The Crisis in (Fundamental) Physics is Worse Than You Think...

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  • @TheoriesofEverything
    @TheoriesofEverything  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    As a listener of TOE, you can now enjoy full digital access to The Economist and all it has to offer. Get a 20% off discount by visiting: www.economist.com/toe
    Timestamps:
    00:00 - Intro
    01:23 - Sean’s Current Work (Holographic Principle)
    07:02 - Duality in De Sitter Spacetime
    14:24 - “Let’s Talk About Philosophy”
    30:36 - The Crisis in Fundamental Physics
    45:02 - Pseudoscience / Heterodox Ideas
    50:30 - Unconventional Physics Theories
    56:02 - Funding Unconventional Theories
    01:00:58 - “The Experimenters are Guided by Theorists”
    01:02:45 - Sean’s Latest Paper “Beyond Falsifiability”
    01:11:40 - Poetic Naturalism
    01:13:30 - Morals, Aesthetics, Philosophy
    01:17:24 - Boltzmann
    01:22:55 - The Big Bang
    01:25:28 - Holography / Quantum Gravity
    01:29:20 - “Publish or Perish!”
    01:33:59 - Dark Matter
    01:36:35 - Something New to Blow Your Mind
    01:39:52 - Loop Quantum Gravity
    01:50:26 - Outro / Support TOE

    • @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
      @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      3:33 Toroidal flow. I appreciate the acknowledgment of my proposal earlier talking about 2d state of universe... was not meant to let anyone know who doesn't already but does let those who do know the logical progression of the spatial Dimensions that you have acknowledged the recurring ♾️ in the logical progression pattern.

    • @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
      @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      19:26 i say the new equation would be to measure the acceleration upwards towards Infinity and how much that acceleration increases or decreases with the infinite dimensional scaling problem i decided to call it just now... so from here on out i will reference it as the infinite dimensional scaling problem.🎉

    • @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
      @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dark energy and dark matter are 2 forms of the same thing. Energy=Mass×constant² (E=MC²) energy is mass while in motion and why we need string theory because where does the mass go after redshifting... the process of a red shifting is it shedding its strings that it is composed of and this makes it more lightweight which makes it lighter weight which makes it bounce on the wave Spectrum on a longer skip... this is the Logic on why we need string theory and why particle physics is doomed because we're going to need to explain this so what we should be doing is building colliders to look for Strings eventually and focusing on that small of a scale

    • @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
      @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I always reconsider every time things don't work out my way so that's how I have made such incredible Leaps to what does work out.

    • @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler
      @AquarianSoulTimeTraveler 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like when people say they aren't going to worry about someone's critiques and then if someone comes up with the best critique of all time and comes up with a theory that other person who said they're not going to worry about someone's critiques isn't even going to read their Theory so you basically just built yourself up on a throne and surrounding yourself with an echo chamber

  • @JimMcHugsU
    @JimMcHugsU 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +445

    Someone once asked if Strings could be proved experimentally. The String said no, I'm a frayed knot.

    • @theostapel
      @theostapel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      I feel roped along - by that humorous note. Hope it makes sense in English - (from Germany)

    • @alkintugsal7563
      @alkintugsal7563 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      😂

    • @vladimirrogozhin7797
      @vladimirrogozhin7797 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Someone once asked if Strings could be proved experimentally.
      Yes. But Strings still needs a Guitar and a Good Guitarist
      th-cam.com/video/nUtTfjq7CyU/w-d-xo.html
      Guitar vs. "Big Bang"...
      Guitar will win!

    • @theostapel
      @theostapel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vladimirrogozhin7797 pling ploing pling
      (An actual text version of me sonata in Z - for guitar and strange meditation) Thanks.
      Fare thee well - on life's journey

    • @theostapel
      @theostapel 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@alkintugsal7563 I do not use emojis - but mine would be the same as yours - with the mouth missing 3 teeth - yet laughing unashamedly. Keep tuning - humour/heart
      Fare thee well - on life's journey

  • @Peter-vn5jq
    @Peter-vn5jq 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +175

    >the audience of this podcast are all mathematicians etc
    Look, I'm gonna listen to it anyway. Will I understand much? No, no I won't. But you can't stop me.

    • @matthewlennon6289
      @matthewlennon6289 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Appreciate Curt punching up on our behalf so we can get more detailed and nuanced discussions. It’s past time that physics communicators recognized the format. There’s enough “high-level introduction to (insert physics subtopic)” all over YT. I don’t care if I understand it right away, I can research and revisit these conversations.

    • @linkgunther1618
      @linkgunther1618 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@matthewlennon6289I agree. I was happy when he basically said don't simplify or dumb anything down - we can handle it. It was refreshing to hear something other than a repeat of most other interviews or videos. I would love to see how someone that only gives oversimplified responses like Kaku would handle an interview that required punched up results. I have heard and read enough of Carroll's stuff that I was confident this was gonna be a good interview, and I wasn't disappointed.

    • @radscorpion8
      @radscorpion8 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@linkgunther1618 I would be happy if he gave discussions at both levels of expertise, but yes if i had to choose i'd want the more detailed version

    • @CashedoutLookingup
      @CashedoutLookingup 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Hey, I'm right here with you nodding and enjoying the pretty words. Seriously though this stuff is amazing!

    • @hanswissmeyer9950
      @hanswissmeyer9950 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I had to quit after 4 minutes. First need a bunch of videos that explains to me what AdS-CFT in d-dimensions do, otherwise it is all just gibberish like in a 60´s Sci-Fi movie. Love Penrose vids. It is allways great fun to watch him struggle with his presentation material & in all that chaos sometimes & miraculously there slips an information through that even I can understand.

  • @IlEagle.1G
    @IlEagle.1G 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

    Great job getting Sean into rare form! He went higher level here than he had on probably any other podcast (excluding his own)

  • @bongomcgurk7363
    @bongomcgurk7363 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +186

    It is vids like this that highlight the true value of TH-cam.

    • @MarceloSeravalli
      @MarceloSeravalli 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      true and the effect of the informatics revolution. And haven't even process that revolution yet, and we have a new one with AI
      crazy times dudes

    • @eyedl
      @eyedl 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I disagree) they don't highlight the value of YT. they have their own value that YT lives off

    • @bongomcgurk7363
      @bongomcgurk7363 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@eyedl YT lives off a great deal much of which whose value is questionable or non-existent relative to value highlighted by this vid, impervious to the dissenting vacuity of semantic pedantry

    • @daffidavit
      @daffidavit 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bongomcgurk7363 I completely agree.

    • @James-ll3jb
      @James-ll3jb 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Not Sean, no

  • @cuulcars
    @cuulcars 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    This is possibly the best episode of TOE ever. I am an avid mindscape listener; I hope this brings Sean into the TOE rotating cast (as so often happens with guests who discover they like being asked complicated questions).

    • @TheoriesofEverything
      @TheoriesofEverything  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Thank you so much! Do let Sean know. - Curt

  • @TheMikesylv
    @TheMikesylv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +404

    If I had to bet on string theory or Penrose my money would be on Penrose

    • @aaronclarke1434
      @aaronclarke1434 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

      If you had a third option that both are wrong, it’d be better to bet on that.

