Sean M Carroll
Author
Publisher
Dutton
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
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
296 pages : illustrations ; 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 inhis 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
Series
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
12 CDs (12 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 172 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
Designed for nonscientists as well as those with a background in physics, this course shows how a feature of the world that we all experience connects us to the instant of the formation of the universe-- and possibly to a multiverse that is unimaginably larger and more varied than the known cosmos.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
x, 341 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 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
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"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" treatmentof 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...
Series
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 172 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
"Time is as mysterious as it is familiar ..." An exploration of the mysteries of why time works the way it does "addressed by physics, philosophy, biology, neuroscience, and cosmology"--p. 1.
Series
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (6 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 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.