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The biggest ideas in the Universe

Join Sean M Carroll as he explores deep questions about the cosmos.

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Discover the ideas that revolutionised our view of nature and helped us gain a deeper insight into the workings of the Universe.

Join Sean M Carroll as he explores deep questions about the cosmos, laying out the framework of classical physics from Euclid and Galileo to Newton and Einstein.

In this talk, Sean discusses the laws of physics as you’ve never understood them before.

Event type

This is a livestream event where the speaker and audience come together online. 

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About Sean M Carroll

Sean is standing in front of a bookcase full of books.
Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of natural philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He won the Royal Society Winton Prize for his book about the search for the elusive Higgs boson, The Particle at the End of the Universe, and The Big Picture was an international bestseller. His most recent book is Something Deeply Hidden. He lives in Baltimore.

Copies of Sean's latest book, 'The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and Fields' is available from Amazon and all good bookstores.  

Timing for the livestream

The livestream will go live at 6.55pm and the introduction will begin at 7.00pm. If you register but miss the livestream, the video will be available to you via the same link for two weeks after the event date.

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