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@aaronclarke1434 So you would rather engage in gambling than think for yourself?

    • @PetraKann
      @PetraKann 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      So you would rather engage in gambling than think for yourself?

    • @carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523
      @carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      I know that Penrose is wrong in his theory about consciousness.

    • @epajarjestys9981
      @epajarjestys9981 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@carlosenriquegonzalez-isla6523 How do you know?

  • @richard127gm
    @richard127gm 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +91

    Our audience is mostly Scientists, Mathematicians and Graduates. Hears me, silently, Embarrassingly backing out of the room.

    • @pdxeddie1111
      @pdxeddie1111 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      maybe there are a lot of those but maybe half of us are just the curious. No crime to be curious though the so called wise and learned would probably disagree with that. (they don't want anyone noticing how ignorant they really are) LOL

    • @christinearmington
      @christinearmington 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep 👍🤦‍♀️

    • @reversefulfillment9189
      @reversefulfillment9189 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      You might find a few garden variety stoners in the audience too.

    • @plexus
      @plexus 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How did he hear you back out of the room if you did it silently?
      ...checkmate.

    • @publiusrunesteffensen5276
      @publiusrunesteffensen5276 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@plexus Entanglement.

  • @KevinsDisobedience
    @KevinsDisobedience 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

    Sean is a national treasure. While a legitimate working physicist, I think of him as a clear, original thinker. We’re lucky to have him as a representative of the expert class. He’s done the work, as a scientist and a philosopher, and actually cares about being understood.

  • @pauldriscoll6319
    @pauldriscoll6319 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    I really like this guy, he has a way to help explain extreamly complex concepts, ideas, in a way that reaches people who do not have to have PHD's in anything.

    • @Mmmmkaaay
      @Mmmmkaaay 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Which is a feat indeed. I'm often lost listening to Lex Fridman's guests too.

    • @Osaaamaaa
      @Osaaamaaa 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@pauldriscoll6319 you should listen to his mindscape podcast. It's a gem

  • @JasonAStillman
    @JasonAStillman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    Carroll is, and have been, one of the most remarkable 'explainers' I've ever seen..

    • @robotaholic
      @robotaholic 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The best

    • @juzhang6665
      @juzhang6665 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He’s the most articulate science communicator I’ve ever seen.

  • @UniverseSpeck
    @UniverseSpeck 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

    "The audience tends to be researchers and professors in math physics, comp sci, philosophy, etc..." Well damn, 20 years of youtube and self-teaching on the internet is getting me in clubs with the cool kids. Sometimes wish I could go back to school to study this stuff. Have a mind for it. But who needs 200k in debt?

    • @A-cat-suki
      @A-cat-suki 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@UniverseSpeck peterson academy

    • @Braun09tv
      @Braun09tv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      A lot of work with the result, that reality and dream are the same. Any dream is real, so every reality can be a dream.

    • @jamesnewman8011
      @jamesnewman8011 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      You don't have to go to school to learn anything. All the information taught in school is available online, it juat takes a bit more research without having the structure of school. I think the biggest benefit of school is having access to labs and other people well versed in the material.

    • @notesfromthebreeze
      @notesfromthebreeze 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I feel the same way. I love this stuff but way out of my depth credentiallu

    • @moussaadem7933
      @moussaadem7933 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@Braun09tv You're equivocating on the use of the word "is", the first use is of predication and the second use is of identity.

  • @HardTimes2.0
    @HardTimes2.0 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    I have my grade 8 and still understand everything you guys discuss. Cheers from a homeless 42 year old in Toronto. I
    love all of you

    • @sacr3
      @sacr3 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yea Toronto is pretty rough in terms of costs. I refuse to work in Toronto, even though my career wants to take me that way, cost of living is ridiculous

    • @TheoriesofEverything
      @TheoriesofEverything  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Hang in there, friend. Which part of the city are you based in? - Curt

    • @baalstone675
      @baalstone675 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      I'm a carpenter in Papua New Guinea with a 11th grade formal education and I've watched every one of Curt's videos. Makes us wonder who we really are.
      Hang in there mate. To Curt, I truly appreciate the content.

    • @slatinadidi
      @slatinadidi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I’m a hairstylist in Florida. Love listening 🙏🏻🥰

    • @TheoriesofEverything
      @TheoriesofEverything  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@slatinadidi Wonderful. Where specifically?

  • @NomenNescio99
    @NomenNescio99 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    I had hoped to get to bed early tonight, now this.
    Well shit, that ain't going to happen.

    • @rjac001
      @rjac001 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Listen in bed with headphones

    • @NomenNescio99
      @NomenNescio99 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I viewed the episode once again today while fully awake, and wow - great episode.

    • @ShonMardani
      @ShonMardani 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Carroll is in a loop, like others they never know the truth and they say we will never know the truth either.

  • @BenReierson
    @BenReierson 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Really enjoying catching up on this one, and greatly appreciate when you've decided to add an explanation of a concept here and there for context.

  • @trashstratum
    @trashstratum 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I love Sean Carroll. He's an excellent communicator. That being said, he seems to play a role in the "Silence" component of the "crisis". I don't blame him, it's necessary-attention is a limited resource and prioritizing allocation of it is of paramount importance. If I were him though, I'd probably open the gates I'm keeping every once in a while and direct at least some attention to the more popular alternatives, regardless of the pedigree or origin of those ideas, firstly as a public service to communicate why others shouldn't waste their attention on those ideas, and secondly in the off chance I might learn something new

    • @ahmedkhan25
      @ahmedkhan25 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You have to remember that science communicators popular enough as Sean Carroll, are getting inundated daily by crackpots, failed theorists and attention seekers - this would def make him a bit jaded and prone to gatekeeping and close minded - much like Simon Cowell is a bit jaded against lay performers
      My own thoughts are that once LLMs and AI develop formal proof and theorizing capacity that unpopular theorists and outsiders will be able to upload our pet theory to them and get a “translation” that considers all active theories for comparison and lets us know if we have something
      A Cyber physics pope so to say :) let’s see
      I def think that Curt’s channel is great btw

    • @rippedtorn2310
      @rippedtorn2310 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Can you give an example of him silencing an idea ?

    • @trashstratum
      @trashstratum 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@rippedtorn2310 I'm not aware of him 'silencing' any particular idea. I'm referring to part of this video that explains the three parts of the crisis, particularly part 3 "The Great Silence" (52:38). I am basing my opinion off of what he said about how he decides to allocate his attention-which is entirely his perogative and totally understandable, and nevertheless contributes to that part of the problem.
      His expert communication skills could be quite useful to others if he decided to pay at least some of his attention toward the more popular ideas of those who he claims 'haven't put in the work', or 'don't get the basics', even if just cursorily explaining what work hasn't been put in or what hasn't been understood.

    • @jonspalding7004
      @jonspalding7004 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is similar to the suggestion that people who are developing new vaccines would benefit from studying quantum field theory. Perhaps they could benefit, but it would be a waste of time and slow down the next vaccine development.

