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The Big bang and beyond [videorecording (DVD)] : exploring the early universe / Gary Felder.

by Felder, Gary, 1970-

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The Great Courses, 2022.

DVD 523.18 F312b

Big bang theory.

Expanding universe.

Cosmology -- History.

Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics. Astronomy.

Great courses (DVD)

Alternate title:

Great Courses. The Big bang and beyond [videorecording (DVD)] : exploring the early universe

[videorecording (DVD)] :

2 videodiscs (375 min.) : Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 105 p. : ill. ; 19 cm).

Contains 12 lectures; each lecture is approximately 30 minutes.

Course number 10080.

Closed-captioned.

Course guidebook Includes bibliographical references.

Disc 1: The Big bang changes everything -- The first few minutes of the Universe -- First galaxies, first stars, and dark matter -- How big was the Big bang? -- Mysteries that reshaped the Big bang model -- Inflation! the first fraction of a second -- Disc 2: What caused inflation: the Scalar field -- More than one Big bang in a multiverse? -- Other universes across other dimensions? -- The origins of the constants of nature -- From the Big bang to the universe's fate -- The future of early universe cosmology.

Lecturer: Gary Felder, Professor of Physics at Smith College.

Taught by Professor Gary Felder of Smith College, this course covers the history of the early universe starting with the Big Bang and continuing to the formation of the first stars and galaxies hundreds of millions of years later. Professor Felder also looks ahead to the ultimate fate of the universe and speculates on what may have happened before the Big Bang.

Filmed lectures.

Educational films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Teaching Company.

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