Sean Carroll’s Biggest Ideas (#259)

Sean Carroll joins me to discuss his magnificent new book, The
Biggest Ideas In the Universe. Sean is an American theoretical
physicist and philosopher who specializes in quantum mechanics,
gravity, and cosmology. He is the Homewood Professor of Natural
Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has been a
contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published
in scientific journals such as Nature as well as other
publications, including The New York Times, Sky & Telescope and
New Scientist. He is known for atheism, critique of theism and
defense of naturalism. He has appeared on the History Channel's The
Universe, Science Channel's Through the Wormhole with Morgan
Freeman, Closer to Truth (broadcast on PBS), and Comedy Central's
The Colbert Report. Carroll is the author of Spacetime And
Geometry, a graduate-level textbook in general relativity, and has
also recorded lectures for The Great Courses on cosmology, the
physics of time and the Higgs boson. He is also the author of four
other popular books: From Eternity to Here about the arrow of time,
The Particle at the End of the Universe about the Higgs boson, The
Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe
Itself about ontology, and Something Deeply Hidden about the
foundations of quantum mechanics. He began a podcast in 2018 called
Mindscape, in which he interviews other experts and intellectuals
coming from a variety of disciplines, including "[s]cience,
society, philosophy, culture, arts and ideas" in general.He has
also published a Youtube video series entitled "The Biggest Ideas
in the Universe" which provides physics instruction at a
popular-science level but with equations and a mathematical basis,
rather than mere analogy. The series has become the basis of a new
book series with the installment, "The Biggest Ideas in the
Universe: Space, Time, and Motion".
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