    • @trashstratum
      @trashstratum 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Actually, it's not similar to that at all

  • @Grassmanian
    @Grassmanian 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Just so you know it's not just physics professors and graduates who love listening to your intricate podcasts! I hope you were as excited to interview him as I was to see this upload

  • @oiooiioioiooioii5400
    @oiooiioioiooioii5400 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    "They appreciate and crave the details" Carl says when Sean asked how detailed he should go. You know your audience well, and those of us here appreciate this. Thank you!

  • @suestreet9934
    @suestreet9934 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Your interviewing and this TH-cam mode really get Sean Carroll at his best. Good stuff

  • @autisticalchemist
    @autisticalchemist 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Paradigms tend to be unraveled from the fringes. And the fringes are populated by those fearless individuals who put substance before ego. Thankfully in our day we have podcasts like yours. Keep giving the fringes a voice. 🙏

  • @James-ll3jb
    @James-ll3jb 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Leonard Susskind said, "The three-dimensional world of ordinary experience--the universe filled with galaxies, stars, planets, houses, boulders, and people--is a hologram, an image of reality coded on a distant two-dimensional surface."
    .....There is no evidential justification for this assertion whatsoever! 😅

  • @jjjccc728
    @jjjccc728 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Sean is a beast when it comes to expressing himself about science. As a regular listener to his podcast his ability to express himself about other areas is also very impressive. He has obviously at his best when he's talking about physics.

    • @bigboicreme
      @bigboicreme 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh ok

  • @context_eidolon_music
    @context_eidolon_music 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    This level of technical detail is truly excellent. Thank you. Carroll is awesome.

  • @emilgustavsson7310
    @emilgustavsson7310 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    Wow.. Carroll in the house. No sleep 'til 4am then. Sweet.

    • @francoisperrin7397
      @francoisperrin7397 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Why would you listen to someone who has not explained any observables throughout his entire career?! You should watch the videos about the Janus Cosmological Model by Jean-Pierre Petit. His physics will humble any cosmologists because it can explain around 20 observables including the Great Repeller. You'll also learn that every single cosmologists did not read the fundamental articles about the General Relativity because they were published in German. They then built the current flawed models such as lambda-CDM and Black Holes based on the Telephone Game. Laziness at all stages and throughout 3 generations of physicists.

  • @snarkyboojum
    @snarkyboojum 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    Love that Carroll was a Philosophy minor as an undergrad. I was a Physics minor 😎

    • @vladimirrogozhin7797
      @vladimirrogozhin7797 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *Philosophy is the Most Rigorous and Joyful Science, “mother of all sciences.”*

    • @James-ll3jb
      @James-ll3jb 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Carroll is still a pgilosophy "minor"😅

    • @PedroTricking
      @PedroTricking 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@vladimirrogozhin7797philosophy is the MOST rigorous? that has to be obviously not true no? it doesn't make philosophy bad, there's so many amazing things out there that are not rigorous

    • @vladimirrogozhin7797
      @vladimirrogozhin7797 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@PedroTricking
      John A. Wheeler: *_"Philosophy is too important to be left to philosophers."_*
      A.N. Whitehead: *_"A precise language must await a completed metaphysical knowledge."_*

  • @Horus001
    @Horus001 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    Hi Curt,
    I've been following you for a long time and your channel is awesome!
    I love following your super smart conversations, but could I ask you a little favor?
    Could you "not" disable the subtitles automatically generated by TH-cam?
    I ask you because in many videos, cuts have been made, and the subtitles inserted by you, are out of sync;
    also, for some languages, like Italian, the sentences become so long, that it is difficult to read at the speed of your words.
    Instead, the automatic ones of TH-cam, follow one another with a shorter metric and it becomes easier to follow your speeches.
    If you can't do it, no problem ... I still want to tell you that you have one of the most spectacular channels on TH-cam!
    Keep it up!
    Greetings from Italy!
    Marsio Salcuni 🙂

    • @TheoriesofEverything
      @TheoriesofEverything  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Thank you I will look into doing this!

    • @Horus001
      @Horus001 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@TheoriesofEverything You know, different languages ​​all over the world, I think that's the real problem that slows down progress in everything...
      Thank you so much for your kindness!

  • @JohnCohorn
    @JohnCohorn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    I'm so glad you asked for some more detailed discussion on the holographic principle. I was just thinking a minute ago that I would like to write similar questions for Sean to maybe answer on his podcast.

    • @TheoriesofEverything
      @TheoriesofEverything  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Thank you!

    • @JAYMOAP
      @JAYMOAP 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      +1 great questions Kurt

  • @Schtoopot
    @Schtoopot 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Curt on guitar, Sean on bass, Wolfram on drums and Hoffman on vocals

    • @goldwhitedragon
      @goldwhitedragon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And Chris Langan as song writer.

  • @SystemsMedicine
    @SystemsMedicine 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Freud meets a string theorist @1:28:20…
    Freud: Greetings, my patient. Are you a string theorist?
    String Theorist: No, I’m thinking about theoretical physics.
    Freud: Ah, so…. Then you say you are not actually a string theorist?
    String Theorist: No, definitely not.
    Freud: But you have been working on string theory for 50 years, without producing a verifiable experiment, even in principle.
    String Theorist: I’m not a string theorist… I’m not… I’m not…
    Freud: Perhaps shame leads to concealment?
    String Theorist: I hate you.
    Freud: Ah, transference. We have much to discuss…
    String Theorist: OK, as long as you don’t call me a string theorist! Now, let me tell you about my latest string theory, it’s so fascinating, and this time, it MUST be correct…
    Freud: I think I’ll light a cigar.

  • @quarkraven
    @quarkraven 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Excellent episode. BTW I'm not a grad student or professor, but I adore being able to hear Professor Carroll speak at a level slightly higher than the usual podcast.

  • @lumendrift8001
    @lumendrift8001 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you Curt and Sean. This was a fantastic discussion. As a young person who grew up before youtube in a small town, I had no science mentors. I didn't even take physics in high-school. As an AI specialist and technologist, I fell in love with physics as a middle aged adult. You both have greatly encouraged me to dip my toes into esoteric waters. Many of the subjects you cover impact both my field and curiosity. I'm going back and learning math that I neglected in my younger days. I want to better understand this reality. All that you both do is greatly appreciated.

  • @sabineb.5616
    @sabineb.5616 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    I have been married to a string theorist for nearly forty years. He started to pursue string theory in the 1980s, when it was seen as exciting and somewhat exotic. But the string theorists were still in the minority. I witnessed how it became all the rage in the 1990s. In 1997 the annual big string conference was held in Germany and a famous physicist who was confined to a wheel chair and spoke to us with a computer generated voice, invited himself, although he wasn't a string theorist. The consequence was that mainstream media went completely crazy, and when Kennedy Junior died in a plane crash, the weekly print magazines had the physicists on the title page instead of Kennedy! It was generally believed that the "theory of everything" was just around the corner. Well, it didn't exactly come true. Eventually the excitement decreased. And nowadays it has become fashionable to lash out against string theory. Some people even claim that there is a conspiracy, and the most famous and accomplisbed string theorist Ed Witten is called the Lord Voldemort of physics, who actually wanted to stall the progress of modern physics and keep the physics community busy with pursuing a grail which they could never reach 😊 While the disenchantment is understandable, and string theory couldn't live up to it's initial promise, people react with discarding the baby with the bathtub - and many of these nay-sayers aren't even physicists! This talk is refreshingly different and far more level-headed. And I know from personal experience that string theorists got swamped with ideas which were sent to them with the request to evaluate them, and it was simply impossible to look into all of them and figure out if they had some merit. There was not enough time for doing this. This has nothing to do with arrogance, although it may be true that paradigm changes are slow to happen.

