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The discovery of the Higgs boson is a triumph of modern physics. The hunt for the Higgs was the subject of wide media attention due to the cost of the project, the complexity of the experiment, and the importance of its result. And, when it was announced with great fanfare in 2012 that physicists has succeeded in creating and identifying this all-important new particle, the discovery was celebrated around the world. And yet, virtually no one who read that news could tell you what, exactly, the Higgs boson was, and why its discovery was so important that we had to spend 10 billion dollars and build the single largest and most complex device in the history of mankind in order to find it. When you understand the details, this story ranks as one of the most thrilling in the history of modern science. Award-winning theoretical physicist Sean Carroll, a brilliant researcher as well as a gifted speaker who excels in explaining scientific concepts to the public, is perfectly positioned to tell this story. In this 12-lecture masterpiece of scientific reporting, you'll learn everything you need to know to fully grasp the significance of this discovery, including the basics of quantum mechanics; the four forces that comprise the Standard Model of particle physics; how these forces are transmitted by fields and particles; and the importance of symmetry in physics. You also get an in-depth view of the Large Hadron Collider - the largest machine ever built, and the device responsible for finally revealing the concept of the Higgs boson as reality. By the end, you'll understand how the Higgs boson verifies the final piece in the Standard Model of particle physics, and how its discovery validates and deepens our understanding of the universe.

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Life in the Cradle of Civilization

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Ronald Herzman

St. Augustine's Confessions

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The Joy of Science

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From its humble beginnings in the great river valleys of Iraq and Egypt to the dawn of the modern world, discover the essential nature, evolution, and perceptions of Western civilization. With these 48 lectures on the people, places, ideas, and events that make up The Foundations of Western Civilization, award-winning scholar and teacher Thomas F. X. Noble invites you to explore the unique human experience in what has come to be called "Western civilization." Your learning in this course will cover the latter stages of the Agricultural Revolution to the doorstep of the Scientific Revolution, from roughly 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600, when the "foundations" of the modern West come into view. Professor Noble has a master lecturer's assurance and a careful scholar's eye for precision and the telling fact. He offers a history of what has been truly "foundational" across millennia in the life of the West, that most unusual of world civilizations. Did the Roman Empire really "fall"? What did people at the time experience? What exactly was being reborn in the Renaissance? Is it historically accurate to speak of the "Protestant Reformation"? Why do we think of the Middle Ages as just that-i.e., a time somehow sandwiched between two other (and presumably superior) times? Did the brilliant intellectuals and writers who clustered around the court of Charlemagne see it that way? You will find in these lectures everything from a thumbnail sketch of the Assyrians (cruel practitioners of state terror) to a detailed analysis of how the Roman constitution worked. For example, the word "veto," which means "I forbid," was literally shouted into the Senate chamber by Roman tribunes listening from just outside the door. Professor Noble will walk you through history as it develops, taking into account such themes as ecology, geography, and climate; government and economics; religion; work and leisure; philosophy; literature; art and architecture; and even virtues, values, and aesthetics. This broad and panoramic series will help you pull an enormous sweep of history together into one coherent-though by no means closed-framework. By surveying Mesopotamia to modernity, and everything in between, you will pursue answers to the questions of what "the West" most essentially is or has been thought to be, and what makes it distinctive among other world civilizations-not necessarily better, but surely unique.

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Bart Ehrman

The greatest controversies of early Christian history

Timothy Taylor

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Daniel M. Cobb

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Jerry Z. Muller

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Ford Cochran

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Professor Michael E. Wysession

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The Higgs Boson and Beyond

Amanda H. Podany (Instructed by)

Ancient Mesopotamia

William Cook; Ronald Herzman

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Daniel Robinson

The Great Ideas of Philosophy

Robert Hazen

The Joy of Science

Anthony Goodman

Understanding the Human Body

Thomas F. X. Noble (Instructed by)

The Foundations of Western Civilization