I have further aspirations to insinuate my research into other areas. Part of Carroll’s appeal is that he applies his scientific acumen to subjects closer to the human condition. As entropy grows, complexity first appears and then eventually fades away, and I’m interested in understanding the processes by which that happens. The arrow of time (the difference between the past and future) in our observable universe can be traced to low-entropy conditions near the Big Bang, and I’ve proposed models to help explain that puzzling cosmological feature. He tweets and has a widely followed blog, where he has described his work as focusing “on two big themes”: first on “the foundations of quantum mechanics, especially connections to cosmology and emergent spacetime,” and second on the evolution of entropy and complexity. A theoretical physicist and research professor at Caltech, he is also a consummate communicator of science. UNLIKE MANY of his physicist peers, Sean Carroll welcomes the interest, curiosity, and what must sometimes seem the naïve questions of laypeople.
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