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Sean M. Carroll (b. 1966) is a senior research associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is a theoretical cosmologist specializing in dark energy and general relativity. He is also a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has written for science magazines such as Nature, Seed, Sky & Telescope, and New Scientist. He is the author of Spacetime And Geometry, a popular graduate-level textbook in general relativity, and has also recorded a set of lectures aimed at non-specialists for The Teaching Company, entitled Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe.
He is an outspoken atheist, who argues that scientific thinking leads one to a materialist worldview. He turned down an invitation to speak at a conference sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, on the grounds that he did not want to appear to be supporting a reconciliation between science and religion. In 2004 he and Shadi Bartsch taught an undergraduate course at the University of Chicago on the history of atheism.
Carroll received his Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics in 1993 from Harvard University, where his advisor was George B. Field. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago until 2006.
Research
- Models of, and experimental constraints on, violations of Lorentz invariance.
- The appearance of closed timelike curves in general relativity.
- Varieties of topological defects in field theory.
- Cosmological dynamics of extra spacetime dimensions.
- Models of dark energy and its interactions with ordinary matter and dark matter.
- Modifications of general relativity in cosmology.
- Spontaneous inflation as a solution to the arrow of time problem.
Publications
- Carroll, Sean, "Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity". 2003. ISBN 0-8053-8732-3
- List of Publications
External links
References
- Why Almost All Cosmologists Are Atheists
- The God Conundrum - Cosmic Variance blog
- Purity of Essence -Preposterous Universe blog
- Moments in Atheism course web page