{"id":2247,"date":"2025-03-06T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2025-03-06T10:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T15:36:56","slug":"sean-carroll-visits-u%c2%b2grc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/sean-carroll-visits-u%c2%b2grc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Carroll visits U\u00b2GRC!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/johns-hopkins-physicist-philosopher-to-ponder-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/johns-hopkins-physicist-philosopher-to-ponder-biggest-ideas-in-the-universe\/\">Sean Carroll visited us this week<\/a> delivering several talks and engaging with the URI community widely. Carroll gave a Physics Department seminar, a public talk and help many discussions with faculty, students, and other community members. He stayed at the President&#8217;s house as a special university guest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carroll spent 2 hours with the U\u00b2GRC yesterday answering a wide variety of questions primarily by our students. The questions ranged from technical details about the mathematical nature of singularities, to the big open question of &#8220;free will&#8221; and consciousness .. and everything in between!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We thank the URI Physics Department for arranging and organizing Carroll&#8217;s visit and look forward to similar future events. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sean Carroll visited us this week delivering several talks and engaging with the URI community widely. Carroll gave a Physics Department seminar, a public talk and help many discussions with faculty, students, and other community members. He stayed at the President&#8217;s house as a special university guest. Carroll spent 2 hours with the U\u00b2GRC yesterday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4052,"featured_media":2248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2249,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions\/2249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}