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  • "Quantum Worlds & the Emergence of Spacetime"
    Caltech research professor, theoretical physicist, accomplished author & podcaster Sean Carroll will talk quantum physics and the validity of the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics by discussing some of the themes in in his new book, “Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime”.
    Before jumping into the MWI, Sean Carroll provides an approachable introduction to quantum physics. He discusses the history of the field, notable theories and their limitations, what questions remain unanswered and what the world may look like if the MWI is proven true.
    More information about Sean, his research, publications, or other projects can be found at his website: www.preposterousuniverse.com/
    Get thew book here: goo.gle/2mkQ89e

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  • @hifibrony
    @hifibrony 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    One of my favorite thinkers in the world. Few people of such vast intelligence are able to explain very abstract things so lucidly and understandably.

    • @BradWatsonMiami
      @BradWatsonMiami 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sean Carroll - militant atheist - wants to teach everyone about the meaning of life. "It's all random, chance, and coincidental."
      See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 was added to Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.

    • @hifibrony
      @hifibrony 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@BradWatsonMiami Religion, ALL religion is self-deluding nonsense. And you need to go live where the nuts hunt the squirrels.

  • @dragonsdraughts8382
    @dragonsdraughts8382 4 ปีที่แล้ว +291

    One of physics best speakers these days. So clear and direct. More people need to be exposed to these types of topics and Sean Carroll provides a great place for minds of all intellect to join in and learn more about the world around us.

    • @minimead368
      @minimead368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Slipperyfish it’s the fact he knows what to say. There’s no umm’s or pauses while he tries to remember his lines. I like that, it just flows into your memory and stays there.

    • @boughtinerror
      @boughtinerror 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@minimead368 ive never seen him pause to think in any video. Its just a constant stream of info

    • @KaiHenningsen
      @KaiHenningsen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@boughtinerror He clearly knows his stuff, ok, plus he talks about this stuff all the time, ok, so a lot of that is pretty much routine, ok?

    • @Devilogic
      @Devilogic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@minimead368 53:26

    • @minimead368
      @minimead368 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Matjaz Drinks Water lol the brain only hears what it wants to hear, I’ll listen harder in future lol

  • @T.Dimitrov
    @T.Dimitrov 4 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    People like Sean Carroll made me interested in Quantun Mechanics. The way he explain everything makes you love all the stuff about physics. His books are great and everytime i re-read them i learn something new.

    • @iandoyle5017
      @iandoyle5017 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      slow learner?

    • @ahmedalani3513
      @ahmedalani3513 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @UCUZMI2O8DllphiwEcqk6Asw I’m guessing your trying to predict how he thinks, well your prediction sucks and you sound dumb

  • @Andrew-tu5fm
    @Andrew-tu5fm 4 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Carroll brings to the masses an understanding of QM that allows you, the non-physicist, (but perhaps a philosopher) to better think about reality from the micro- to the macro-realm and that Emergence is the operative term. Emergence addresses the transition from the fundamentals up to and including spacetime. Carroll is a master communicator whether you accept what is rather easily understood from hearing or reading from him or not.

    • @MrEiht
      @MrEiht 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Via hahaha epic!

  • @spaceman081447
    @spaceman081447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sean Carroll provides the best explanation of quantum mechanics that I have seen to date. He gives a quantum mechanical explanation of curved space-time and vacuum energy. He idea of not attempting to quantize gravity but rather to start with the Schrödinger equation and deriving quantum gravity is unique, as far as I know. I especially like the fact that he's a devotee of Hugh Everett's Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. I'm a member of a book club that will be reading his book "Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime."

  • @rc5989
    @rc5989 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Sean Carroll is my favorite living physicist, ainec. I can not wait to get my copy of his latest book ‘Something Deeply Hidden’!
    From my view on the sideline as an amateur philosopher of science, I believe Professor Carroll is near the goal line, and will make it into the endzone. What a great day it will be to finally spike that quantum football!

  • @bl8896
    @bl8896 4 ปีที่แล้ว +441

    Sean Carroll's hair is in superposition between clean cut and wild theoretical physicist

    • @JoeLeonardo
      @JoeLeonardo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I legit laughed out loud from this. Great fucking joke!

    • @lancehaley9417
      @lancehaley9417 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      The lock of hair flipped over his ear is a classic wave function - otherwise known as the Schrodinger hairdoo.

    • @geofromnj7377
      @geofromnj7377 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I think he is both letting his hair grow and dyeing it. IMO, he should cease doing both.

    • @iandoyle5017
      @iandoyle5017 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@JoeLeonardo No, its a very limited example of a joke with an even greater minority of people to appreciate its vague and vacuous application of comedy.

    • @acr08807
      @acr08807 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      If it's vacuous, how can it be vague?

  • @doronron7323
    @doronron7323 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    14 minutes in and my admiration for this guy has increased dramatically. Why haven't I seen this before. It strikes me as the most honest and articulate description of the subject (for the average guy) I've come across. Show this to your physics class.

  • @charlesbrowne9590
    @charlesbrowne9590 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    At night I’m half awake and at day I’m half asleep. Superposition!

