Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. His research focuses on fundamental issues in quantum mechanics, gravitation, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He has wide-ranging interests, including in philosophy, complexity theory, and information.
Carroll is an active science communicator, and has been blogging regularly since 2004. His textbook "Spacetime and Geometry" has been adopted by a number of universities for their graduate courses in general relativity. He is a frequent public speaker, and has appeared on TV shows such as The Colbert Report and Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman. He has produced a set of lectures for The Teaching Company on dark matter and dark energy, and another on the nature of time. He has served as a science consultant for films such as Thor and TRON: Legacy, as well as for TV shows such as Fringe and Bones.
His 2010 popular book, "From Eternity to Here," explained the arrow of time and connected it with the origin of our universe. "The Particle at the End of the Universe," about the Large Hadron Collider and the quest to discover the Higgs boson, was released November 2012. "The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself" will appear in May 2016.
More information at http://preposterousuniverse.com/
发表于2025-03-11
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评分刘慈欣在他的小说《排险者》中,提出了一个判断文明是否开始对宇宙大统一理论探寻产生兴趣的标准:当这个文明的第一个个体开始仰望星空时。可以武断地说,每一个人心中都向往着大图景,渴望对于世界的本质性规律得到理解;然而,“正确”、严谨地谈论“大图景”而并非流于空谈...
评分最初被邀请读这本书的时候,我是犹豫了一下的,毕竟这种书名(特别是副题)实在有点像那些宣称自己推翻了相对论的民科会写的名堂。不过查了豆瓣简介后,觉得基本还是靠谱的。 拿到书先翻目录,有几章的标题很抓眼球——《诗性自然主义》(第2章)、《现实涌现而来》(第12章)...
评分刘慈欣在他的小说《排险者》中,提出了一个判断文明是否开始对宇宙大统一理论探寻产生兴趣的标准:当这个文明的第一个个体开始仰望星空时。可以武断地说,每一个人心中都向往着大图景,渴望对于世界的本质性规律得到理解;然而,“正确”、严谨地谈论“大图景”而并非流于空谈...
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Better to read than not. But still prefer Brian Greene.
评分内容好杂,不像想象中的物理科普书,然而对世界的认识本来也就不是能由物理学完全说清楚的。
评分3 billion heartbeats, time is ticking.
评分3 billion heartbeats, time is ticking.
评分可以给5星的物理学科普读物。用laws of nature来讲universe, life (of origins), morality, religion, human beings, logic, philosophy。量子力学解释的很通俗易懂,对sci-fi常常提到的many-world和multi-universe做了区分。由于偶个人现在没心思看和religion, morality and philosophy的部分,就没给5星。还有,要注意的就是书里讲的理论,只是(因为无法证明的)众多理论中作者支持的一个。
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