Sean M. Carroll
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
ix, 470 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"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.
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 22 cm
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (6 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (88 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Description
In this course you will investigate what makes the discovery of the Higgs boson particle so important, how the discovery was made, and what implications the discovery has for the future of physics.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 341 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Description
Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists, has been found. Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to meet the scientists and explain this landmark event. We only discovered the electron just over a hundred years ago and considering where that took us-- from nuclear energy to quantum computing-- the inventions...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Caltech physicist and New York Times bestselling author Sean Carroll shows that there are multiple copies of you. And everyone else. Really. Something Deeply Hidden begins with the news that physics is in a crisis. Quantum mechanics underlies all of modern physics but major gaps in the theory have been ignored since 1927. Science popularizers keep telling us how weird it is, how contradictory, how impossible it is to understand. Academics discourage...