#126 - Sean Carroll - The Problem With Quantum Mechanics
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Oh yes, hello humans, welcome back to Modern Wisdom. |
| 0:03.8 | My guest today is Professor Sean Carroll, New York Times best selling author of the big picture. |
| 0:10.4 | And today we are talking all things physics, quantum mechanics, gravity, space time, |
| 0:17.8 | all the easy to understand topics that you want to talk about at a dinner party. |
| 0:23.4 | However, Sean is incredibly lucid, superarticular. |
| 0:28.2 | And if I can understand it, you definitely can too. |
| 0:31.6 | In other news, I've got some episodes coming up with Coon Smetz, behavioral economist talking about time |
| 0:38.6 | and how we make our decisions relating to time and money. |
| 0:42.2 | I've got Naval Ravakant's brother Kamal talking about his new book Love Yourself, like your life depends on it. |
| 0:49.6 | That is going to be absolutely amazing and I cannot wait to sit down with him. |
| 0:54.2 | Ryan Fisher from CrossFit Chalk, who else? |
| 0:57.9 | Michaela Peterson is going to come on in the new year. |
| 1:00.7 | Oli Marchon from Marchon Athletic will be joining me. |
| 1:04.0 | So it is a stacked few months coming up. |
| 1:07.3 | But for now, we're going to learn about what quantum physics is and how it all works. |
| 1:12.4 | And how essentially the world that you see around you is totally not what's going on. |
| 1:17.9 | So yeah, prepare for your mind to be blown. |
| 1:20.2 | Please welcome Sean Carroll. |
| 1:24.2 | Music |
| 1:38.2 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. |
| 1:40.8 | I'm joined by Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist, especially in quantum mechanics, gravity and cosmology, research professor at the Department of Physics, the California Institute of Technology. |
| 1:52.6 | And also the man behind the Mindscape Podcast. |
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