{"id":189963,"date":"2024-05-24T01:23:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T06:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/physicist-sean-carroll-and-the-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe"},"modified":"2024-05-24T01:23:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T06:23:25","slug":"physicist-sean-carroll-and-the-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/physicist-sean-carroll-and-the-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe","title":{"rendered":"Physicist Sean Carroll and the biggest ideas in the universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JsZ1aB5egEQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sean Carroll, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University, spoke at the <a href=\"https:\/\/thebellhouseny.com\">Bell House<\/a> in Brooklyn, New York, in an event presented by New York City\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/secretscienceclub.blogspot.com\">Secret Science Club<\/a>. He talked about quantum field theory, which is now considered the definitive explanation of what reality is made of. So, pretty important stuff.<\/p>\n<p>His new book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0593186605\/?tag=lifeboatfound-20\">The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Quanta and Fields<\/a><\/em> was released this week. It\u2019s the second in a three-book series in which he goes through the important ideas of Physics for non-academics, but actually using and carefully explaining the equations that physicists use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Carroll, a physicist at Johns Hopkins University, spoke at the Bell House in Brooklyn, New York, in an event presented by New York City\u2019s Secret Science Club. He talked about quantum field theory, which is now considered the definitive explanation of what reality is made of. So, pretty important stuff. His new book The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}