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/
這是一本很困難的書,作者的論述,由量子、原子、分子、有機體、生命演化、基因遺傳、神經科學、牛頓力學、邏輯推理、相對論、天文宇宙、以至延伸到神學、哲學等各層級領域,涉及的範疇既廣且深,最後作者以一個核心理論方程式做為結尾〈說似簡潔、卻很不易理解、且不會是最終...
評分拿到手发现校对居然是Ent,期待一下子就高了起来。 现在的科普像科研一样,愈发趋向具体和专门,比如讲进化论或者心智科学,毕竟能把一个问题讲清楚就不容易了。 但肖恩·卡罗尔这本书开头就是本体论和认识论两个宏大议题,仿佛回到了亚里士多德的哲学物理时代,这些问题宏大到...
評分〖树评〗 《读家教练:生命意义的涌现与演化》 人性,美感,诗意, 智慧本在文字之外。 生命,智能,演化, 嵌入多维数网络中, 联结量变引起质变。 叠加,溶解,漩涡, 时间知觉情感重构, 意群融贯熵增复杂, 新陈代谢破茧化蝶。 变焦,回顾,展望, 自由意志记忆剧本, 弥散...
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評分“顔色科學”的那一章不錯: the Hard Problem is just a matter of conceptional confusion
评分Better to read than not. But still prefer Brian Greene.
评分一本加州理工學院物理學傢寫的哲學/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,這隻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Better to read than not. But still prefer Brian Greene.
评分內容好雜,不像想象中的物理科普書,然而對世界的認識本來也就不是能由物理學完全說清楚的。
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