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/
發表於2025-01-10
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肖恩·卡羅爾,真是深得我心。 我很久之前,就想過,對人進行量子層麵的復製,所帶來的同一性睏境,結果他在這本書裏居然也提到瞭,而且嵌入在一個“大圖景”中,帶著我進入瞭更廣闊的境地。 在統一場論和“我該如何生活”之間,有著漫長的距離,兩者常常看起來毫不相關,盡管...
評分 評分拿到手發現校對居然是Ent,期待一下子就高瞭起來。 現在的科普像科研一樣,愈發趨嚮具體和專門,比如講進化論或者心智科學,畢竟能把一個問題講清楚就不容易瞭。 但肖恩·卡羅爾這本書開頭就是本體論和認識論兩個宏大議題,仿佛迴到瞭亞裏士多德的哲學物理時代,這些問題宏大到...
評分劉慈欣在他的小說《排險者》中,提齣瞭一個判斷文明是否開始對宇宙大統一理論探尋産生興趣的標準:當這個文明的第一個個體開始仰望星空時。可以武斷地說,每一個人心中都嚮往著大圖景,渴望對於世界的本質性規律得到理解;然而,“正確”、嚴謹地談論“大圖景”而並非流於空談...
評分劉慈欣在他的小說《排險者》中,提齣瞭一個判斷文明是否開始對宇宙大統一理論探尋産生興趣的標準:當這個文明的第一個個體開始仰望星空時。可以武斷地說,每一個人心中都嚮往著大圖景,渴望對於世界的本質性規律得到理解;然而,“正確”、嚴謹地談論“大圖景”而並非流於空談...
圖書標籤: 物理 哲學 科普 科學 Sean_M_Carroll physics science universe
又接受瞭一次貝葉斯學派的洗禮。後半部分翻來覆去地靠實用主義來反擊二元論,略討人嫌
評分Better to read than not. But still prefer Brian Greene.
評分3 billion heartbeats, time is ticking.
評分我今年讀過的最好的書
評分可以給5星的物理學科普讀物。用laws of nature來講universe, life (of origins), morality, religion, human beings, logic, philosophy。量子力學解釋的很通俗易懂,對sci-fi常常提到的many-world和multi-universe做瞭區分。由於偶個人現在沒心思看和religion, morality and philosophy的部分,就沒給5星。還有,要注意的就是書裏講的理論,隻是(因為無法證明的)眾多理論中作者支持的一個。
The Big Picture 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
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