Sean Carroll 2012: The Higgs Boson

PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO THIS CHANNEL & MY OTHER ONE TOO:- https://www.youtube.com/user/MrMindFeed "THE PARTICLE AT THE END OF THE UNIVERSE" is Sean Carroll's book on the Large Hadron Collider and the search for the Higgs boson, published by Dutton in November 2012 Book @ Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/The-Particle-End-Universe-Higgs/dp/0525953590/ Book @ Amazon.UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Particle-End-Universe-Higgs/dp/0525953590/ Book website here: http://preposterousuniverse.com/particle/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_M._Carroll RESEARCH: Carroll has worked on a number of topics in theoretical cosmology, field theory, and gravitation theory. His research papers include models of, and experimental constraints on, violations of Lorentz invariance; the appearance of closed timelike curves in general relativity; varieties of topological defects in field theory; and cosmological dynamics of extra spacetime dimensions. In recent years he has written extensively on models of dark energy and its interactions with ordinary matter and dark matter, as well as modifications of general relativity in cosmology. Carroll has also worked on the arrow of time problem. He and Jennifer Chen posit that the Big Bang is not a unique occurrence as a result of all of the matter and energy in the universe originating in a singularity at the beginning of time, but rather one of many cosmic inflation events resulting from quantum fluctuations of vacuum energy in a cold De Sitter space. Carroll and Chen claim that the universe is infinitely old, but never reaches thermodynamic equilibrium as entropy increases continuously without limit due to the decreasing matter and energy density attributable to recurrent cosmic inflation. They assert that the universe is "statistically time-symmetric" insofar as it contains equal progressions of time "both forward and backward" ATHEISM: Carroll is an outspoken atheist, who argues that scientific thinking leads one to a materialist worldview. He turned down an invitation to speak at a conference sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, on the grounds that he did not want to appear to be supporting a reconciliation between science and religion. In 2004, he and Shadi Bartsch taught an undergraduate course at the University of Chicago on the history of atheism.