    • @lousimms4766
      @lousimms4766 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      this is literally my life - HELP

    • @iandoyle5017
      @iandoyle5017 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Naa you just don't sleep well.

    • @jge123
      @jge123 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Superposition would be fully awake and fully asleep at the same time, a bit like we all are in this non existent illusion we call reality.

    • @salvatoremarino8293
      @salvatoremarino8293 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      60% of the population lives like that....and is not a joke !

  • @letsif
    @letsif 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    To hell with emergent gravity. The encased microphone in a foam cube is the most brilliant thing I have seen in a long time.

    • @lungflogger9
      @lungflogger9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      reduce that to just the foam cube.....drop the mic!!!!

    • @iandoyle5017
      @iandoyle5017 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What was your previous encounter with brilliance?

  • @joshfredr7846
    @joshfredr7846 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Brian Greene and Sean Carroll are the best physics lecturers I have ever listened to.

    • @BradWatsonMiami
      @BradWatsonMiami 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Brian Greene and Sean Carroll - militant atheists - wants to teach everyone about the meaning of life. "It's all random, chance, and coincidental."
      See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 was added to Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.

  • @sekoivu
    @sekoivu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Hugh Everett even visited Copenhagen in order to meet with Niels Bohr, the "father" of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. The visit was a disaster! Everett's idea that the universe is describable in objectively existing universal wave function (which does not "collapse") was simply a heresy to Bohr and the others at Copenhagen. The conceptual gulf between their positions was too wide to allow any consensus. Léon Rosenfeld, one of Bohr's devotees, even described Everett as "undescribably [...] stupid [who] could not understand the simplest things in quantum mechanics". Everett later described this experience as "hell...doomed from the beginning."

  • @KrisPucci
    @KrisPucci 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I absolutely love Sean Carroll. He can explain very difficult concepts in laymen's terms which is very difficult.

  • @xlr555usa
    @xlr555usa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This talk explains the anomolies in the double slit experiment in the clearest terms yet. Great talk.

  • @Syzygy-21cm
    @Syzygy-21cm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Very much liked the final section where Sean suggests an approach which brings together entanglement, quantum field theory and gravity. I'm really looking forward to theoretical and practical developments with this idea.

  • @user-cn4qb7nr2m
    @user-cn4qb7nr2m 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Amazing! This is the best explanation of a concept! He always repeated the same sentences in different talks, but only now I finally got it! Over time he perfected the way to explain it to other people!

    • @TeodorAngelov
      @TeodorAngelov 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      He took the time this time.

  • @ThalesF75
    @ThalesF75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    This guy's the best. Loving the videos and loving the book, whose every chapter I have to read at least twicel

    • @BradWatsonMiami
      @BradWatsonMiami 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sean Carroll - militant atheist - wants to teach everyone about the meaning of life. "It's all random, chance, and coincidental."
      See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 was added to Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.

  • @johnfromleeds
    @johnfromleeds 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Excellent presentation. I've always thought the "many worlds" interpretation was a cop out but Sean's explanation here has opened my mind to this. Just bought his book. Also, I always felt that Einstein was right when he said that QT's Copenhagen interpretation cannot be a true desription of reality. That whole particle / wave duopoly message and "just accept that's the way it is" always seemed daft to me but I've just assumed that these physicists know what they are talking about so who am I to judge?

    • @NashvilleTNgirl
      @NashvilleTNgirl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Try reading The Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark (MIT) on the multiverse

    • @gotnoshoes22
      @gotnoshoes22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Many worlds is by far the most logical explanation.

  • @BloobleBonker
    @BloobleBonker 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The first half was an exceptionally good summary of the eave-particle dilemma. Really enjoyed that.

  • @hemalbhatt3989
    @hemalbhatt3989 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sean is a Real Revolution, an observer with unmatched potential and traits, a teacher beyond ordinary human potential who justifies his teaching traits with exact knowledge or research work original to himself after testing it thoroughly and above all he is open to feedbacks to rectify errors as well as stay humble with appreciations.
    He just Rocks Physical science.
    Thank you Sean ! for all your research in scientific domain.
    Lots of appreciation for your originality.
    Hemal Bhatt

  • @mindofmayhem.
    @mindofmayhem. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    A Higgs Boson walks into a church and the priest runs up and says "Thank God you're here, We just couldn't have mass without you".

    • @curtcoller3632
      @curtcoller3632 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I like that!!!!

    • @mindofmayhem.
      @mindofmayhem. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@cjheeley The Higgs boson is the visible manifestation of the Higgs field. : )

    • @kuroryudairyu4567
      @kuroryudairyu4567 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Beautiful!!!!!!

    • @catcat1080
      @catcat1080 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That's why it's called the God's particle 😂

  • @paulmichaelfreedman8334
    @paulmichaelfreedman8334 4 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    As soon as I see a new lecture from Sean , I immediately click.

    • @Bisquick
      @Bisquick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      In other worlds however, the click is slightly delayed

    • @justkoolin
      @justkoolin 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, and some day we'll figure out what he's talking about.

