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Hello everyone and welcome to the April 2024 Ask me anything addition of the Mindscape podcast I'm your host Sean Carroll

The big news around here is that because it is April it will soon be May and May 14th will be the release date of my next book

Quanta and Fields the biggest ideas in the universe of volume two I don't want to say too

much about the book because I'll probably just do a solo podcast

related to it somehow at some point very very soon. I'll take requests for anything that people

specifically want to know about quantum field theory, which is most of what the book is about.

You know the basic idea of the biggest ideas series, which is that I'm going to be teaching physics to people who are non-physicists so it's not a textbook or anything like that but I do

the equations so I'm going to show you equations I'm going to try to explain what they are and

this book is action-packed. We're going to do quantum

field theory as well as quantum mechanics and we're going to skip over some of the

mathematical details because there are just too many in quantum field theory, but you will meet the

bosons and fermions of the standard model, you will meet fineman diagrams and Lagrangians

and renormalization, you will think about spontaneous symmetry breaking and confinement in the spin

statistics theorem and how it all comes together to do atoms and molecules and so forth.

The reason why I am mentioning all of this is because given that it is a bit more than a month before the release date,

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