PHYS 012: The Big Bang: Forces in the Early Universe

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Units: 4

Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour

Catalog page 369

Prerequisites: none

Description: Explores our current understanding of the origins of the universe in a nontechnical manner using basic scientific literature. Topics include the “Scientific Process - How a Theory Comes to be,” the fundamental forces of nature and their unification, the structure of the vacuum, and the beginning and end of the universe.

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