Sean Carroll’s Biggest Ideas (#259)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Sean Carroll joins me to discuss his magnificent new book, The Biggest Ideas In the Universe. Sean is an American theoretical physicist and philosopher who specializes in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology. He is the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific journals such as Nature as well as other publications, including The New York Times, Sky & Telescope and New Scientist. He is known for atheism, critique of theism and defense of naturalism. He has appeared on the History Channel's The Universe, Science Channel's Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, Closer to Truth (broadcast on PBS), and Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. Carroll is the author of Spacetime And Geometry, a graduate-level textbook in general relativity, and has also recorded lectures for The Great Courses on cosmology, the physics of time and the Higgs boson. He is also the author of four other popular books: From Eternity to Here about the arrow of time, The Particle at the End of the Universe about the Higgs boson, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself about ontology, and Something Deeply Hidden about the foundations of quantum mechanics. He began a podcast in 2018 called Mindscape, in which he interviews other experts and intellectuals coming from a variety of disciplines, including "[s]cience, society, philosophy, culture, arts and ideas" in general.He has also published a Youtube video series entitled "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe" which provides physics instruction at a popular-science level but with equations and a mathematical basis, rather than mere analogy. The series has become the basis of a new book series with the installment, "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion". https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/ https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll Mindscape Podcast on Apple: https://bold.org/scholarships/mindscape/ Connect with me: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Join Shortform through my link Shortform.com/impossible and you’ll receive 5 days of unlimited access and an additional 20% discounted annual subscription! Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! Can you do me a favor? Please leave a rating and review of my Podcast: 🎧 On Apple devices, click here, scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. 🎙️On Spotify it’s here 🎧 On Audible it’s here Other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon or become a Member on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome friends to a fascinating episode of the Into the
0:04.0	Impossible podcast. Today's episode features not other than my friend Sean
0:08.2	Carol, the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University.
0:13.4	Sean recently departed Southern California in Maryland's gain as our loss, but the reason I had
0:21.8	him on is not only because he's a fascinating thinker, physicist, philosopher, and commentator, but also because he has a new book out.
0:30.0	And whenever Sean comes out with a new book, I can't resist, but to host him after all he endorsed my first book losing the Nobel Prize with his Ancomium and it's quite a delight to have him back for the third or fourth time on the podcast last Hanaman right before the pandemic in 2019, and December 2019, if you can remember it,
0:46.5	where you're in person and the audio quality was even worse than it normally is remotely from Timbuktu.
0:54.0	But this audio hopefully is much better
0:55.7	and you're gonna enjoy it.
0:56.4	He has a very fine setup.
0:58.2	He's upped his game as I've tried to up my game
1:01.0	and you'll find out some more tips on podcasting that he's learned about but really we're here to discuss his newest book and the project that he's embarked on to educate young people
1:13.4	and approximately beginning college all the way up through people that just want to know more about physics and this book is a great guide to all those things.
1:22.2	So if you're a new listener to my podcast into the
1:25.2	Impossible podcast make sure you check out Sean's as well called the
1:28.2	Mindscape Podcast. This particular episode covered a huge amount of ground.
1:32.0	Now we even went from you know discussing alien episode covered a huge amount of ground.
1:32.6	Now we even went from, you know, discussing alien life
1:35.2	in the universe to his experience with psychedelic drugs
1:39.4	and their effect on consciousness.
1:41.1	We talked about the beauty and value of math, the most mysterious
1:44.0	equations in the universe, the why they're so fascinating. We talked about past
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