Sean Carroll talks about about his terrific new book, The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion. He also dives into the importance of equations in popular science writing, conservation, Noether’s Theorem, the mechanics of space, the nature of time, black holes, gravity, and many other topics.
After many years at Caltech, Sean is now at Johns Hopkins University - the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy - a joint appointment between physics and philosophy. His research focused on cosmology, field theory, and gravitation, quantum mechanics (origin of probability, emergence of space and time), and statistical mechanics (entropy and the arrow of time, complexity, emergence and causation). He is host of the popular Mindscape podcast.
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Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 2)
Paul Davies on What’s Eating the Universe (Part 1)
How Do Humans Differ from Other Animals?
Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 2)
Frank Wilczek on the Future of Science (Part 1)
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Sara Manning Peskin on the Deepest Mysteries of our Brains
What are Scientific Breakthroughs in Physics?
Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
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Tim Palmer on Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change
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Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam on How Thinking Emerged from Chaos
The Multiverse: What’s Real?
Michio Kaku on Quantum Supremacy
Hilary Lawson on Closure
Are There Extra Dimensions?
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