Fasten your
seatbelts, cosmonauts! Physicist and best-selling author Sean Carroll travels
to the edge of time, space, and the limits of human understanding. On a grand
tour of the Universe—observed from quantum, cosmic, and human perspectives—Sean
Carroll probes the areas where physics, chemistry, astronomy, philosophy, and
biology intersect. At the next Secret Science Club, he asks: What do we know about the Universe? What
is the arrow of time? What does physics have to say about consciousness and the
origin of life? What can the physical Universe tell us about the all-too-human
quest for meaning in the world?
Sean
Carroll is a theoretical physicist and research professor at Caltech, specializing
in cosmology, gravitation, field theory, quantum mechanics, and the evolution
of entropy and complexity. The recipient of prizes and fellowships from the
National Science Foundation, NASA, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Packard
Foundation, American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, and Royal
Society of London, Dr. Carroll has been a featured scientist on Colbert, PBS’s NOVA,
and Through the Wormhole, and writes
about physics on his blog, Preposterous Universe.
He is the author of three critically acclaimed popular science books: The Particle at the End of the Universe,
From Eternity to Here, and most recently, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself.
Before & After
--Sample our quantum cocktail of the night
--Groove to
the cosmic ballet & interstellar
tunes
--Stick
around for mind-bending Q&A
--Hot off the presses! Snag a
signed copy of Sean Carroll’s new book, The Big Picture: On the Origins of
Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
This intergalactic
edition of the Secret Science
Club meets Tuesday, May 10, 8PM @ the Bell House, 149 7th St. (between
2nd and 3rd avenues) in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
Subway: F or G to 4th Ave,
R to 9th St.
Doors
to open at 7:30PM. Please bring ID: 21+. No cover. (We're expecting a big crowd, so get there early!)
Books will
be sold by WORD Bookstore. Thanks, WORD!
