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Astroblog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
On Monday 23 November at 6:00 pm renown physicist and blogger Sean Carroll will be at Adelaide University to give a talk! Woot! "The Arrow of Time" presented by Professor Sean Carroll , California Institute of Technology, Monday 23rd November 2009. 6:00pm, Union Hall, University of Adelaide, North Terrace (map here ) Sadly, Monday night is the night I go to chess...
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
From Edge: [SEAN CARROLL:] Why does the universe looks the way it does? This seems on the one hand a very obvious question. On the other hand, it is an interestingly strange question, because we have no basis for comparison....
The Panda's Thumb (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
As part of a year-long Darwin Lecture Series, evo-devo guy Sean Carroll will be giving a webcast talk based around his Making of the Fittest. The talk is on Wednesday, November 4, and you can sign up for the live webcast here....
myairapplications.com (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
We’d like to comment on a story on Good returns in which Asteron’s Sean Carroll reportedly had this to say; “The commission war over the past few months had done nothing for the industry, and as an actuary, he said he knew “exactly” how it is costing his competitors. Change needs to be customer-driven, and Carroll [...]
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
It's not Boltzmann's Brain: It's Boltzmann's Bang: Sean Carroll >Edge: WHY DOES THE UNVIERSE LOOK THE WAY IT DOES: A Conversation With Sean Carroll: I read papers by Huw Price, who is a philosopher in Australia... who... said that cosmologists are completely fooling themselves about the entropy of the universe. They are letting their models assume that the early universe...
Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Our universe is only 14 billion years old, in human time. Is our universe just part of a larger system? One dimension of a Multiverse? Something Wonderful at Vanderleun. Listen to the video with Caltech's Sean Carroll, which only requires intro Physics. Science fiction come to life. It does put life in perspective. One quote from Carroll re entropy: "Every time you put milk...
CapitalistImperialistPig (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... theory can have, and that's to serve as a fruitful source of ideas for other areas of physics. Sean Carroll says: One of the reasons why string theory is so popular among people who have thought about it very carefully is that it really does lead to new things. It really is fruitful. It's not that you have make some guess like, oh, maybe space time is discrete or maybe the universe...
AMERICAN DIGEST (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
... started in the first place." Twenty-four fascinating and valuable minutes with the brilliant Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist and a senior research associate at Caltech. "However, the real world is quite orderly. The entropy is much, much lower than it could be. The reason for this is that the early universe, near the Big Bang , 14 billion years ago, had incredibly...
Astroblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... of Adelaide, North Terrace (map here ) "The Arrow of Time" presented by Professor Sean Carroll , California Institute of Technology, Monday 23rd November 2009. 6:00pm, Union Hall, University of Adelaide, North Terrace "Modern Subatomic Physics: From the Big Bang to the Dark Side of the Universe" presented by Professor Tony Thomas , Australian Laureate Fellow and...
Gene Expression (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
He addresses the Behe diavlog . Sort of. McWhorter states that he did not find the rebuttals to the arguments in Michael Behe's Edge of Evolution persuasive. Fair enough, but I would be curious as to what other books on evolution he has read (I think he mentioned Sean Carroll'). The math in something like John Maynard Smith's Evolutionary Genetics is really not that hard (mostly algebra)....
The Intersection (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
... So I hope you enjoy it. P.S. : I’m aware that colleagues whom I respect, like Carl Zimmer and Sean Carroll , have a serious issue with Bloggingheads over two diavlogs in the past that featured creationists, and have decided they no longer want to participate. After that happened, I weighed their concerns, as well as the defenses offered by Robert Wright and others. I was torn, as...
Bad Astronomy (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... is finally a testable hypothesis about dark matter. My fellow Hive Overmind blogger and astronomer Sean Carroll writes that it’s possible Fermi has done just this . The data are not conclusive, but very provocative nonetheless. He has the details. But I can’t resist adding that on The Big Bang Theory a few weeks ago, Raj and Sheldon were investigating building a detector to look for...
CapitalistImperialistPig (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... the assumption that the universe had low entropy at early times. Greene, like Penrose and (maybe) Sean Carroll, wants to find some cosmological reason why the universe has to start in a state of low entropy. Lubos doesn't like this, but he seems to have deleted an earlier version in which he compared this (favorably) to wondering why an elephant doesn't have 486 legs and (unfavorably)...
** Science On Tap... ** (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Clever little brain teaser at Sean Carroll's "Cosmic Variance" blog recently HERE. Good example of how language, and in this case just a few simple words, can lead one's logic astray. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2009/11/04/are-you-a-cognitive-miser/var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");...
Not Even Wrong (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... skepticism is in the majority is here ). Among bloggers, at one end of the spectrum is Sean Carroll, who gives a probability of 60%, at the other is Resonaances, with 0.1%. Personally, I’m with Resonaances, at least as far as conventional supersymmetric models go. The main arguments against supersymmetry, ignored in New Scientist, are that supersymmetry breaking is both necessary...