    • @greggstrasser5791
      @greggstrasser5791 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      However you slice it, it’s bullshit. You can’t falsify another dimension, so the goalposts just keep getting moved. Meanwhile, an entire generation is stunted because the media keeps pushing Einstein, who wasn’t regarded enough to get peer reviewed, oddly enough.

  • @ricksgrandauditorium8790
    @ricksgrandauditorium8790 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Your videos are so well done now Curt. Great editing, great everything. Thank you.

  • @bobcousins4810
    @bobcousins4810 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    In a sense, physics has always been in crisis. There have always been unanswered questions which seem unclear how to resolve, until a theory comes forward which takes us in a completely new direction. It is perhaps a bit early to say whether physics has stagnated.
    If there is a crisis, it may be that getting at deeper structure requires ever higher energies, which require highly expensive projects like the LHC. It may be that as we seek answers to harder problems, our progress slows down.

  • @jbourgeois1982
    @jbourgeois1982 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hi Curt. First time listener to your channel. I’m not a student or scientist, just a lover of science and cosmology. Been following Sean for years now. He’s an absolute beast and one of the best communicators of high concept, hard to understand subjects. We are lucky to have someone like him to be able to break things down for people like me to understand. I loved your approach to this talk. You’ve gained a new subscriber

    • @TheoriesofEverything
      @TheoriesofEverything  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Welcome! Hope you enjoy the channel. I look forward to your comments.

  • @akumar7366
    @akumar7366 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I started following Sean during Covid and it's the best thing I did at that time, I left school with very little education and now on my early 60,s I so wish I had gone onto collgue to graduate but some four years on watching hundreds of Vlogs, I feel very confident following science and enjoying the learning process.

    • @maramclaine830
      @maramclaine830 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You did well to avoid the poisonous fumes of Academia. Self education is having the ability to remain open to new information. Unlike traditional higher education .

    • @WatchinVids1.4
      @WatchinVids1.4 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I too share ur sentiment 💯💯

    • @98danielray
      @98danielray 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@maramclaine830also to remain very ignorant.

    • @maramclaine830
      @maramclaine830 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @98danielray. Perhaps? In my personal experience it is a uninformed opinion. Too which you are Perfectly entitled to hold. We all walk a unique Path HOME to Source. As Above So Below. All is in Motion. ALL is in Flow.

    • @Littleprinceleon
      @Littleprinceleon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@98danielray Can you point me to earlier videos on this channel under which you were able to engage in meaningful conversation(s)?
      I'm new here.
      Cheers from a molecular biologist

  • @pdc7482
    @pdc7482 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As a no longer practicing physicist I am so happy having discover your channel. You have truly outstanding guests and have them maintain the right level for a non-expert audience though balancing with more in depth insight and math. During this wonderful episode I thought:
    - You might consider hosting a 2 or 3 parties’ debates
    - Was surprised as occasionally you discussed K Popper’s philosophy there was no mention of David Deutsch: he would be a great addition hugely clarifying epistemology and quantum theory
    - I would like to more in-depth discussion on experimental verification of theories, follow on LHC and/or other colliders, precision cosmology...
    - My ah ah moment was when Sean discussed so clearly the Boltzmann H theorem and the criticism by David Albert
    - I liked the short discussion on LQG, maybe to be extended
    Great work: I’ll not miss your other episodes.

  • @LearningWithSuj
    @LearningWithSuj 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    What an outstanding podcast! I’ll have to listen to this one again on my commute to work in the morning.

  • @Sneaky-Sneaky
    @Sneaky-Sneaky 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I and many do not believe gravity is quantum at all!!

  • @Mrhollowdadon
    @Mrhollowdadon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Simply superb Curt, well done! ❤️

  • @mrloop1530
    @mrloop1530 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It seems only natural that the questions are becoming ever harder. That is not a crisis in physics but just the nature of reality. A crisis in physics would be if we stopped exploring and investigating, and that is certainly not the case.

  • @williamjmccartan8879
    @williamjmccartan8879 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cool intro
    Interesting discription for the event horizon to be a equaliberated quantum entanglement. 3:51
    Follow through with the marketing 6:03
    Interesting move with the question at 15:58
    Great mic drop by Sean 23:15
    Sean has great material on his channel 29:44
    That was a really good podcast you put together Curt 31:36
    Physicist's can't figure out a way to allocate money, and they call themselves physicist's, 2funny 41:03
    Another mic drop 47:19
    Sean is speaking directly to me, 2funny 50:10
    52:18 taking Chloe out, first hour has been great
    56:01 Back, good point about knowing the landscape you are part of, Sean's reply is balanced unless I'm missing something.
    1:01:39 Lot's of timestamps, I know, but great break, with, re-centering the subject matter of the discourse
    1:05:17 I'd like to have Sean talk with Gregg Henriques if you could do that, taking a look outside the physics of science, but remaining in science
    Sean is a very good science communicator, and Curt your on the ball brother 123:16
    1:36:41 Big fan of Neil Turok, this second watch has been over 3 hours including breaks, and added 91 podcasts to the library, if you would like to remove these observations Curt, wouldn't be an issue, I'm more than my words.
    1:45:22 really interesting roundup by Sean, again great questions Curt, peace

  • @Chumtoad_Deluxe
    @Chumtoad_Deluxe 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    This intro is amazing

  • @carlosdelvalle5417
    @carlosdelvalle5417 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    “There is no crisis in physics…”… and then the Nobel prize in Physics goes to Computer Scientists 🤔

  • @dag410
    @dag410 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I watched Hammeroff at Arizona State like 15 years ago talking about microtubules. His idea is an awesome idea. I was glad Sir Rodger Penrose hoped aboard.

    • @Littleprinceleon
      @Littleprinceleon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dag410 what progress did he (and his col) make?

    • @dag410
      @dag410 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Littleprinceleon I am not sure, maybe Penrose filled in some details, but the theory I have in my notes are almost word for word what Hameroff said a few weeks ago. At minimum the overview is the same.

