Sean Carroll
#Physics, #philosophy, #complexity. Johns Hopkins & @sfiscience.bsky.social. Host, #MindscapePodcast. Married to @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social.
Latest: Quanta & Fields, book 2 of The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
preposterousuniverse.com
He/him.
- These kinds of things are worth remembering.
- Any graduate student will testify that science doesn’t stop just because the government has illegally kidnapped you.
- There’s no rule that says the universe has to make things easy on us. Often it doesn’t! Dark matter *could* be essentially undetectable— but most promising models do suggest viable detection strategies. ⚛️
- This actually would be one of the most diabolical forms of dark matter. As I say in seminars and talks, if dark matter were made up of something the size and mass of a snowball, we'd be pretty screwed. xkcd.com/3085/
- Chicago Pope announced while I am on a layover at O’Hare. Might have to convert to Catholicism.
