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Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

The Biggest Ideas w/ Sean Carroll

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Science, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined for the third time by Dr. Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and professor of natural philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. They talk about his new book, "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion" as well as the fascinating relationship between physics, philosophy, politics, psychology, and so much more. Follow Sean: @seanmcarroll

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday October 17th

0:17.2

2022 and I'm the host of the show Kara Santa Maria. It's my birthday week.

0:23.6

Yep, turning the big three nine.

0:25.6

It's a rough one.

0:27.5

I know many of you who have been there done that

0:29.7

are like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

0:31.8

And I know the big four-o will be interesting

0:34.0

and it'll be a milestone,

0:35.0

but there's something about like the entering

0:36.8

the last year of your 30s.

0:38.2

That's kind of existential.

0:40.6

But that'll be happening soon.

0:43.0

We get a little existential on the show this week.

0:45.0

It's a really fun one for you guys.

0:47.0

I, you know, I just, I love having conversations with this week's guest.

0:51.0

But before we dive into it, I do want to thank those of you who

0:54.2

continue to make TalkNurdy possible. Remember Talk Nurdy is free. It's always

0:58.0

going to be free. If you want to listen to it you can listen to it. You may have to

1:01.4

listen to some ads, but that's the way capitalism works, right?

1:06.8

This helps me keep the show going. So I sell ads on the show, but I also rely on the support

1:11.8

of individuals like you.

1:14.2

And if you want to be a patron of the show, you can actually listen to the show without ads.

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