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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]], gravity[[cosmology]], and [[cosmologyphilosophy 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 is currently an External Professor at the [[Santa Fe Institute]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/sean-carroll |title=Santa Fe Institute Faculty Page |access-date=November 28, 2020 |archive-date=December 4, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204045255/https://www.santafe.edu/people/profile/sean-carroll |url-status=live }}</ref>, and the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at [[Johns Hopkins University]] in [[Baltimore]] from the summer of 2022.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1500576910853632000 | title=Sean Carroll on Twitter | date = March 7, 2022|access-date = March 8, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-03-06 |title=Johns Hopkins |url=https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2022/03/06/johns-hopkins/ |access-date=2022-03-12 |website=Sean Carroll |language=en-US}}</ref> He has been a contributor to the physics blog [[Cosmic Variance (blog)|Cosmic Variance]], and has published in scientific journals such as [[Nature (journal)|''Nature'']] as well as other publications, including ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Sky & Telescope]]'' and ''[[New Scientist]]''. He is known for atheism, critique of [[theism]] and defense of [[Metaphysical naturalism|naturalism]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-08-02|title=Atheist Physicist Sean Carroll: An Infinite Number of Universes Is More Plausible Than God|url=https://evolutionnews.org/2017/08/atheist-physicist-sean-carroll-an-infinite-number-of-universes-is-more-plausible-than-god/|access-date=2021-04-09|website=Evolution News|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{Cite web|last=Chan|first=Kai-yan|title=On Sean Carroll's Case for Naturalism and against Theism|url=https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2018/PSCF6-18Chan.pdf|url-status=live|accessdate=30 March 2021|website=American Scientific Affiliation}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite web|last=Premier|title=William Lane Craig & Sean Carroll debate God & Cosmology - Unbelievable?: Saturday 22 March 2014 2:30:00 am|url=https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/William-Lane-Craig-Sean-Carroll-debate-God-Cosmology-Unbelievable|access-date=2021-03-20|website=Premier Christian Radio|language=en-GB|archive-date=February 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225004426/https://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable/Episodes/William-Lane-Craig-Sean-Carroll-debate-God-Cosmology-Unbelievable|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|date=2016-05-08|title="The evidence is pretty incontrovertible that he doesn't exist": Stephen Colbert's favorite scientist on the universe, naturalism and finding meaning without God|url=https://www.salon.com/2016/05/08/the_evidence_is_pretty_incontrovertible_that_he_doesnt_exist_stephen_colberts_favorite_scientist_on_the_universe_naturalism_and_finding_meaning_without_god/|access-date=2021-06-05|website=Salon|language=en}}</ref> He is considered a prolific public speaker and science populariser.<ref name=":4"/><ref>{{Cite web|last=Carroll|first=Sean M.|title=Sean M Carroll {{!}} Speaker {{!}} TED|url=https://www.ted.com/speakers/sean_carroll|access-date=2021-06-05|website=www.ted.com|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2021-01-28|title=Sean Carroll|url=https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/45034|access-date=2021-06-05|website=www.aip.org|language=en}}</ref> In 2007, Carroll was named NSF Distinguished Lecturer by the [[National Science Foundation]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sean Carroll {{!}} Edge.org|url=https://www.edge.org/memberbio/sean_carroll|access-date=2021-06-05|website=www.edge.org|language=en}}</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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