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The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality

By: Don Lincoln, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Don Lincoln
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At the end of his career, Albert Einstein was pursuing a dream far more ambitious than the theory of relativity. He was trying to find an equation that explained all physical reality - a theory of everything. He failed, but others have taken up the challenge in a remarkable quest that is shedding light on unsuspected secrets of the cosmos.

Experimental physicist and award-winning educator Dr. Don Lincoln of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory takes you on this exciting journey in The Theory of Everything: The Quest to Explain All Reality. Suitable for the intellectually curious at all levels and assuming no background beyond basic high-school math, these 24 half-hour lectures cover recent developments at the forefront of particle physics and cosmology, while delving into the history of the centuries-long search for this holy grail of science.

You trace the dream of a theory of everything through Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, Bohr, Schrödinger, Feynman, Gell-Mann, Weinberg, and other great physicists, charting their progress toward an all-embracing, unifying theory. Their resulting equations are the masterpieces of physics, which Dr. Lincoln explains in fascinating and accessible detail. Studying them is like touring a museum of great works of art - works that are progressing toward an ultimate, as-yet-unfinished masterpiece.

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Covers lots ground and is well presented. I learnt quite a few new points. Fascinating question.

Comprehensive survey of this question

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Mr Lincoln..Fantastic, absolutely fantastic. Well spoken, clear even for the less educated! Would love to have more from Dr Lincoln. The way it was articulated makes every word stream so well. The lectures flow nicely!

Fantastic, absolutely fantastic. More please!

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Probably some of the best stuff on audible writing this review asking for more content like this.

Great ToE series for the layman

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This is the best thing I have had from Audible yet. I will be listening to this over and over.

Audible, make more like this available, please.

an excellent series of lectures

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Engaging historical data and speculation establishing past achievements and providing justification for ongoing colider expenditure

Interesting particle/quantum physics history and speculation

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This course is Bit complicated, also the experience without videos is not so great, thanks.

Bit complicated

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This was a very interesting listen. I’ll listen to it again but in reality it’s way over my head as someone that likes science but didn’t go to college

Good but not for everyone

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Thought it would be like Bill Bryson’s book but this is for the smart people who have already studied chemistry. Way over my head.

To Techo for me.

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