Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | June 2024 

Always makes me happy to see an episode of mindscape coming out

Good luck with your book. love listening to you. Thank you.

The deepest Sean caroll quote of all time 2:10:29 “France, like many other countries, is a whole country”

♥️from🇨🇦 . Thank u sincerely for your hard work . The episode is great . ( Far from a colossal letdown . Lol sheesh, some people's children , eh ? )

In two days i receive both "Biggest ideas" books. Happy and scared 😅

Have to listen later, when fully awake!

Congratulations on your book - I’m late per usual lol. I think when I show up lol- you finish my statement lol

And it would be so interesting to invite those first opinions for a discussion on how they arrived at their conclusion.. I wonder what evidence they use to support their position.. or not. Your choice..

Ok I'm back 4 and a half hours later, had to pause to watch Hancock Dibble on rogan

I really like your vibe...link uo Saint Lucia

Sean - Please bring your book tour to SEATTLE! The weather will be stunning this summer..you'll love it! :)

Just wait for all the reviews from people who haven't read a word from the book. They are usually the most critical.

I will try your "cast iron skillet pizza with Whole Foods pizza dough" sort of recipe...

Sean, you should contact Adam Curry of the No Agenda podcast. All of his podcasts are searchable. He can probably give you some tips and perhaps point you to the tool he used. Good luck!

i love the book plz more mathy books

How can such a smart man be so ignorant of first person experience, if you teleport - clone an individual, you will see the other - without experiencing it, your first person experience would not be there. Scientist need to take some phenomenology courses.

The future of mankind is not a question of technology, it is a question of who has control over the resources of the planet, as that determines how our technology is employed, and our access to what we need to survive. This is both my field of interest and study. However, the deciding factor is a psychological one, and our ability to break free of the current economic paradigm whereby the "the 1%" control all land and resources, and therefore decide how technology is used, and our access to what we need to live. capitalism is a suicidal death wish. A barell of a gun pointed at our heads, and the trigger has been pulled. I did not study political economy because I thought it would be interesting, I studied it begrudgingly, because there is nothing more important to understand, than how the economy works as it determines the distribution and use of natural resources, some of which take millions of years for the earth to reproduce, some of which can never be reproduced due to man's interfering with the environment, while population levels are critical and are well in excess of what can be sustained. Earth's population doubles every 24 years at 3% growth, while oil production reached peak in 2008, and is now in a permanent decline. How many people have any basic working knowledge of economics? I dot know if those figures exist, but it is certainly less than 1%

Your intelligence is therapeutic. Many will know what I mean. So, thank you for what you do. Just another human hoping to express the fraction of gratitude we all feel for you.

Top notch content as always 👌

I don’t pretend perfection but the idea that we live in a multidimensional multiverse is the most exciting, since consciousness creates materiality. The energy of thought, belief, action allows reality of wanted or wanted human awareness. Therefore, the delightful is fundamentally possible and probable as a way of viewing possibility. So, Whatyagonnado dear creator of your deserved and chosen reality. 🐝kind Thank you. 🎶💥🎯🌸

I’m 70% through Quanta and Fields, so far I’m enjoying the content more than Space, Time, and Motion. Being able to share complex theory and equations to a general audience like myself is a treat, and I enjoy the deviation from the generic pop science books.

Hi Dr. Carroll, I believe you and Brien Greene are two of the foremost educators on social media today on the topic of quantum mechanics. I know you have said before that you cannot devote too much time on the podcast and the RU-vid videos are a lot of work. I wish you would reconsider. Quantum mechanics is a self taught topic for me and it has changed my life. I have learned so much from yours and Dr. Greene’s videos especially Dr. Greene’s daily equations videos. I am a visual person and to see Einstein’s field equation fully explained, graphically, is amazing and easier to understand than a podcast. Anyway, the purpose of this comment is to thank you for your dedication to educating the public. Thank you!

As always, thank you Sean. Appreciate your work

Dear Prof❤ 1st Thank you again for your free education 🥳🥳🥳 Please come to Berlin with loads of colleagues! I will put some money aside so I can buy all🙈 your books and also via audible🥰 I need both to keep up as possible ( I might have some difficulties on learning 🙈🙈🙈...like a snail🤣) Pretty please please please 🙏 🙏 🙏 Best Cleaning Lady Berlin, Germany

Imagine Sean Carroll with his team leading The United States of America

Tbh came here after Lex Fridman. Love the content, thanks a bunch. Im a math and stats guy, but lovvveeee physics

This is the worst work week of the year for me. Thank you so much for this episode, Sean. Gonna help get through it a lot! Keep 'em coming, Gonna be getting the audiobook for the new book soon as well, hope it's selling great!

4 hours ?! Wow thank you professor.

Id live to ask about my idea of intergalactic voids being giant moving energy fields. When they collide, where the collision velocity approaches speed of light (SOL), time dilation and space contraction happen, collapsing the space into tiny spinning fields. When we observe these fields, we need to acceptbwe are also moving. Where our movement synchronizes with the spining field, we will "see" only that part. I.e. it will appear as a "particle" that appears to move around the field. As thebidea developes, it explains the double slit phenomenon, expansion, why galaxies rotate they way they do etc.

