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Impossible: Physics
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Taught by Professor Benjamin Schumacher
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6. Maxwell’s Demon
7. Absolute Zero
8. Predicting the Future
9. Visiting the Past
10. Thinking in Space-Time
11. Faster than Light
12. Black Holes and Curved Space-Time
13. A Spinning Universe, Wormholes, and Such
14. What Is Symmetry?
15. Mirror Worlds
16. Invasion of the Giant Insects
17. The Curious Quantum World
18. Impossible Exactness
19. Quantum Tunneling
20. Whatever Is Not Forbidden Is Compulsory
21. Entanglement and Quantum Cloning
22. Geometry and Conservation
23. Symmetry, Information, and Probability

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