Splash Biography

"We can imagine that this complicated array of moving things which constitutes "the world" is something like a great chess game being played by the gods, and we are observers of the game. We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics..." -Richard Feynman The course will start with the early human civilizations and examples from what kind of explanations they came up with to explain the Universe. The narrative will follow the historical context with the enlightenment and the birth of scientific method, and the paradigm shift of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. Finally the modern scientific models of the universe and their extraordinary results(Black Holes, The Big Bang, Supernovae etc.) will be discussed without diving into the math.