I've written a few books, both popular-level and textbook-level. I also wrote a personal narrative as part of applying for a Guggenheim fellowship. You can see the transcript or the audio version. See my research page or annotated publications for more details.įor some biographical background, I did an oral history interview for the American Institute of Physics.
These days my focus has shifted to more foundational questions, both in quantum mechanics (origin of probability, emergence of space and time) and statistical mechanics (entropy and the arrow of time, emergence and causation, dynamics of complexity), bringing a more philosophical dimension to my work. Most of my career has been spent doing research on cosmology, field theory, and gravitation, looking at topics such as dark matter and dark energy, modified gravity, topological defects, extra dimensions, and violations of fundamental symmetries. I'm the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy - in effect, a joint appointment between physics and philosophy - at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.
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