that it’s something we define. Philosophers since the 1700s have been fascinated by this question of knowing reality. It is what philosophers call metaphysics, and Rene Descartes was the godfather of this powerful field of study. […]
The Great Courses Learning Paths—Physics
From the laws of motion first formulated 300 years ago by Sir Isaac Newton to the latest marvels of contemporary research, this series of physics courses allows you to share the joy of humanity’s greatest ongoing adventure of discovery and exploration. […]