In January Sean Carroll gave a guest lecture to The Royal Institution in London entitled: "A Brief History of Quantum Mechanics". Using simple, understandable examples, Prof. Carroll leads his audience through the labyrinth that started with Bohr and Einstein and continues to confuse many today. Even the iconic Richard Feynman, who won a Nobel Prize for his work in Quantum Theory, said: "Nobody understands Quantum Mechanics."
Sean Michael Carroll (born October 5, 1966) is a theoretical physicist specializing in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology. He is a research professor in the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics in the California Institute of Technology Department of Physics.[1] He has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific journals such as Nature as well as other publications, including The New York Times, Sky & Telescope, and New Scientist.
He has appeared on the History Channel's The Universe, Science Channel's Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, Closer to Truth (broadcast on PBS),[2] and Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. Carroll is the author of Spacetime And Geometry, a graduate-level textbook in general relativity, and has also recorded lectures for The Great Courses on cosmology, the physics of time, and the Higgs boson.[3] He is also the author of four popular books: From Eternity to Here about the arrow of time, The Particle at the End of the Universe about the Higgs boson, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself, and Something Deeply Hidden about the foundations of quantum mechanics. He began a podcast in 2018 called Mindscape, in which he interviews other experts and intellectuals on a variety of science-related topics.[4]
Prof. Carroll is the author of a recent book: Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime (2019). This book discusses the "mysteries" of quantum mechanics and is the source for the presentation material in this lecture.
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