Sean Carroll

Sean M. Carroll

"The award-winning Caltech physicist and author of The Particle at the End of the Universe shares sweeping perspectives into how human purpose and meaning naturally fit into a scientific worldview,"--Amazon.com.

On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

The Big Picture

The holy grail of modern physics is reconciling quantum mechanics with Einstein's general relativity--his theory of curved spacetime. Carroll argues that the refusal to face up to the mysteries of quantum mechanics has blinded people, and that spacetime and gravity naturally emerge from a deeper reality called the wave function.tion.

Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

Something Deeply Hidden

A cofounder of the blog Cosmic Variance outlines a comprehensive vision of the universe that attempts to explain why time moves forward, building on a premise that time owes its existence to conditions before the Big Bang and may be explained by theoretical space-time properties.

The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

From Eternity to Here

Space, Time, and Motion

Biggest Ideas in the Universe

An Introduction to General Relativity

Spacetime and Geometry

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books A Best Science Book of the Year for the Guardian, Financial Times, and New Scientist It was the universe’s most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It had to be found. But projects as big as CERN’s Large Hadron Collider don’t happen without incredible risks – or occasional skulduggery. In the definitive account of the greatest science story of our time, acclaimed physicist Sean Carroll reveals the insights, rivalry, and wonder that fuelled the Higgs discovery, and takes us on a riveting and irresistible ride to the very edge of physics today.

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize

The Particle at the End of the Universe

In the second book of this already internationally acclaimed series, Sean Carroll, the most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts, digs deep into matter itself. What is the universe made of? In his quest to redefine the “popular” treatment of the biggest ideas in the universe, Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to physics and math as reviewer after reviewer has attested. Adventuring in the math of fields, he now intrepidly guides readers into the fantastic depths of The Standard Model of particle physics illuminating the mysteries of quantum reality. The universe is made of atoms and Sean Carroll explains exactly what that means and how we know it.

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Quanta and Fields

Büyük Resim

The instant New York Times bestseller about humanity's place in the universe—and how we understand it. “Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times “Succeeds spectacularly.”—Science “A tour de force.”—Salon Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions: Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? Do human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview? In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level—and then how each connects to the other. Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique. Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning. The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.

20 years after Stephen Hawking's 9-million-copy selling 'A Brief History of Time', pioneering theoretical physicist Sean Carroll takes our investigation into the nature of time to the next level.

Wie die Quantenmechanik unser Weltbild verändert

Was ist die Welt und wenn ja, wie viele

A Partícula no Fim do Universo

Dall'eternità a qui

Dove siamo? E perché siamo proprio qui? Le nostre credenze, speranze e sogni hanno qualche significato là fuori nel vuoto? Il pensiero e le intenzioni degli uomini potranno mai accordarsi con una visione scientifica del mondo? Sean Carroll è considerato uno dei piú importanti fisici teorici della sua generazione, in grado di affrontare la questione del bosone di Higgs e delle dimensioni alternative dell'universo insieme ai problemi fondamentali dell'esistenza dell'uomo. In questo libro mette a frutto i suoi studi scientifici per confrontarsi con il mondo della conoscenza, le leggi della natura e le domande piú profonde sulla vita, la morte e il nostro posto all'interno del tutto. Attraverso brevi capitoli, ricchi di sorprendenti aneddoti storici, episodi personali e rigorose spiegazioni, scopriamo le differenze e le relazioni tra diversi mondi: quantistico, cosmico e umano. Quella di Carroll è una visione scientifica dell'universo senza precedenti, dove la meccanica quantistica e la relatività generale incrociano filosofia ed esperienze quotidiane e che, muovendosi dal big bang al significato dell'esistenza, ambisce a restituire una spiegazione complessiva della realtà. Un tour de force da affiancare alle opere di Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett ed Edward O. Wilson. «Un libro che tutti dovrebbero leggere». Carlo Rovelli

Sulle origini della vita, del significato e dell'universo

A partir de la entropía, la física cuántica, los viajes en el tiempo o el significado de la vida, Sean Carroll profundiza en uno de los grandes enigmas de la ciencia: ¿Qué es el tiempo? Hace veinte años Stephen Hawking intentó explicar el tiempo a través de la comprensión del big bang. Ahora, en Desde la eternidad hasta hoy, Sean Carroll, uno de los mejores físicos teóricos del mundo, nos ofrece una teoría revolucionaria que ilustra cómo la flecha del tiempo existe gracias a condiciones previas al big bang, una era con la que Einstein ni siquiera soñó, y que explica que nuestro universo convive con universos paralelos en los que el tiempo viaja en dirección opuesta. Autoridades en el campo de la física teórica opinan... «Una exploración cautivadora de los misterios del tiempo.» Brian Green «Lúcido y profundo.» Kip S. Thome Y la prensa afirma... «Desde la eternidad hasta hoy es una de las mejores explicaciones de los misterios asombrosos de nuestro universo.» The Wall Street Journal «Carroll utiliza un lenguaje coloquial y accesible para explorar los desafíos de la cosmología.» Library Journal

En busca de la teoría definitiva del tiempo

Desde la eternidad hasta hoy

"An accessible and engaging exploration of the mysteries of time." -Brian Greene, author of The Elegant Universe Twenty years ago, Stephen Hawking tried to explain time by understanding the Big Bang. Now, Sean Carroll says we need to be more ambitious. One of the leading theoretical physicists of his generation, Carroll delivers a dazzling and paradigm-shifting theory of time's arrow that embraces subjects from entropy to quantum mechanics to time travel to information theory and the meaning of life. From Eternity to Here is no less than the next step toward understanding how we came to exist, and a fantastically approachable read that will appeal to a broad audience of armchair physicists, and anyone who ponders the nature of our world.

The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality. Physics offers deep insights into the workings of the universe but those insights come in the form of equations that often look like gobbledygook. Sean Carroll shows that they are really like meaningful poems that can help us fly over sierras to discover a miraculous multidimensional landscape alive with radiant giants, warped space-time, and bewilderingly powerful forces. High school calculus is itself is a centuries-old marvel as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa. And it may come as a surprise the extent to which all our most cutting-edge ideas about black holes are built on the math calculus enables. No one else could so smoothly guide readers to grasping the very equation Einstein used to describe his theory of general relativity. In the tradition of the legendary Richard Feynman lectures presented sixty years ago, this book is an inspiring, dazzling introduction to a way of seeing that will resonate across cultural and generational boundaries for many years to come.

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