Physics for Philosophers (and anybody else)

An exploration of general relativity, quantum mechanics, and cosmology and how they have impacted our lives and thought.

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The last century saw the very fundamental ideas of our universe not simply shaken but completely replaced with the astounding ideas of Einstein's relativity and the quanutm revolution. These ideas have been a major contributor to the ways in which contemporary society thinks, though the average person on the street is almost completely uninformed of what these ideas really are and how their own world view has been affected. We will explore these ideas together in an accessible manner (there will be a little math, primarily to enrich the conversation, but unneccessary to understand the concepts) and some of the accompanying revolutions in thought that have arisen from them.