A question for Sean Carroll. Ask yourself how old you are and how old you will be on your next birthday. This is not a trick question, but make sure you recheck your figures before you answer.

I'm working my way through space time and motion before getting into quanta and fields and as someone who's math education never reached precalc/calc I'm really excited by the idea that I can just learn what the math MEANS. So far is very doable and I hope more take this approach in the future

Is it just me, but the question about whether to include a chapter on Causation hits in Vol 3 hits my ironic/funny bone.

you know what I'd love in a book with mathematical formulas? long variable names.. I get it's very standard for physics to have a symbol for everything, but in software we give everything a descriptive name. It really helps understanding complex statements! I loved your first book but I found it really difficult to process a complex formula with lots of symbols, and sometimes I'd have to go back half a chapter to remind myself what the fancy d means. totally worth the effort however, these are the books I've been wishing for for years, thank you for writing them

Iam a lawyer 2, but I like dero ideas, I don't know much math. But regardless, I like to think about deep ideas..can You explain tge I libations about turning off the Edron cholider?

"You who build these altars now/to sacrifice these children/you must not do it anymore/a scheme is not a vision/you never have been tempted/by a demon or a god" -Leonard Cohen, The Story of Isaac

Critical thinking I think is an esoteric concept I believe you are super qualified to teach.. just presenting the board and other concepts that echo situations that may point people in directions to offer perspective- your voice is very important.. gratitude

2nd comment on this episode from me. i dont think i heard sean say he s pro the block universe perspective, before this episode. i thought i was missing something or it seemed too basic/simple as a concept when i first heard about it (while learning about einsteins relativity theories) and that while an elegant idea it was most likely incomplete.. but this makes me feel less stupid i guess to hear sean basically be on my team and kind of vindicates my initial intuition about it, nice! ;D brilliant!

culinerily speaking i could go with america for if you can afford it. but on a per dollar basis, the us is certainly terrible. try japan especcially now with the weak yen. it´s god tier on all price levels

We bother because we give a shit. No worries if you don’t agree… but Paul revere was the messenger. Don’t shoot the messenger!

Diversity of information authors, publishers, universities, libraries, etc may offer insight

“Fettled Grunt Buggly” out of interest is some Vogon poetry, the third worst poetry in the universe….

100 emails every day ... wow.. We need a message assistant based on large language models to at least group the mails a bit.

I went to Paris once and accidentally dropped by phone in the river. It was in Seine.

I hear, “Are you ready to RUMBLE?!!”

Please have Neil Turok back on the show and focus on all you disagree on. He says there's been no experiment to show many worlds, thinks Schrodinger's equation predicts nothing since wavefunction doesn't collapse really, and I'd love to see your rebuttals to his ideas to these and his new model of a simplistic model of the universe which proposes to insert the fewest unknowns and gives the best explanations.

I lived in Santa Fe for seven years.

Please prove us wrong!

I'm a lawyer by profession and here I am in the Mindscape family trying to understand quantum field theory. I find it so much fun and satisfying to know myself. I struggle to read through the equations but want to know more. And just listen to some pods to open my eyes then I go to read.

Check out this paper 'the origin of mass and nature of gravity' you will get all answers

It hasn't been determined if there will be a chapter on causation. Sounds like quite the conundrum

In book 3 I think Sean is going to have to get into category theory and not just group theory.

Nice!

See the paper' origin of mass and nature of gravity'

These are great.

Saving up to buy book one, almost there😊

The space is not empty, it is full of energy

Sean really needs to brush up on Searle's Chinese room thought experiment. It's not about consciousness. It's about syntax and semantics.

I have no information at all about your book but 1 way would have been to put all the heavy stuff at the end of the book as reference and stream line the lecture with link to the end for those who want to go deep. That someone could read the book then reread it later taking is time with the equation on the second pass while skipping it on the first lecture. 😜

book review was awesome 😁

Thanks Sean❤

Commensurable is not a word is it?

My question is: What is consciousness and does mind emerge with quantum events?

To make the world a better place make beef more expensive. That's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in my life. Sean wants poor people to starve to death. Has he never read a book by someone who didn't have money to eat ?! To make the world a better place we should have peoples lifes in front of money.

Did you ever thought that entangled particle might all be connected by worm holes ?

PLEASE PEOPLE WE REALLY REALLY NEED to hear Sean Carroll respond to/ debunk/ describe what might be interesting or true about Terrance Howards theories

Dear Doctor, if the multiverse evolves naturally from the Schrodinger equation, as you believe, it seems that everything in the Mulltiuniverse is possible. If eternalism also applies, there seems to be a superderministic static universe that happens to be all at once. It reminds me of God's definition?

"Make beef more expensive, to make less desirqble systematically for everyone in the world " except for rich people, like people who spend hundreds of dollars on a bottle of wine... like yourself. Beef comes from cows, cows ARE the environment, they can't be bad for the environment. "But muh methane" already disproven.