  • @Penrose707
    @Penrose707 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love the direction Kurt, hello and good tidings to Dr. Carrol as well

  • @mbrochh82
    @mbrochh82 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Here's a ChatGPT summary:
    - Fundamental physics has not had any experimentally verified breakthroughs for a long time.
    - Sean Carroll argues that there is no crisis in physics, despite some professors' criticisms.
    - Carroll discusses the holographic principle, which suggests our universe can be thought of as a two-dimensional space with densely encoded quantum information.
    - Carroll and his colleagues are working on the phenomenological consequences of holography, particularly in relation to the IceCube experiment at the South Pole.
    - The holographic principle originated from black hole information theory, suggesting that the total quantum information of a black hole resides on its event horizon.
    - The ADSCFT correspondence is a form of holography that relates a D-dimensional spacetime to a D+1 dimensional spacetime.
    - Carroll believes that while ADSCFT is useful, it may not answer all quantum gravity questions, especially in non-ADS universes.
    - Carroll discusses the challenges of duality in decider space-time and CFT, noting that decider space has a finite dimensional Hilbert space.
    - Carroll argues that philosophy is essential for science, as scientists often make philosophical claims without realizing it.
    - He criticizes the lack of philosophical rigor in defining problems like the hierarchy problem in particle physics.
    - Carroll believes that physicists should engage more with philosophy to avoid making uneducated philosophical statements.
    - He discusses the relationship between physics and philosophy, emphasizing the importance of philosophical clarity in scientific problems.
    - Carroll critiques the idea that physicists should avoid philosophy, arguing that philosophical questions are integral to scientific inquiry.
    - He discusses the Large Hadron Collider's motivation, which was partly based on philosophical notions of naturalness.
    - Carroll believes that the crisis in physics is often overstated and that most physics is not fundamental physics.
    - He argues that the lack of breakthroughs in fundamental physics does not imply a crisis in the field as a whole.
    - Carroll emphasizes the importance of understanding the historical and intellectual context of current theories.
    - He discusses the importance of experimental predictions and the role of theorists in guiding experiments.
    - Carroll critiques the falsifiability criterion, arguing that the relationship between theory and data is more complex.
    - He believes that the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is a legitimate scientific theory.
    - Carroll discusses the challenges of quantum gravity and the importance of holography in understanding it.
    - He believes that quantum gravity will not come from quantizing general relativity but from more subtle approaches.
    - Carroll emphasizes the importance of keeping an open mind and supporting diverse approaches in physics.
    - He discusses the role of string theory and its contributions to understanding quantum gravity.
    - Carroll believes that the academic system should allocate resources to support minority perspectives in physics.
    - He discusses the importance of experimental predictions and the role of theorists in guiding experiments.
    - Carroll critiques the falsifiability criterion, arguing that the relationship between theory and data is more complex.
    - He believes that the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is a legitimate scientific theory.
    - Carroll discusses the challenges of quantum gravity and the importance of holography in understanding it.
    - He believes that quantum gravity will not come from quantizing general relativity but from more subtle approaches.
    - Carroll emphasizes the importance of keeping an open mind and supporting diverse approaches in physics.
    - He discusses the role of string theory and its contributions to understanding quantum gravity.
    - Carroll believes that the academic system should allocate resources to support minority perspectives in physics.
    - Main message: The perceived crisis in fundamental physics is often overstated, and while breakthroughs are slow, the field is progressing through diverse and speculative approaches, with a need for philosophical engagement and open-mindedness.

  • @jonspalding7004
    @jonspalding7004 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Regarding the 3 problems quoted, in particular "The Great Silence": I think this perceived problem is rooted fundamentally in missing peices from the training of physicists in particular but scientists in general. That is, there is too little training in humanities-related practices such as writing, speaking, and communicating. This has created generations of science and physics students who believe what they were taught in their own experience, and what they personally know and understand, is THE truth (i.e. I think, therefore We are). This comes from "Batch" style course programs where your identity is stripped away and replaced with multiple choice, state-mandated testing and short paragraph writing samples (but no real training in how to think, how to communicate what you think, and how to appreciate the existence of thoughts that are outside of you). Interviews and blogs that demonstrate real-time discourse are the solution, but only if these kinds of discourse can serve examples for real in-person discourse. This is a long way of saying thanks to @TheoriesofEverything for posting this.

  • @jordonleigh174
    @jordonleigh174 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yet another top-notch episode, Curt! Thank you, Sir!!

  • @ekkemoo
    @ekkemoo 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for your nice work! Really enjoyed the conversation!

  • @liminally-spacious
    @liminally-spacious 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Well done on this, Curt.

  • @chokog2446
    @chokog2446 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    SC is an awesome human and we are lucky to have him!

  • @Billybo121
    @Billybo121 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Finally!!! Glad you got our boy on there

  • @jwvandegronden
    @jwvandegronden 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I'm amazed by the brain of Sean Carroll. He is so concise, precise and honest, it is amazing to listen to him answering and being patient in defining correct statements, assumptions and their consequences. I love his way of thinking, but it is almost impossible to replicate, given the efforts it takes for the host to follow along.

  • @davidwright8432
    @davidwright8432 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    From earliest grade school on, we're rigorously trained to be afraid because ashamed, of making mistakes. This is, in itself, a colossal mistake. In the business world, most new companies don't make it. The same is true of radical ideas, at least til they become discarded, or, in some form, accepted. 'Nothing ventured, nothing gained'. Don't fear mistakes - learn from them!!

    • @fortissimoX
      @fortissimoX 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "From earliest grade school on, we're rigorously trained to be afraid because ashamed, of making mistakes."
      That's because we don't really have "educational" system.
      What we have is in fact system of conditioning kids to certain set of belief systems imposed on them.
      It's in fact amazing that there are so many creative people out there despite all the brainwashing we went through.
      We are brainwashed to blindly follow the authorities, be it from government, politics, religion, science etc.
      That's where that shame comes from, because thought that you are "less than" them is imposed very early.
      And for most people, it stays deep inside them during whole life.

    • @98danielray
      @98danielray 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@fortissimoXwow, such a brave vague anti-establish manifesto that we have not read 1000 times before

  • @shawnewaltonify
    @shawnewaltonify 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank-you Sean, and thank-you to all of Curt's guests, for your time.

  • @benthayermath
    @benthayermath 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I agree with Sean, in that the illegitimate favoring of some speculative theories over others is a product of individuals' game-theoretic behavior and the funding structure, not innate hatred between researchers. That was a mature response, Sean. As for Curt, I'd love to see you communicate with more physicists about how to fix this culture!

    • @_GOD_HAND_
      @_GOD_HAND_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a bullshit response. "I didn't cheat on you, babe. I was optimizing my game-theoretic outcomes vis a vis mate selection."

    • @benthayermath
      @benthayermath 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@_GOD_HAND_ ok, point taken. But the structure and sociology of academic departments does play a huge role in this, and it's not fair to all point fingers when we are all creating that culture. The only thing that disappointed me was that he didn't want to speak to that culture any further, dismissing the idea as a culture problem that he himself doesn't want to address. I think we can do better than that.

    • @_GOD_HAND_
      @_GOD_HAND_ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@benthayermath Sure, academic departments are run almost exactly like medieval feudal fiefdoms. I don't even think that's a problem necessarily, but I wish people would be honest about it instead of reciting the usual PC platitudes.

    • @benthayermath
      @benthayermath 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@_GOD_HAND_ that's completely fair, I don't disagree. Confession is the road to healing

    • @98danielray
      @98danielray 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@_GOD_HAND_and that is exactly what he mentioned, smoothbrain

  • @danielvarga_p
    @danielvarga_p 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you Curt I do not sit through too many of the long conversations from your channel.
    But if one you should do is with Sean Carroll.

  • @MrBrukmann
    @MrBrukmann 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Ty to both of you.

  • @psybertao
    @psybertao 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm just an amateur, but understand enough of the content to follow along...this is the most insightful, stimulating, passionate, comprehensive, information dense discussion I've listened to...ever.

