Holiday Message | Hits and Misses

It's the end of the year, and time for our annual holiday break here at Mindscape. But as usual, we wrap up with a Holiday Message. This year, inspired by Joni Mitchell's "Hits" and "Misses" albums, I go through my scientific papers and talk about some of my favorites -- some of which were hits, in terms of making an impact on subsequent research, and some of which were misses by that standard. But I love them all! It's an excuse to talk about process -- how papers come to be, from the initial informal idea to sitting down and doing the work. S upport Mindscape on  Patreon . Blog post with transcript: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/12/23/holiday-message-hits-and-misses/ Here are links to the papers I discuss in the episode. S.M. Carroll, G.B. Field and R. Jackiw, 1990, "Limits on A Lorentz and Parity-Violating Modification of Electrodynamics,''  Phys. Rev. D   41 , 1231. [ pdf file ;  inSPIRE ] S.M. Carroll, E. Farhi and A.H. Guth, 1992, "An Obstacle to Building a Time Machine,''  Phys. Rev. Lett.   68 , 263; Erratum:  68 , 3368. [ pdf file ;  inSPIRE ] S.M. Carroll, E. Farhi, A.H. Guth and K.D. Olum, 1994, "Energy-Momentum Restrictions on the Creation of Gott Time Machines,''  Phys. Rev. D   50 , 6190; gr-qc/9404065. [ arXiv ;  pdf ;  inSPIRE ] S.M. Carroll, 1998, "Quintessence and the Rest of the World,''  Phys. Rev. Lett.   81 , 3067; astro-ph/9806099. [ arXiv ;  pdf ;  inSPIRE ] S.M. Carroll, V. Duvvuri, M. Trodden, and M.S. Turner, 2003, "Is Cosmic Speed-Up Due to New Gravitational Physics?'' astro-ph/0306438. [ arXiv ;  pdf ;  inSPIRE ] S.M. Carroll and J. Chen, 2004, "Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time'', hep-th/0410270. [ arXiv ,  inSPIRE ] L. Ackerman, M.R. Buckley, S.M. Carroll, and M. Kamionkowski, 2008, "Dark Matter and Dark Radiation," arxiv:0807.5126. [ arXiv ;  pdf ;  inSPIRE ] S.M. Carroll, M.C. Johnson, and L. Randall, 2009, "Dynamical Compactification," arxiv:0904.3115. [ arXiv ;  pdf ;  inSPIRE ] C. Cao, S.M. Carroll, and S. Michalakis, 2016, "Space from Hilbert Space: Recovering Geometry from Bulk Entanglement," arxiv:1606.08444. [ arXiv ,  inSPIRE ] C. Cao and S.M. Carroll, 2018, "Bulk Entanglement Gravity without a Boundary: Towards Finding Einstein's Equation in Hilbert Space," arxiv:1712.02803. [ arXiv ,  inSPIRE ] N. Bao, S.M. Carroll, A. Chatwin-Davies, J. Pollack, and G. Remmen, 2017, "Branches of the Black Hole Wave Function Need Not Contain Firewalls," arxiv:1712.04955. [ arXiv ,  inSPIRE ]