Sean Michael Carroll (born October 5, 1966) is an American theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum mechanics, cosmology, and the philosophy of science.

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My official title is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins, and I am also Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. I'm interested in how the world works at the deepest levels, which …

Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University. His …

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Theoretical physicist and philosopher, writer and talker. Trying to understand how things work deep down.

3 days ago · Physicist Sean Carroll explores some of the deepest mysteries in quantum mechanics: the famous double-slit experiment, wave function collapse, the Many Worlds interpretation, entropy and …

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Sean Carroll is a Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins who explores how the world works at the deepest level. His research focuses on foundational questions in quantum …

Ashmeet Singh, Sean M. Carroll Comments: 23 pages, 5 figures, comments welcome. v2 contains some change in terminology, added references Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); General Relativity …