  • @syiunshi
    @syiunshi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    5:51 I am not a simple harmonic oscillator
    Nope, you're a complex harmonic oscillator

    • @bobbymcgeorge
      @bobbymcgeorge 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Sean Carroll is a simple harmonic oscillator in the Z direction when he walks or runs

    • @FurBurger151
      @FurBurger151 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're just living in a simulation and instead of polygons like in the ether our reality is assembled with atoms.

    • @FurBurger151
      @FurBurger151 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Lol removed my comment. Classic

    • @Mmmmkaaay
      @Mmmmkaaay 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@FurBurger151So annoying. TH-cam kills all of my best one-liners.

    • @FurBurger151
      @FurBurger151 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Mmmmkaaay Yeah man sux

  • @maitlandbowen5969
    @maitlandbowen5969 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    A superb podcast. Lots of hard questions asked. Lots of gain from the whole and extensions thereof. These areas (& more) have been my passion my whole life. Thank you. 🍂🍃🌈

  • @alex79suited
    @alex79suited 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Great video, great guest thank you very much. Peace ✌️ 😎

  • @trebledog
    @trebledog หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's always a joy to listen to someone astute in several levels of physics and philosophy as Sean Carroll.

  • @patrickperrino8634
    @patrickperrino8634 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thanks!

  • @Floxflow
    @Floxflow 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very good conversation. Thanks.

  • @hriday950
    @hriday950 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Carroll's a real baller yo

  • @SY-yg3ws
    @SY-yg3ws 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great discussion Curt and Sean, Thank you. Have subscribed to your mailing list and to Mindscape.

    • @TheoriesofEverything
      @TheoriesofEverything  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Welcome! Hopefully you enjoy some of the other podcasts on the channel as well (such as th-cam.com/play/PLZ7ikzmc6zlN6E8KrxcYCWQIHg2tfkqvR.html). - Curt

  • @bobbymcgeorge
    @bobbymcgeorge 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    5:58 "I AM NOT A SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR" - Oh yes you are!

    • @radscorpion8
      @radscorpion8 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      put that on a birthday card!!!

  • @sheerun
    @sheerun 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I love your way of thinking Sean, watched and I think mostly understood your physics TH-cam General Relativity and Standard Model series, most interesting, thank you ❤

  • @JohnBaskette
    @JohnBaskette 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great interview!

  • @johndoyle2347
    @johndoyle2347 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Split-complex numbers relate to the diagonality (like how it's expressed on Anakin's lightsaber) of ring/cylindrical singularities and to why the 6 corner/cusp singularities in dark matter must alternate.
    Dual numbers relate to Euler's Identity, where the thin mass is cancelling most of the attractive and repulsive forces. The imaginary number is mass in stable particles of any conformation. In Big Bounce physics, dual numbers relate to how the attractive and repulsive forces work together to turn the matter that we normally think of into dark matter.
    Complex numbers = vertical asymptote. Split-complex numbers = vertical tangent. Dual numbers = vertical line. These algebras can be simply thought of as tensors. Delanges sectrices can be thought of as opposites of vertical asymptotes. Ceva sectrices as opposites of vertical tangents, and Maclaurin sectrices as opposites of vertical lines.
    The natural logarithm of the imaginary number is pi divided by 2 radians times i. This means that, at whatever point of stable matter other than at a singularity, the attractive or repulsive force being emitted is perpendicular to the "plane" of mass.
    In Big Bounce physics, this corresponds to how particles "crystalize" into stacks where a central particle is greatly pressured to degenerate by another particle that is in front, another behind, another to the left, another to the right, another on top, and another below. Dark matter is formed quickly afterwards.
    Ramanujan Infinite Sum (of the natural numbers): during a Big Crunch, the smaller, central black holes, not the dominating black holes, are about a twelfth of the total mass involved. Dark matter has its singularities pressed into existence, while baryonic matter is formed by its singularities. This also relates to 12 stacked surrounding universes that are similar to our own "observable universe" - an infinite number of stacked universes that bleed into each other and maintain an equilibrium of Big Bounce events.
    i to the i power: the "Big Bang mass", somewhat reminiscent of Swiss cheese, has dark matter flaking off, exerting a spin that mostly cancels out, leaving potential energy, and necessarily in a tangential fashion. This is closely related to what the natural logarithm of the imaginary number represents.
    The cubic root of i deals with the ring/cylinder/horn singularities of black holes breaking down during a Big Crunch. Credit to Stand-up Maths, Mr. Matt Parker, over on TH-cam. This math also deals with the metastable nature of dark matter singularities during a Big Bang. One impacted paired corner/cusp/naked singularity being stabilized by the other two paired ones - the square root of (3 x 5 x 5).
    Mediants are important to understanding the Big Crunch side of a Big Bounce event. Black holes have locked up, with these "particles" surrounding and pressuring each other. Black holes get flattened into unstable conformations that can be considered fractions, to form the dark matter known from our Inflationary Epoch. Sectrices are inversely related, as they deal with dark matter being broken up, not added like the implosive, flattened "black hole shrapnel" of mediants.
    Ford circles relate to mediants. Tangential circles, tethered to a line.
    Sectrices: the families of curves deal with black holes and dark matter. (The Fibonacci spiral deals with how dark matter is degenerated/broken up, with supernovae, and forming black holes. The Golden spiral deals with black holes being flattened into dark matter during a Big Bounce event.) The Archimedean spiral deals with black holes and their spins before and after a reshuffling from cubic to the most dense arrangement, during a Big Crunch. The Dinostratus quadratrix deals with the dark matter being broken up by ripples of energy imparted by outer (of the central mass) black holes, allowing the dark matter to unstack, and the laminar flow of dark matter (the Inflationary Epoch) and dark matter itself being broken up by lingering black holes.
    Delanges sectrices (family of curves): dark matter has its "bubbles" force a rapid flaking off - the main driving force of the Big Bang.
    Ceva sectrices (family of curves): spun up dark matter breaks into primordial black holes and smaller, galactic-sized dark matter and other, typically thought of matter.
    Maclaurin sectrices (family of curves): dark matter gets slowed down, unstable, and broken up by black holes.
    Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing". Little wing = Maclaurin sectrix. Butterflies = Ceva sectrix. Zebras = Dinostratus quadratrix. Moonbeams = Delanges sectrix. Jimi was experienced and "tricky".
    Jimi was commenting on dark matter. How it could be destabilized by being slowed down, spun up, broken up by lingering black holes, or flaked off. (The Delanges trisectrix also corresponds to stable atomic nuclei.)
    Dark matter, on the stellar scale, are broken up by supernovae. Our solar system was seeded with the heavier elements from a supernova.
    I'm happily surprised to figure out sectrices. Trisectrices are another thing. More complex (algebras) and I don't know if I have all the curves available to use in analyzing them. I have made some progress, but have more to discern. I can see Fibonacci spirals relating to the trisectrices.
    The Clausen function of order 2: black holes and rarified singularities are becoming more and more commonplace.
    Doyle's constant for the potential energy of a Big Bounce event: 21.892876
    Also known as e to the (e + 1/e) power.
    At the eth root of e, the black holes are stacked as densely as possible. I suspect Ramanujan's Infinite Sum connects a reshuffling from the solution to the Basel problem and a transfer of mass to centralized black holes. Other than the relatively small amount of kinetic energy of black holes being flattened into dark matter, the only energy is potential energy, then: 1 (squared)/(e to the e power), dark matter singularities have formed and thus with the help of Ramanujan, again, create "bubbles", leading to the Big Bang part of the Big Bounce event.
    My constant is the chronological ratio of these events. This ratio applies to potential energy over kinetic energy just before a Big Bang event.
    Methods of arbitrary angle trisection: Neusis construction relates to how dark matter has its corner/cusp singularities create "bubbles", driving a Big Bang event. Repetitious bisection relates to dark matter spinning so violently that it breaks, leaving smaller dark matter, primordial black holes, and other more familiar matter, and to how black holes can orbit other black holes and then merge. It also relates to how dark matter can be slowed down. Belows method (similar to Sylvester's Link Fan) relates to black holes being locked up in a cubic arrangement just before a positional jostling fitting with Ramanujan's Infinite Sum.
    General relativity: 8 shapes, as dictated by the equation? 4 general shapes, but with a variation of membranous or a filament? Dark matter mostly flat, with its 6 alternating corner/cusp edge singularities. Neutrons like if a balloon had two ends, for blowing it up. Protons with aligned singularities, and electrons with just a lone cylindrical singularity?
    Prime numbers in polar coordinates: note the missing arms and the missing radials. Matter spiraling in, degenerating? Matter radiating out - the laminar flow of dark matter in an Inflationary Epoch? Corner/cusp and ring/cylinder types of singularities. Connection to Big Bounce theory?
    "Operation -- Annihilate!", from the first season of the original Star Trek: was that all about dark matter and the cosmic microwave background radiation? Anakin Skywalker connection?

