Join us for a talk by Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and acclaimed science writer, about the first book in his new trilogy, The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. The first volume, titled Space, Time, and Motion, explains the fundamentals of classical physics in unique and compelling detail. Learn how physicists really think about the laws of nature!

“Sean Carroll has achieved something I thought impossible: a bridge between popular science and the mathematical universe of working physicists. Magnificent!”  
— Brian Clegg, author of Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World

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Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University. His research focuses on the foundations of physics, including issues in quantum mechanics, spacetime, cosmology, and emergence. He is the author of several books, most recently The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, Vol. 1: Space, Time, and Motion. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Sloan Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the American Physical Society, the American Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of London, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the host of the weekly Mindscape podcast.
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