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Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns
Hopkins University and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.
He is also the host of Sean Carroll’s Mindscape, a podcast about
science, society, philosophy, culture, arts, and ideas. This is
Sean’s fourth appearance on the show. He appeared with David
Albert of Columbia University on episode 106, which covers the
Many-Worlds theory of quantum mechanics, Boltzmann Brains, and
the fine-tuned universe. He was also on episode 118 with Slavoj
Žižek on quantum physics, the multiverse, time travel, and a
whole lot more, and then episode 200 with Daniel Dennett and
Steven Pinker on AI, parapsychology, and consciousness. This
episode is coming out in advance of Sean’s next book, Quanta and
Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe (Penguin, 2024), which
will be released on May 14, 2024. Sean and Robinson discuss many
of the topics and themes of Quanta and Fields, including the
books’ namesake subjects, as well as more decides, like
scientific realism, free will, the simulation hypothesis, and the
end of physics. If you’re interested in the foundations of
physics—which you absolutely should be—then please check out the
JBI, which is devoted to providing a home for research and
education in this important area. Any donations are immensely
helpful at this early stage in the institute’s life.
Sean’s Website: https://www.preposterousuniverse.com
Sean’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanmcarroll
Quanta and Fields (The Biggest Ideas in the Universe):
https://a.co/d/gfMDLQo
The John Bell Institute: https://www.johnbellinstitute.org
OUTLINE
00:00 Introduction
5:00 The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
9:38 Do Physicists Understand Physics?
15:51 What Is the Role of Philosophers in Physics?
18:24 The Measurement Problem and Quantum Field Theory
20:24 Scientific Realism and the Standard Model of Particle
Physics
25:11 What Is the Wave Function?
34:46 What Is Quantum Field Theory?
37:45 What Is the Fundamental Layer of Reality?
41:01 What Is the Standard Model of Particle Physics?
45:42 What Are the Fundamental Objects in the Standard Model of
Particle Physics?
47:39 How Do We Test the Standard Model of Particle Physics?
49:38 What Are the Weaknesses of the Standard Model of Particle
Physics?
54:41 Will We Ever Find a Theory of Everything?
56:19 Is String Theory the Final Theory of Physics?
58:14 String theory and the Fine-Tuning Problem
01:00:18 Is Quantum Gravity the End of Progress in Physics?
01:06:12 What is Philosophical Naturalism?
01:08:05 On Naturalized Epistemology
01:10:24 On the Philosophy of Mathematics
01:19:08 On Naturalizing Morality
01:22:33 The Myths of Quantum Entanglement
01:29:53 Is There Only One Electron?
01:34:09 Are Atoms Mostly Empty Space?
01:36:51 Are We Living in a Simulation?
01:39:58 Is Infinity a Problem for Quantum Mechanics?
01:41:59 The Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics
Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com
Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
with philosophers, scientists, and everyone in-between.
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