Brian Keating interviews Sean Carroll about his book Something Deeply Hidden & Many Worlds (#029)

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on Joe Rogan Sean M. Carroll is a Research Professor of Physics at
CalTech. He is a theorist who thinks about the fundamental laws of
nature, especially as they connect to cosmology. His research
involves theoretical physics and astrophysics, especially
cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. He has worked on
questions involving dark matter and dark energy, modified gravity,
violations of Lorentz invariance, extra dimensions, topological
defects, cosmic microwave background anisotropies, causality
violation, black holes, and the cosmological constant problem.
Currently, most of his attention is focused on the origin of the
universe and the arrow of time, including the roles of inflation,
baby universes, and quantum gravity. Quantum mechanics is the most
important idea in physics, and physicists themselves readily admit
that they don’t understand it. But rather than treating this
situation as an urgent call to action, they have traditionally
pretended that the problem isn’t there. In Something Deeply Hidden,
Sean Carroll argues that this situation is embarrassing and
unnecessary, as we do have a very promising way of understanding
quantum reality: the Many-Worlds theory, pioneered by Hugh Everett.
This book demystifies the paradoxes of quantum mechanics, explains
the Many-Worlds approach at a level never previously attempted in a
popular work, and argues that an improved understanding of the
foundations of quantum mechanics is crucial to making progress on
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