Topic One: Introduction and Zeno

• 8/23/04 Lecture 1 – Introduction:
• 8/25/04 Lecture 2 – How do things change? Handout on Newton
• 8/30/04 Lecture 3 – Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox pp1-4
• 9/1/04 Lecture 4 – Supertasks and Zeno's Arrow pp 4-9
• 9/6/04 Labor Day
  
• 9/8/04 – Lecture 5 – Discrete Space and Time + Assignments. pp9-13
  

Topic Two: The Shape of Space

• 9/13/04 Lecture 6 – An End to Space? pp14-21
• 9/15/04 Class cancelled due to flooding
• 9/20/04 Lecture 7 – Dimensions pp29-34
• 9/22/04 Lecture 8 – Three Dimensions? pp21-29
  
• 9/27/04 Lecture 9 – Non-Euclidean Geometry pp35-42
  
• 9/29/04 Lecture 10 – Measuring Space pp 42-51
  

Topic Three: Absolute and Relative Space

• 10/4/04 Lecture 11 – Space and Matter pp 52-55
• 10/6/04 Lecture 12 – Absolute and Relative Motion pp 56-60
• 10/11/04 Lecture 13 – What is Handedness? pp 61-3
  
• 10/13/04 Lecture 14 – Is Handedness an Intrinsic or Extrinsic Property? pp 63-8
• 10/18/04 Lecture 15 – Mirrors and Twisted Space pp 68-73

Topic Four: Time

• 10/20/04 Lecture 16 – The Block Universe pp 74-81
• 10/25/04 Lecture 17 – The Feeling of Time Passing pp 81-88
• 10/27/04 Lecture 18 – The Problem with Time Travel pp 89-92
• 11/1/04 Lecture 19 – Possible and Impossible Time Travel pp92-99
• 11/3/04 Lecture 20 – Why Can't I Stop My Younger Self? pp 99-106
  

Topic Five: Spacetime

• 11/8/04 Lecture 21 – Relativity of Simultaneity Thorne Ch 1
• 11/11/04 Lecture 22 – Spacetime Thorne Ch 1
• 11/15/04 Lecture 23 – cancelled due to illness
  
• 11/18/04 Lecture 24 – Shrinking lecture notes
• 11/22/04 Lecture 25 – Light Signals lecture notes
• 11/25/04 Lecture 26 – Gravity and Curved Spacetime Thorne Ch 2 – attendance not required
  

Topic Six: Quantum Philosophy

• 11/29/04 Lecture 27 – Quantum Philosophy I lecture notes
• 12/1/04 Lecture 28 – Quantum Philosophy II lecture notes