Sean Carroll: Why the Crisis in Fundamental Physics Is Deepening
Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal
Curt Jaimungal
4.6 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2024
⏱️ 113 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | No, I mean, I agree. What can I say? In fundamental physics, we've not had any breakthroughs that have been verified experimentally for a very long time. That's just true. Can't argue with that. |
| 0:13.4 | What if the past 40 years of fundamental physics research have been leading us down a dead end? |
| 0:23.4 | What if there's something historically and structurally rotten that's holding us back from understanding the true nature of reality? |
| 0:29.9 | In this conversation with Professor Sean Carroll, a renowned physicist, philosopher, and author |
| 0:35.4 | who's been at the forefront of some of the most exciting |
| 0:38.4 | and controversial developments in modern physics. He reveals the truth behind how he sees |
| 0:44.5 | the supposed crisis in fundamental physics. In 2023, Sean stirred up the physics community |
| 0:50.6 | with his episode on the crisis in physics, arguing that there is no crisis. |
| 0:56.2 | Some professors cheered him on, while other professors stated that he straw-maned their views, |
| 1:01.7 | defending physics as a whole, rather than their criticisms about fundamental physics specifically. |
| 1:07.1 | Today, Sean Carroll clears the air, all while explaining other heated topics, such as where the laws themselves come from and what it means that our universe is a hologram. |
| 1:18.0 | What might the next revolution in physics look like? |
| 1:23.2 | How are you doing today, sir? |
| 1:25.2 | Doing well. Thanks for having me on. |
| 1:27.2 | What's something you're working on that you're excited about? |
| 1:31.0 | Oh, you know, I always tend to work on bunches of things at once. |
| 1:36.0 | We have a paper that I'm part of, although the main emphasis comes from Oliver Friedrich, who is a postdoc in Germany, on phenomenal |
| 1:48.7 | logical consequences of holography. So holography, you know, I don't want to go too much into it, |
| 1:54.4 | but the holographic principle is a big thing in physics and in quantum gravity. It says that, |
| 1:59.8 | you know, there's a lot less going on in the world than you might think. |
| 2:03.6 | The world is not really three-dimensional space. It can be thought of as a two-dimensional space with densely encoded quantum information, and we're just a projection of that into the world. |
| 2:14.2 | And so Oliver and a bunch of us tried to propose a way that that would actually make a difference for experimental signatures. |
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