AMA | June 2023

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

Sean Carroll | Wondery

Society & Culture, Physics, Philosophy, Science, Ideas, Society

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 178 minutes

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Welcome to the June 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good -- and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, welcome to the June 2023 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape Podcast.
0:05.3	I'm your host Sean Carroll. The only thing really on my mind these days, you know,
0:09.6	the semester is over here at Johns Hopkins. I'm not traveling for the next several weeks at least,
0:15.7	so I'm finishing the book, Volume 2, the biggest ideas in the universe, which is going to be called
0:21.5	Quanta and Fields. This one has been a lot of work. I mean, of course, it's taken longer than
0:27.6	it should have because I got a new job and flew across the country and helped to fix up a house
0:32.8	before moving into it and taught two courses and a whole bunch of other things. There's a lot
0:37.3	going on. So we originally had hope that Volume 2 would be coming out a year after Volume 1,
0:43.3	which would put it this fall. I'm not done and it takes almost a year to get a book out
0:49.0	once you've handed it in. So no, it's not going to be coming out this fall. It'll come out sometime
0:54.0	first half of next year. I presume 2024. I'm hoping that since I'm not going to move across
1:00.0	the country again and my job is already settled here that the book after that, book 3 in the series,
1:08.0	which will be complexity and emergence, that will come out about a year after Volume 2.
1:14.1	So Volume 2 that I'm finishing up right now, you know, I go back and forth because it's super
1:21.4	ambitious. Volume 1 was pretty ambitious. You know, Volume 1 taught you relativity, both special
1:27.2	and general. I mean, it starts very slowly going with Newtonian mechanics, what is space, what is
1:31.7	time, there are a lot of words, but eventually the equations start coming and I teach you how to
1:36.9	do calculus and things like that. And then non-remonian geometry, I should say, non-uclidean geometry,
1:44.2	culminating in general relativity. And that's a lot for a trade book type of audience. This book,
1:50.3	I'm doing quantum mechanics, of course, but actually in book 2, the quantum mechanics is going to
1:54.8	go by pretty quickly. I'm not dwelling on the intricacies of quantum mechanics, certainly not the
2:00.7	interpretations there of or foundational questions like we did in something deeply hidden, because most
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