Hello everyone, welcome to the November 2021 ask me anything edition of the Mindscape podcast. I'm your host Tron Carroll

Still reporting to you from my sabbatical in Boston mass where I'm visiting Harvard. It's been fun

Seeing people are known for a long time catching up getting a little bit of science done

collaboratively and also meeting some people who I hadn't already known but I will be honest

Most of my time has been spent trying very hard to finish up this book manuscript that I'm working on

So it's been a lot of alone time in that sense as some of you know I did this video series last summer on the biggest ideas in the universe

And I am turning those videos into a series of books three books

So I just finished up the Mindscape for book number one or almost finished

I shouldn't curse myself there. I shouldn't jinx myself

The first book is on classical physics second ones on quantum physics and third one is on miscellaneous topics

largely about complexity and emergence and things like that

classical physics of course includes general relativity and space time like holes things like that

the whole point of

This book series is to do more or less straight pedagogy, which is usually not what I do most of my books

You know, I try to stake out some terrain that people can agree with or disagree with rather than just

Telling people things that we already know

But the gimmick here is that we're doing it with the equations

So it's intro physics, but with all the equations there including you know Einstein's equation for general relativity

So I have to explain what tensors are

What the Riemann curvature tensor is in particular what the metric is all that stuff

I have to teach you calculus at least enough to understand the equations

Vectors tensors. What have you and that's challenging. It's hard like I'm looking at what I'm writing. I'm like oh my goodness

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