April 19, 2024

Secret Science Club presents Physicist & Author Sean Carroll, Wednesday, May 15, 7:30PM @ the Bell House, $29

SPECIAL EVENT! Secret Science Club presents Theoretical Physicist & Best-selling Author Sean Carroll with THE BIGGEST IDEAS IN THE UNIVERSE: Quanta & Fields

IN-PERSON @ THE BELL HOUSE on Wednesday, May 15, 7:30PM (Doors open at 7PM), $29 (includes book) (Reserve your tickets.)

Physicist, bestselling author & host of the acclaimed Mindscape podcast, Sean Carroll takes us on a dazzling tour of the biggest, most mysterious ideas in the Universe!

In Quanta and Fields, the second book in an already internationally acclaimed series, Carroll dives into the baffling & beautiful world of quantum mechanics.

From Schrödinger to Feynman, Carroll explores the quantum revolution with the greatest minds of the 20th century, explaining how several decades of research overturned centuries of convention.

At this special edition of the Secret Science Club, we discover why matter is solid, why there is antimatter, where the sizes of atoms come from, and why the predictions of quantum field theory are so spectacularly successful.

Beyond Newton, beyond Einstein... join us as Sean Carroll opens a window into the raw & infinitely fascinating reality of the quantum realm!

Before & After
--Sample our quantum cocktail of the night, the Uncertainty Principle!

--Groove to subatomic tunes

--Bring your questions for the cosmic Q&A

--Hot off the presses! A copy of Sean Carroll’s awesome new book, THE BIGGEST IDEAS IN THE UNIVERSE: Quanta and Fields is included with each ticket. Thank you to our bookseller, Greenlight Bookstore!

GET TICKETS HERE!

SEAN CARROLL
is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is host of the MINDSCAPE podcast, and author of The Particle at the End of the Universe, The Big Picture, Something Deeply Hidden, and The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time and Motion. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of London, and many others.

This special edition of the Secret Science Club meets in-person Wednesday, May 15, 7:30PM @ 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 the performance space open at 7PM.

Tickets are $29, including Sean Carroll’s new book. Click here to reserve your spot!

Under 18 with a parent and legal guardian

**This event will be mixed seated/standing. Arrive early for best seat selection.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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