- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- Introduction
- 1 Chance
- 2 Chaos
- 3 This week’s quiz
- 4 Summary of Week 1
- Introduction
- 1 What is matter?
- 2 Symmetry
- 3 Symmetries in particle physics
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 2
- Introduction
- 1 The gaps in classical physics
- 2 Waves or particles?
- 3 Quantum theory
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary of Week 3
- Introduction
- 1 Our place in space
- 2 How far can we see?
- 3 The observable universe
- 4 The most distant objects
- 5 Light from the edge
- 6 Beyond the edge
- 7 The wider universe
- 8 The future of the observable universe
- 9 Is the universe finite or infinite?
- 10 This week’s quiz
- 11 Summary of Week 4
- Introduction
- 1 What is time?
- 2 How time is measured
- 3 Speed of light revisited
- 4 Your time is not my time
- 5 Curved space and gravity
- 6 Time and gravity
- 7 Black holes
- 8 The end of time?
- 9 This week’s quiz
- 10 Summary of Week 5
- Introduction
- 1 What is consciousness?
- 2 Inside the brain
- 3 Studying the brain
- 4 The brain at work
- 5 Who is conscious?
- 6 Theories of consciousness
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 Summary of Week 6
- Introduction
- 1 Picturing infinity
- 2 Hilbert’s Infinite Hotel
- 3 Measuring infinity
- 4 Proofs
- 5 The infinitely small
- 6 The paradox of fractals
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 Summary of Week 7
- Introduction
- 1 Mathematics
- 2 A brief excursion into philosophy
- 3 What is a theory?
- 4 Lost in maths?
- 5 The limitations of mathematics
- 6 Gödel’s incompleteness theorems
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 Summary of Week 8
- 9 Conclusion: what we cannot know
- Where next?
- Tell us what you think
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
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