Garrett Goon - Researcher

I am a postdoctoral researcher in Carnegie Mellon University’s High Energy Theory group. I have formerly held affiliations with Cambridge (twice), Utrecht, Amsterdam, and UPenn.

Find my publications on INSPIRE or Google Scholar. My CV is here. I also have a GitHub page and LinkedIn.

Following a brief summary of my research below, one can find various posts I've made for fun, along with press links and slides from selected talks.

Research Interests

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What signatures of primordial physics are cosmologically observable? How different was the particle content at early times?

What is the nature of dark energy? Can cosmic acceleration by explained by any consistent long-distance modification of gravity?

What can black holes tell us about high-energy physics? What are generic features of black holes beyond General Relativity?

How can we leverage elegant geometrical concepts to simplify the description of physical theories?

What they are and how to generate them simply.

Computing in units where \(\hbar=c=k_B=1\) (and sometimes \(G_N=1\), too)

Discussed 1909.05254 and related exciting research on black holes.

Popular article about black holes beyond General Relativity featuring my 1909.05254

March 2020

April 2019

June 2017

October 2017