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The biggest ideas in the Universe 2: Quanta and fields

From Schrödinger to Feynman, Sean Carroll travels through the quantum revolution.

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Immense, strange and infinite, the world of modern physics often feels impenetrable to the undiscerning eye. A jumble of muons, gluons and quarks are impossible to explain without several degrees and a research position at CERN.

But it doesn’t have to be this way!

In this livestream, world-renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Sean Carroll will guide you through the biggest ideas in the universe. In an elegant and simple way, Carroll unravels a web of theories to get to the heart of the truths they represent about the world around us.

Sean delves into the baffling and beautiful world of quantum mechanics. From Schrödinger to Feynman, he travels through the quantum revolution with the twentieth century's greatest minds. Exploring how several decades of research overturned centuries of convention, he provides a dazzling tour of the most exciting ideas in modern science.


 

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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.  

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