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THE MYSTERIOUS WORLD INSIDE THE ATOM: QUANTUM MECHANICS WITHOUT MATH - PROF. ANDREW FRAKNOI

This nonmathematical course, designed for the science beginner, examines and illuminates the atomic world that lies beneath our everyday conception of reality. Using historical anecdotes, analogies from everyday life, thought experiments, and touches of humor, we will explore atomic theory from the Greeks through today, and look especially at the revolution in our understanding of the world of the very small, begun by Einstein and others at the start of the 20th century. We’ll focus particularly on quantum mechanics, and its bizarre, yet experimentally verified, ideas of how things work inside the atom. We’ll cover the work of Einstein, Rutherford, Schroedinger, Heisenberg, among others, all explained in everyday language. We will conclude with an introduction to quantum black holes, with which Hawking combined two wildly different arenas of science that were thought to be incompatible. No background in science or math will be assumed or necessary, but some of the ideas might just make your brain sizzle.