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'''Sean Michael Carroll''' (born October 5, 1966) is an American [[Theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]] and philosopher who specializes in [[quantum mechanics]], [[cosmology]], and [[philosophy of science]]. Formerly a research professor in the [[Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics]] in the [[California Institute of Technology]] (Caltech) Department of Physics,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://burkeinstitute.caltech.edu/people/faculty |title=Caltech Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics Faculty Page |access-date=February 21, 2015 |archive-date=May 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508215833/http://burkeinstitute.caltech.edu/people/faculty |url-status=live }}</ref>
He has appeared on the [[History Channel]]'s [[The Universe (TV series)|''The Universe'']], Science Channel's ''[[Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman]]'', ''[[Closer to Truth]]'' (broadcast on [[PBS]]),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.closertotruth.com/contributor/sean-carroll/profile|title=Sean Carroll – Closer to Truth|website=www.closertotruth.com|access-date=February 23, 2017|archive-date=February 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224131618/https://www.closertotruth.com/contributor/sean-carroll/profile|url-status=live}}</ref> and Comedy Central's ''[[The Colbert Report]]''. Carroll is the author of ''Spacetime And Geometry'', a graduate-level textbook in general relativity, and has also recorded lectures for [[The Great Courses]] on cosmology, the physics of time and the [[Higgs boson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/professors/professor_detail.aspx?pid=339|title=Professor Bio Page|access-date=July 31, 2013|archive-date=March 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130317123414/http://www.thegreatcourses.com/tgc/professors/professor_detail.aspx?pid=339|url-status=live}}</ref> He is also the author of four popular books: ''From Eternity to Here'' about the [[arrow of time]], ''The Particle at the End of the Universe'' about the Higgs boson, ''The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself'' about [[ontology]], and ''Something Deeply Hidden'' about the foundations of quantum mechanics. He began a podcast in 2018 called ''Mindscape'', in which he interviews other experts and intellectuals coming from a variety of disciplines, including "[s]cience, society, philosophy, culture, arts and ideas" in general.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ |title=Mindscape podcast |access-date=November 14, 2018 |archive-date=November 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114141448/https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He has also published a Youtube video series entitled "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe" which provides physics instruction at a popular-science level but with equations and a mathematical basis, rather than mere analogy. The series has become the basis of a new book series with the installment, "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion", published in September 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/biggestideas/ |title=The Biggest Ideas in the Universe |access-date=January 3, 2023 |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017074123/https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/biggestideas/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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