Course Code: SCI 3999
Academic Year: 2024-2025
In the last century, the landscape of science has been covered with some of the strangest ideas and discoveries in history: The Big Bang, Time Travel, Baby Universes, Black Holes, Wormholes, Superstrings, Warped Space-Time, Faster-Than-Light-Travel, Parallel Universes, Quantum Strangeness, Teleportation, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and, no doubt, something even weirder just around the corner. These are all terms that most people have heard and read about and even seen used as convenient plot devices in movies, TV and literature. But, as is usually the case in modern physics, truth is often stranger than fiction.In this course, we will explore some of the strange discoveries, concepts, theories and interpretations that have riddled modern physics. This course is open to students without a mathematics or science background, although a willingness to engage in some basic mathematics and use of scientific notation will enrich the learning experience.