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Course Description Schedule Nuggets, Treasures Clock	Title page, Preface and Table of Contents for Einstein for Everyone Introduction: the Questions      Special Relativity Special Relativity: the Principles Special Relativity: Clocks and Rods Special Relativity: Adding Velocities Special Relativity: the Relativity of Simultaneity Is Special Relativity Paradoxical? E=mc2 Origins of Special Relativity Einstein's Pathway to Special Relativity      Spacetime Spacetime Spacetime and the Relativity of Simultaneity Spacetime, Tachyons, Twins and Clocks What is a four dimensional space like?      Philosophical Significance of the        Special Theory of Relativity. Skeptical Morals Morals About Theory and Evidence Morals About Time The Conventionality of Simultaneity      Non-Euclidean Geometry Euclidean Geometry: The First Great Science Euclid's Fifth Postulate Non-Euclidean Geometry: A Sample Construction Non-Euclidean Geometry and Curved Spaces Spaces of Constant Curvature Spaces of Variable Curvature      General Relativity General Relativity Gravity Near a Massive Body Einstein's Pathway to General Relativity      Cosmology and Black Holes Relativistic Cosmology Time Travel Universes Our Universe: What We See Big Bang Cosmology Must There Have Been a Big Bang? Black Holes Einstein on Black Holes A Better Picture of Black Holes      Philosophical Significance of the        General Theory of Relativity. Geometric Morals The Ontology of Space and Time: The Relativity of Accelerated Motion The Ontology of Space and Time: The Hole Argument Theory and Evidence Cosmos and Infinity      Quantum Theory Atoms and the Quantum Origins of Quantum Theory Quantum Theory of Waves and Particles A Complex Wave The Measurement Problem Time Travels with Schrödinger's Cat Einstein on the Completeness of Quantum Theory Retrospect Einstein as the Greatest of the Nineteenth Century Physicists	0. Warm Up 1. Principle of Relativity 2. Relativity of Simultaneity 3. Origins of Special Relativity 3a E = mc2 review questions 4. Spacetime 5. Philosophical Significance 6. Curvature 7. General Relativity 8. Relativistic Cosmology 9. Big Bang Cosmology I 10. Big Bang Cosmology II 11. Black Holes 12. Origins of Quantum Theory 13. Problems of Quantum Theory

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