  • @benellison5668
    @benellison5668 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Guy has a radio voice

    • @ahcapella
      @ahcapella 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hear it more as a curious amalgam of a radio announcer and Kermit the frog.

  • @ShaifBasier
    @ShaifBasier หลายเดือนก่อน

    Appreciate this dialogue Curt. Good to explore the friction points and their edges. While not solving stuff, it helps formulate and disseminate the challenge to old and young eager minds.

  • @kadourimdou43
    @kadourimdou43 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great discussion. 👍

  • @Penrose707
    @Penrose707 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Love to see Dr. Carroll's bass in the background :)

  • @neildaniels5443
    @neildaniels5443 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Obviously something is wrong because we seem to have hit a Dark matter wall.......do we have the means to test and measure all the Theoretical ideas from were we are (on Earth) do we need to leave the comfort of our planet to really move forward......btw Kurt , you are constantly breaking barriers for this community, Thankyou!

    • @shawns0762
      @shawns0762 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The fundamental phenomenon of dilation explains galaxy rotation curves. Mass that is dilated is smeared through spacetime relative to an outside observer. It's the phenomenon behind the phrase "mass becomes infinite at the speed of light". A graph illustrates its squared nature, dilation increases at an exponential rate the closer you get to the speed of light. A time dilation graph illustrates the same phenomenon, it's not just time that gets dilated.
      Dilation will occur wherever there is an astronomical quantity of mass because high mass means high momentum. This includes the centers of very high mass stars and the overwhelming majority of galaxy centers.
      The mass at the center of our own galaxy is dilated. This means that there is no valid XYZ coordinate we can attribute to it, you can't point your finger at something that is smeared through spacetime. In other words, that mass is all around us. In other words, common spiral galaxies are centerless.
      Dilation does not occur in galaxies with low mass centers because they do not have enough mass to achieve relativistic velocities. It has been confirmed in 6 very low mass galaxies including NGC 1052-DF2 and DF4 to have no dark matter, in other words they have normal rotation rates. All planets and all binary stars have normal rotation rates for the same reason.

  • @rckindkitty
    @rckindkitty 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great interview, gentlemen! I enjoyed it.

  • @Will_Schrank
    @Will_Schrank 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Fantastic discussion.

  • @OlleMattsson
    @OlleMattsson 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Excellent! Another wake-n-bake with TOE 🙂

  • @joshuam4993
    @joshuam4993 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    It took me learning and working with a high ranking dude in aerospace projects briefly to realize how deeply held back and flawed contemporary physics was. The next revolution has already happened behind closed doors. But I'll share what I think it will be :
    - the primacy of the quantum vacuum (subway quantum) in EVERYTHING. As both source of energy and information.
    -a better understanding of gravity
    -the primacy of the electro dynamic nature of the body
    -the inherent interconnection between everything. Both at the planetary level and cosmic level and all it's mechanisms
    -how consciousness relates to all of the above and why and how intuition works.
    -a Bohmain type idea of holographic universe. Layered
    It is also interesting he frequently referred to de sitter and anti desitter spaces as real things, and that entities often used them...take that for whatever that may mean to you

    • @princesizwe2952
      @princesizwe2952 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I have all those figured out, I have unveiled the thread that connects numbers, do we can account for the evolution of numbers to physics. The is called SWT theory and it gives the most symmetrical theory of gravity, EMF, blackhole. I am looking for a journal that accept autodidact paper. Amongst the papers I will submit is the proof of existence outside our minds.

  • @scottspoerry2761
    @scottspoerry2761 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This may well have been the best discussion with Sean Carroll that I have ever seen or heard. I am going to watch it again in the next few days...after I have time to think about it more.

  • @Itsgone99
    @Itsgone99 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    "we're a projection of 2d" this is a conclusion borne from simply having nothing but a 2d sheet of paper to work with for so many generations...

    • @warlock64c
      @warlock64c 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@Itsgone99 the more I think about the holographic principle, the less I'm able to accept it to be true. Not only can I personally see, experience, and act in 3 dimensions, but we have common technology that would be impossible without 3D. Either I'm missing one giant detail, or this holographic stuff is crap. Plus I don't really much care for how this guy handles criticism. I don't need a better theory to know that yours is wrong.

    • @bigboicreme
      @bigboicreme 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Once you grasp field theory you will understand ​@@warlock64c

  • @888mabraham
    @888mabraham 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wonderful connection to undergrad Gen Ed curriculum and scientific thought process later on in Carroll's work. I am not a physics PhD. But l love this discussion. Especially related to cosmology, string theory and quantum gravity. It is a great privilege to listen to Sean Carroll and physicsts like him. Thank you😊

  • @yanwain9454
    @yanwain9454 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    the funny part is watching people who have no idea how any of this high level math and physics stuff works, yet have a very strong opinion on who is right or wrong based on political bias.

    • @sacr3
      @sacr3 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And? People can't have views or thoughts on these topics without first having a lifelong career working these fields?
      So you can't have an opinion on the president without first being a president?
      Who cares if People discuss, let them, that's how they figure shit out with time.

