This course contains the use of artificial intelligence. Science advances when we stop treating contradictions as mistakes and begin treating them as clues. This course explores the most fascinating paradoxes in science and shows how impossible-looking questions can reveal deeper laws of nature.
We begin with a simple idea: common sense is useful for everyday life, but it is often unreliable when we study time, light, infinity, quantum mechanics, information, and the universe itself. What if the speed of light were 10 percent slower? At first, this sounds like a small change. But such a change could affect GPS, time dilation, particle physics, stellar processes, and even the structure of atoms. One altered assumption can shake the entire architecture of reality.
Through carefully selected examples, you will explore paradoxes such as Zeno’s paradox, the twin paradox of relativity, Olbers’ paradox, Schrödinger’s cat, Maxwell’s demon, and paradoxes connected to black holes and information. These are not just entertaining puzzles. They are stress tests for scientific theories. They force us to ask which assumptions are hidden, which ideas are incomplete, and where a deeper explanation may be waiting.
