Dr. Sean Carroll gets paid to sit around (sometimes in his office, sometimes at Starbucks) and think. GREAT JOB! How do I get this job? Oh, years and years and years of study…he’s a theoretical physicist at Caltech…his new book, the product of all that caffeine-fueled thinking, is “From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time.” Fascinating reading and understandable for the non-scientist. Listen to an interview with Dr. Carroll after the jump.

Could a time machine work? How about that Star Trek Transporter Room? What’s a black hole? And how will quantum mechanics help me in  my life? These questions and more answered by Dr. Sean Carroll:

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