This course aims to engage high school students in a live Q+A session with Brian Greene, covering topics such as black holes, time travel, the big bang, and the multiverse. The learning outcomes include gaining insights into complex scientific concepts and sparking curiosity in physics. The course teaches skills such as critical thinking, questioning, and exploring scientific theories. The teaching method involves a live discussion format with interactive Q+A sessions. The intended audience for this course is high school students interested in physics and astronomy.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
String Theory
Theory of Everything
Black Holes
Hawking Radiation
Gaia Telescope Mission
Where did all the stuff for the Big Bang come from
Does inflation assume a preexisting space
Are there physically viable ways to construct closed timelike curves
How can anything we see in our particular part of the universe be predicted scientifically
Is time already present
What is a Quantum Vacuum
Alexa Briggs
Hubble Tension
accretion discs
curvature and gravity
Multiverse
Finding Solutions to Equations
Taught by
World Science Festival
