Comments on: A Book Full of Particles

By: Ray Gunn

Ray Gunn — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:42:48 +0000

Found an early Hanukkah/Chanukah gift in the mailbox. Guess this atheist can be a hypocrite for once and accept it. Wonder how the Chanukah Zombie knew I wanted your book?

By: Paulino

Paulino — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 02:13:43 +0000

Dear Dr. Sean,

I’m sorry to say that I’ve learned today, from a reader review at Amazon, that you, sir, are a moron, obsessed with money sapping, and “willing to indebt any generation of Americans into becoming slaves”. Alas, in the same review, I’ve learned, much to my chagrin, that a I’m a debt-slave-atheism-theoretical-physics-cultist, who worship delusional morons like you*. Therefore, for that and no other reason, I’m giving myself your book for Christmas, even though I’m at war against it… Christmas, I mean.

Congrats and success!

ps-* isn’t the internet wonderful? the things you learn from it and wish you haven’t…

pps- @9 and @ 10, you are both wrong, Sean Carroll is going to be played by James McAvoy.

By: ampire

ampire — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:50:40 +0000

Congrats! Ordered in my local south german bookshop – thanks!

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 05:32:40 +0000

Can’t wait for the sequel “The Particle Beyond the End of the Universe”

By: James Gallagher

James Gallagher — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:18:36 +0000

Unfortunately Sean’s Reddit appearance coincided with Eric Idle’s, and while Sean’s thread was interesting it couldn’t really compete with this type of exchange from Idle’s thread

(pleb1): How did you enjoy being shot out of a cannon? [referring to Olympics closing ceremony]
Eric Idle: It was a stunt man.
(pleb2): You were shot out of a stunt man?!

(pleb3): What’s something you enjoy doing that isn’t particularly well known? A hobby or such?
Eric Idle: Guitar. Reading
(pleb4): I’ve never read a guitar. It seems like it would be fretful.

By: Jen Navolio

Jen Navolio — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:41:40 +0000

I think Sean should be played by Robert Pattinson not Taylor Lautner.
P.S Ordering the book now

xoxo
Jen

By: Ori Vandewalle

Ori Vandewalle — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:11:18 +0000

The Particle at the End of the Universe: The Movie:

Sean Carroll (Taylor Lautner) is a brilliant young man working as a janitor at the Large Hadron Collider. One night while emptying the trash, he glances at a series of equations on a blackboard and comes to a horrible conclusion: if the LHC is turned on, the universe will end! But the Director General of the LHC, evil German scientist Rolf-Dieter Heuer (Alan Rickman), is bent on claiming the Nobel Prize for the Higgs Boson and will stop at nothing to silence Sean.

Before Sean can escape and tell the world, however, a freak earthquake (caused by the LHC warming up) traps him and several others underground. Heuer’s henchmen, wielding experimental and highly dangerous hadron guns, hunt Sean through the winding tunnels and catwalks of the LHC. Sean is forced to use his wits and deep knowledge of high-energy particle physics to shut down the experiment gone wrong, save the beautiful grad student (Scarlett Johansson) also trapped with him, and find a way out of the LHC.

This summer, science collides with destruction!

Call me?

By: David W Miller

David W Miller — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:22:37 +0000

Bought it for my dad! If I am ever at Caltech, I’ll bring it with for a signature

By: Naked Bunny with a Whip

Naked Bunny with a Whip — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:47:07 +0000

So the book is not written entirely in limericks?

Ah well. I’ll buy it anyway.

By: David Lau

David Lau — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:41:43 +0000

I am at work and waiting for the book to be delivered to my room from the office. It will be a book to read thru Thanksgiving break.