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.
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Blog post with transcript: [https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/12/23/holiday-message-hits-and-misses/] (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. D41, 1231. [ [pdf file] (https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/90cfj.pdf) ; [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/26310) ]
---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] (https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/91cfg.pdf) ; [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/317776) ]
---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. D50, 6190; gr-qc/9404065. [ [arXiv] (http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9404065) ; [pdf] (http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/9404065) ; [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/373183) ]
---S.M. Carroll, 1998, "Quintessence and the Rest of the World,''Phys. Rev. Lett.81, 3067; astro-ph/9806099. [ [arXiv] (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9806099) ; [pdf] (http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/9806099) ; [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/472059) ]
---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] (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306438) ; [pdf] (http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0306438) ; [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/621682) ]
---S.M. Carroll and J. Chen, 2004, "Spontaneous Inflation and the Origin of the Arrow of Time'', hep-th/0410270. [ [arXiv] (http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410270) , [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/663125) ]
---L. Ackerman, M.R. Buckley, S.M. Carroll, and M. Kamionkowski, 2008, "Dark Matter and Dark Radiation," arxiv:0807.5126. [ [arXiv] (http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.5126) ; [pdf] (http://arxiv.org/pdf/0810.5126) ; [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/800924) ]
---S.M. Carroll, M.C. Johnson, and L. Randall, 2009, "Dynamical Compactification," arxiv:0904.3115. [ [arXiv] (http://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3115) ; [pdf] (http://arxiv.org/pdf/0904.3115) ; [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/818380) ]
---C. Cao, S.M. Carroll, and S. Michalakis, 2016, "Space from Hilbert Space: Recovering Geometry from Bulk Entanglement," arxiv:1606.08444. [ [arXiv] (http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08444) , [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/1472804) ]
---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] (http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1712.02803) , [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/1642223?ln=en) ]
---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] (http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1712.04955) , [inSPIRE] (http://inspirehep.net/record/1643261?ln=en) ]
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