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/
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哈 也到我来当第一个阅读新鲜出炉的好书的时候了
评分“颜色科学”的那一章不错: the Hard Problem is just a matter of conceptional confusion
评分Poetic naturalism最佳宣传手册
评分一本加州理工學院物理學家寫的哲學/倫理學的書,可能會是一本非常重要的書。越來越感覺,現代哲學就是物理學、腦神經學+邏輯學。(對我一個高一就物理課結業的文科生來說,有點難) 書中的哲學觀叫「詩意自然主義」。郝景芳最近在開智大會上那篇演講是對其近乎完美的詮釋。(清華物理和加州理工物理的握手)也許,這只是尚未被稀釋給大眾吸收的常識? 書以引用加繆做結尾。存在主義本身倡導詩意,是「詩意自然主義」粗糲的前身,加繆也顯得更有勇氣。
评分哈 也到我来当第一个阅读新鲜出炉的好书的时候了
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