Sean Carroll

Bio

Sean Michael Carroll is a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology. He is a research professor in the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics in the California Institute of Technology Department of Physics. He has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific journals such as Nature as well as other publications, including The New York Times, Sky & Telescope, and New Scientist.

He has appeared on the History Channel's The Universe, Science Channel's Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, Closer to Truth (broadcast on PBS),and Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. Carroll 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. 

Over the years he has become one of the most well-known faces of modern physics, amassing over 260,000 followers on Twitter and millions of views on Youtube — no easy feat for a physicist trying to popularize science.

Sean's post about Starity: https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll/status/1305177195623538688