The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 2 by Sean Carroll is a 2025 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Sean Carroll, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "Distant time and the hint of a multiverse" (2011), 1.9M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 14 years after the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 2nd of 2 books by Sean Carroll on Books Worth Reading (2022–2025), by publication year.
- Edition: Oneworld Publications, 2025 · 289 pages
The paired TED talk
Distant time and the hint of a multiverse (2011), the TED talk by Sean Carroll.
From the publisher
Immense, strange and infinite, the world of modern physics often feels impenetrable to the undiscerning eye – a jumble of muons, gluons and quarks, impossible to explain without several degrees and a research position at CERN.
But it doesn’t have to be this way!
Allow world-renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Sean Carroll to guide you through the biggest ideas in the universe. Elegant and simple, Carroll unravels a web of theory to get to the heart of the truths they represent about the world around us.
In Quanta and Fields, the second in this landmark trilogy, Carroll delves into the baffling and beautiful world of quantum mechanics. From Schrödinger to Feynman, Carroll travels through the quantum revolution with the greatest minds of the twentieth century. Exploring how several decades of research overturned centuries of convention, Carroll provides a dazzling tour of the most exciting ideas in modern science.