From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll
From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll
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From Eternity to Here
The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

Author: Sean Carroll

Narrator: Erik Synnestvedt

Unabridged: 16 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/15/2010

Categories: Nonfiction, Science, Physics


Synopsis

Time moves forward, not backward—everyone knows you can't unscramble an egg. In the hands of one of today's hottest young physicists, that simple fact of breakfast becomes a doorway to understanding the Big Bang, the universe, and other universes, too. In From Eternity to Here, Sean Carroll argues that the arrow of time, pointing resolutely from the past to the future, owes its existence to conditions before the Big Bang itself—a period of modern cosmology of which Einstein never dreamed. Increasingly, though, physicists are going out into realms that make the theory of relativity seem like child's play. Carroll's scenario is not only elegant, it's laid out in the same easy-to-understand language that has made his group blog, Cosmic Variance, the most popular physics blog on the Net.

From Eternity to Here uses ideas at the cutting edge of theoretical physics to explore how properties of space-time before the Big Bang can explain the flow of time we experience in our everyday lives. Carroll suggests that we live in a baby universe, part of a large family of universes in which many of our siblings experience an arrow of time running in the opposite direction. It's an ambitious, fascinating picture of the universe on an ultra-large scale, one that will captivate fans of popular physics blockbusters like Elegant Universe and A Brief History of Time.

About Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll, Ph.D., is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. After receiving his doctorate from Harvard University, he pursued his research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago. He has published papers on dark matter and dark energy, the physics of extra dimensions, and alternative theories of gravity as well as the graduate-level textbook Spacetime and Geometry. Sean is one of the founders of the group blog cosmicvariance.com, named one of the five top science blogs by Nature.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on December 04, 2014

FREE From Eternity to Here COMPATIBILITY TEST Read through the following dialogue between two people, A and B. Underline all the sentences which you can imagine saying yourself. ____________________________________________ A: What are you thinking? B: Have you ever wondered why the future is different f......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on April 13, 2017

This is some very impressive stuff. I've read a lot of nonfiction science books that sometimes had equations but mostly did not, but what I really wanted was a cohesive drive, an arrow to spear right through some of the biggest questions of our time... such as What Is Time. Sean Carroll manages to ke......more

Goodreads review by Prerna on October 16, 2021

When it comes to foundational physics, we are apparently in a phase of stagnation. We have ginormous amounts of data, but we also have incomplete theories. Most physicists today don't work on foundational theories, we've apparently had a roughly exponential rise in the number of publications and aut......more

Goodreads review by David on November 18, 2011

This is a very well-written, and entertaining book on our understanding of the arrow of time. Entropy is a key concept, which deserves (and gets) lots of attention. The second law of thermodynamics states that, in a closed system, entropy can either stay the same or increase--it cannot decrease. Sea......more