Sean Carroll - Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds & The Emergence of Spacetime

00:00 | Trailer.
02:34 | Brian’s thoughts on the episode.
03:38 | Brian’s introduction.
04:17 | What Sean loves about London and the historical connections to scientific research.
07:16 | The differences and similarities between Caltech, MIT and Harvard for students and postgraduates.
16:11 | Ways of meeting the general population’s interest in quantum physics and cosmology.
18:56 | Why quantum physics are difficult to understand.
25:13 | When scientists began to question Newtonian physics and how we look at the world.
27:56 | The important contributions to science made by Einstein, Feynman, Hawkin and Spore.
35:11 | Why, since 1927 until recently, there has been less curiosity about Quantum Mechanics.
37:50 | Why we have and have not learned from the Hadron Collider.
43:03 | How Quantum Physics are affecting everyone’s daily lives now and will in the future.
47:41 | Sean’s opinions on the Big Bang and parallel universes.
53:15 | The problem of understanding that what you see is not reality and becomes intertwined with philosophy.
57:54 | How Sean explores the philosophical questions of physics which at present cannot be measured.
58:50 | We are already beginning to become cyborgs, when will there be singularity and we live inside the matrix?
1:02:53 | There are dangers ahead in our relationship with technology.
1:06:28 | Positives and negatives of having an implant into the skull communicating directly to the brain.
1:12:02 | The flat earth movement and other beliefs promulgated by disinformation spread by new media.
1:14:12 | Sean’s thoughts on our living in a simulation and in the future, our ability to create several versions of ourselves.
1:21:32 | Laplace and Boltzmann, two physicists whose ideas Sean would like more widely appreciated.
1:27:41 | Sean doesn’t equate religion with science, but that poses its own questions.
1:31:04 | What Sean thinks is the meaning of life.
1:35:34 | The main message Sean would like people to take from reading his book Something Deeply Hidden.
1:37:02 | The current focus of his work at Caltech.
1:38:03 | What he means by space time.
1:40:44 | The influence of ethics on his work.
1:43:40 | Sean’s daily practice.
1:44:59 | What is his superpower.
1:48:45 | What is on his bucket list.
1:51:43 | How he writes.
1:55:17 | The best and worst days of his life.
1:58:17 | Would he contemplate going into commerce?
1:59;35 | What scares him.
2:04:21 | What we would be surprised to learn about Sean Carroll.
2:07:20 | Success secrets.
2:07:56 | Brian’s summing up.