    • @ycart_tech6726
      @ycart_tech6726 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am one of those people. My math and physics just isn't up to par, yet. Probably never will be. I have only managed to teach myself enough to help me realise that, at the end of the day, Einstein's math and physics wasn't good enough... and the next Einstein's math and physics, a thousand years from now, or a million, still probably won't be good enough...not if they are a human being like I am with a brain like mine, connected neuraly to a physical human body, like mine... I don't think that any quantum physicists math or physics will EVER be good enough... I mean... from what point on can you stop distinguishing between a pageful of math formulas, and a page filled with an artist's doodles? One is supposed to be precise, down to the literal 'tee'(t?), the other is supposed to be abstract artistic expression... Just how the heck can you describe all that weirdness going on at the subatomic level with math, when I can't even come up with a good way to visualize it through art??? Are you that much smarter than me?

    • @yanwain9454
      @yanwain9454 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sacr3 well the president is something that we get to experience hands on. math and physics can be experienced hands on as well, but the people i'm referring to are skipping the education part and jumping to a conclusion based on who they think the physicist votes for. that's not an intelligent way to form an opinion on a scientific subject. when you vote in a presidential election, obviously that decision is based on "political beliefs". a person's scientific opinions influencing their political beliefs seems like a a more intelligent type of decision making to me.
      let's take this topic of string theory: i don't know whether weinstein is right or whether the string theorists are right, but i can say that from my point of view, weinstein is making the more persuasive argument. i still don't have a very strong opinion on whether he is right or wrong though. on the other hand, if you go to professor dave's cesspool channel, you will find a comment section full of people who believe string theory simply because eric weinstein is a conservative. that just seems dumb to me.I wonder if they base their workouts and diets on politics too.

    • @yanwain9454
      @yanwain9454 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ycart_tech6726 but it doesn't sound like you are forming your opinions based on politics. it seems like you are actually thinking critically and being open minded and also trying to educate yourself. much more respectable.

    • @98danielray
      @98danielray 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sacr3they can. As can I call their ideas moronic

  • @michatarnowski580
    @michatarnowski580 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Excellent interview, both the guest and the host. I'm impressed both by Curt's questions and by Carroll's balanced, informed answers. He seems to be a bit of a centrist politician in the heated Physics community.

  • @setitfree78
    @setitfree78 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I don't care about the crisis in Physics. I'm still trying to understand quantum mechanics. I'm not sure I'll ever understand it.

    • @vladimirrogozhin7797
      @vladimirrogozhin7797 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Richard Feynman: _"I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."_
      Quantum mechanics is a phenomenological (parametric "effective") theory without ontological justification (ontological basification).
      Lee Smolin: "All the theories we work with, including the Standard Model of Particle Physics and General relativity, are approximate theories applicable to truncations of nature that include only a subset of the degrees of freedom in the universe. We call such an approximate theory an effective theory."
      It is necessary to "dig" deeper into matter to the most remote meaningful ontological depths of its existence as a holistic process in order to "grasp" (understand) the primordial generating structure.
      "The event of grasping the structure means understanding." (G. Gutner "Ontology of mathematical discourse")

    • @stephenanastasi748
      @stephenanastasi748 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No one understands QM. We just use it.

    • @setitfree78
      @setitfree78 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@stephenanastasi748 That blows my mind. I can't comprehend we discovered something we don't understand. Incapable of understanding maybe.

  • @PeterMillerSyd
    @PeterMillerSyd 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm a regular listener to MindScape, and this conversation was really illuminating

    • @TheoriesofEverything
      @TheoriesofEverything  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Welcome, Peter. Hopefully you enjoy some of the other podcasts on the channel as well. - Curt

  • @robotaholic
    @robotaholic 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    We don't like the arrogance of Brian Greene and Neil Degrasse Tyson.

  • @Ninjabob568
    @Ninjabob568 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I'm very happy that you made some of Eric's comments forefront in this discussion because I think they align more than differ on some important things.

  • @shanep2879
    @shanep2879 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    17 min and counting. I’ll mow now.

  • @MrMiaowi
    @MrMiaowi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You're a superb interviewer! Subscribed

    • @TheoriesofEverything
      @TheoriesofEverything  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Welcome! Hopefully you enjoy some of the other podcasts on the channel as well. - Curt

  • @Greg-xi8yx
    @Greg-xi8yx 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Sean Carroll should absolutely be the mouthpiece for science to a popular audience rather than DeGrAsshole Tyson. Humble rather than cocky, actually keeps up with and understands modern physics, has a genuine passion rather than out for self notoriety. I’ve known about Carrol for about 17 years but really followed him closely after he destroyed Christian apologist William Lane Craig in their debate. A true gentleman and scholar.

    • @TheMikesylv
      @TheMikesylv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Greg-xi8yx yea well , he doesn’t have time for nutty quirky ideas he’s busy with other universes and there physical laws.

    • @Zr0Bites
      @Zr0Bites 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Do you find him humble? LOL

    • @MarvinMonroe
      @MarvinMonroe 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Zr0BitesHumble as opposed to not a blowhard I suppose

  • @droptableaccount1820
    @droptableaccount1820 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    There have and it's classified.

  • @robertferraro236
    @robertferraro236 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    At the basis of physics is the most basic of rookie mistakes which you would not believe until or unless you were shown. This foundational mistake is why physics is at the point of crisis you speak about. But, it goes way beyond a crisis. It means all of physics is 1. Outrightly and absolutely wrong, or at best 2. Physics that can only be classified as 'approximate'. It is indeed a little of both, depending upon the specific area pf physics. This 'rookie mistake' caused physicists to overlook the true nature of reality and its fundamental physics all quantified by a remarkable Grand Constant that quantifies all aspects of reality and its physics, including the nature and mechanism of this phenomenon we call 'gravity'. I am in the process of putting together the story that is the truth of the physics of reality.
    Sean is a fantastic speaker and writer. While this creates an impression of authority for listeners and readers, it does not make him correct. This physics he, and all other physicists speak about does not exist. I know that is a huge claim, but I will prove it.

    • @starxcrossed
      @starxcrossed 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I believe you and agree with this assessment

    • @alancham4
      @alancham4 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Are you a good crackpot or a bad crackpot?

  • @williamjmccartan8879
    @williamjmccartan8879 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This is the 1500th podcast I've saved in my library, and it was very good, thank you, peace

  • @publiusrunesteffensen5276
    @publiusrunesteffensen5276 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Two hours. Sean Carroll obviously enjoys to being interviewed by Curt Jaimungal. I really enjoyed listening to this conversation.

    • @sigil777music
      @sigil777music 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Did you watch the same interview I did?

  • @Bankaichi
    @Bankaichi 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I can’t wait to hear the first track recorded by “I Am Not A Simple Harmonic Oscillator” ❤

  • @gnostic1955
    @gnostic1955 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Problem with Sean and other materialists like him is, they can’t understand or accept that mankind in essence is not a “ thing” that time, space and certainly reality are not “out there”. Existence is fundamentally mental. It would be the best if science people like Sean would start going to church again.

    • @amihartz
      @amihartz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      You know, I was raised a Christian and went to church all of my youth, and my various pastors never told us that mankind is not a thing in time and space and that there is no reality "out there," nor did they even tell me existence is fundamentally mental. What kind of church do you go to? lol

    • @98danielray
      @98danielray 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@amihartztheyre just post hoc justifying their beliefs

  • @MrPageyjim
    @MrPageyjim 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sean left Caltech years ago so I would suggest updating your description.