#428 – Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
⏱️ 165 minutes
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) - Introduction
(11:03) - General relativity
(23:22) - Black holes
(28:11) - Hawking radiation
(32:19) - Aliens
(41:15) - Holographic principle
(1:05:38) - Dark energy
(1:11:38) - Dark matter
(1:20:34) - Quantum mechanics
(1:41:56) - Simulation
(1:44:18) - AGI
(1:58:42) - Complexity
(2:11:25) - Consciousness
(2:20:32) - Naturalism
(2:24:49) - Limits of science
(2:29:34) - Mindscape podcast
(2:39:29) - Einstein
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Sean Carroll, his third time in this podcast. |
| 0:05.2 | He is a theoretical physicist at John Hopkins, |
| 0:08.8 | host of the Mindscape Podcast that I personally love and highly recommend and author of many books including the most recent book series called The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. |
| 0:20.0 | The first book of which is titled Space, Time, and Motion, and it's on the topic of general |
| 0:24.8 | relativity. And the second coming out on May 14th, so you should definitely |
| 0:30.3 | pre-order it, is titled Quanta and Fields, and that one is on the topic of |
| 0:35.2 | quantum mechanics. Sean is a legit active theoretical physicist and at the same time is one of the |
| 0:42.2 | greatest communicators of physics ever. |
| 0:45.0 | I highly encourage you listen to his podcast, read his books, and pre-order the new book to support his work. |
| 0:52.0 | This was, as always always a big honor and a pleasure for me. |
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| 1:30.0 | As always, no ads in the middle. |
| 1:32.0 | I try to make these interesting, but if you skip them, please still check out our sponsors. I enjoy their stuff. Maybe you will too. |
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| 1:47.0 | Boys, this is a fascinating space. |
| 1:50.0 | The very fabric of truth is being torn apart by increasingly powerful systems that we consult |
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