Revealing Reality

This introductory course with Professor Brian Greene covers three main topics: special relativity, general relativity, and quantum mechanics. These topics represent the extremes of speed, mass, and length in nature. As humans, we experience nature in a limited way, and as much as we may believe that we know how the world works, we are limited by only a few orders of magnitude in speed, mass, and length. Our experience is also colored by the way nature behaves within those orders of magnitude. This course addresses the tension between our experience of reality and the true nature of reality.