{"id":8835,"date":"2012-09-18T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/?p=8835"},"modified":"2012-09-18T14:14:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T21:14:05","slug":"time-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/18\/time-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"http:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/particle\/\"><em>The Particle at the End of the Universe<\/em><\/a> scheduled to come out in November, most of the popular-level talks I&#8217;ll be giving in the near future will have to do with the LHC and the Higgs boson &#8212; and quantum field theory, as part of my secret agenda to get QFT accepted as part of the mainstream pop-sci vocabulary. So I&#8217;ll be giving fewer talks about the arrow of time, at least near-term. I thought I&#8217;d commemorate the occasion by sharing the slides I used for a recent version of this talk: &#8220;The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time.&#8221; Not that I&#8217;m by any stretch done talking about it, but hopefully the next time the occasion arises I&#8217;ll have the energy to make up new slides from scratch.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom:5px\"> <strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/seanmcarroll\/the-origin-of-the-universe-and-the-arrow-of-time\" title=\"The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time\" target=\"_blank\">The Origin of the Universe and the Arrow of Time<\/a> <\/strong> from <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/seanmcarroll\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Carroll<\/a><\/strong> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With The Particle at the End of the Universe scheduled to come out in November, most of the popular-level talks I&#8217;ll be giving in the near future will have to do with the LHC and the Higgs boson &#8212; and quantum field theory, as part of my secret agenda to get QFT accepted as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-time"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}