    • @The22on
      @The22on 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      When there's a new Sean lecture, my mind says YOU'VE GOT MAIL!
      Then Meg Ryan comes into my room.

    • @sethpigg4468
      @sethpigg4468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What do y'all think will happen if we have an AI observe waves, would they turn into parties?

    • @artdonovandesign
      @artdonovandesign 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me, too!

  • @mediumaevum
    @mediumaevum 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I really liked this talk. Several times I thought "Of Course!" - the idea of having only the Universal Wavefunction and deriving from that the rest of the world, including gravity, is such a beautifully simple/elegant theory. Thank you!

  • @canuckcorsa
    @canuckcorsa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The very best video I have seen on this topic. I'm merely a "shade tree" scientist these days (ex-electrical engineer) but this makes(mostly!) a lot of sense. I was fortunate in that I had many great profs but very few were communicators of this caliber.

  • @The22on
    @The22on 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Wow.
    Once again, Sean finishes a lecture and all I can say is wow. What a great explainer. He makes the subject so simple that even a being made of quantum fields can understand it!
    As an engineer, I'm used to thinking of classical mechanics: balls rolling down hills and trains going different speeds. But now, quantum physics says, "Forget classical mechanics. Don't picture balls, trains, particles, bullets, atoms.They went out with Newton (and way back to Aristotle). Think of FIELDS... ripples on a pond. Forget the stone that caused the ripples. Just look at the waves in the water."
    So now I think of the world like trillions of ripples. You and I give off ripples in space and time. The Earth gives out lots more ripples. The reason I stick to the Earth is not because a force is pulling me down, but because the Earth gives off many ripples (waves) than I do and they distort space. That distortion is what we call gravity (which we can't see happening!).
    Anyway, I'm picturing the universe differently now. I don't see particles... I see waves aka ripples. Extrapolating, where enough waves meet at a given point, they act like a solid particle. But the wave came before the particle. How am I doing, Sean?

    • @elizabethwinsor5140
      @elizabethwinsor5140 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now think of waves as vibrations then resonances....

  • @koroglurustem1722
    @koroglurustem1722 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Wow, he is such a communicator ! Respects !

    • @BradWatsonMiami
      @BradWatsonMiami 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sean Carroll - militant atheist - wants to teach everyone about the meaning of life. "It's all random, chance, and coincidental."
      See 7seals.blogspot.com - only the returned Christ & Albert Einstein reincarnated could produce that. It's triggered The Apocalypse/Revelation which is NOT the 'end of the world'. COVID-19 was added to Seal #4: S=19 (18.6) Theory.

  • @HidekazuOki
    @HidekazuOki 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely fascinating talk! Thanks for sharing!

  • @dr.satishsharma9794
    @dr.satishsharma9794 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    'Something deeply hidden'....is excellent attempt towards closer to reality (Truth)... presentation by Dr Sean Carroll is really beautiful.... thanks 🙏

  • @vicfitz82
    @vicfitz82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Working through the book. I find it understandable but maybe I’m biting off too-large chunks too infrequently. This lecture helped me refresh and reprocess. And for the love of cats, don’t read the comments on this video.

  • @Radnally
    @Radnally 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Gary shandling knows a lot about physics!

  • @DanielFoland
    @DanielFoland 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing talk.
    Again.
    How is this man so consistently mind-blowingly well-articulated?
    _...what am I doing with my life?_

  • @miraculixxs
    @miraculixxs 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this talk. It's great you show the speaker 99% of the time because we would totally not know what he looks like otherwise. On the oth we can always get access to his slides easily and there is nothing special about one slide from the other. I just love watching a speaker speak.

  • @abhishekshah11
    @abhishekshah11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    Sean is a great explainer. Loved the entire talk!

  • @jonathonjubb6626
    @jonathonjubb6626 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I like this. I remember watching Krause years ago and being impressed and I got the same feeling now.
    Might get the book (from the library)....

    • @WitzyZed
      @WitzyZed 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jonathon Jubb having fun isn’t hard, if you’ve got a library card

    • @DrPommels
      @DrPommels 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      buy it! you will not be sorry and it will still be a good read the 10th time....

  • @vMaxHeadroom
    @vMaxHeadroom 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a brilliant mind...so open and accessible...

  • @ottofrank3445
    @ottofrank3445 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This was awesome thank you so much for this great presentation

  • @takefivepaullucido
    @takefivepaullucido 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Sean Carroll is clearly one of the greatest modern day physicist and ambassadors of quantum theory of all time!

  • @plato2030
    @plato2030 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is million time better than sci fi movie. Nobody can write a wired intresting and spooky story line like this

  • @alinab.4568
    @alinab.4568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is so mindblowing that it's crazy but also crazy reality!

  • @djschultz1970
    @djschultz1970 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sean is a true genius of our day and a very good communicator. You have to listen, even if you disagree. I find it very hard to disagree with Sean.

  • @AThagoras
    @AThagoras 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As far as I'm concerned, Everett was right. Universes are made of particles, reality consists of multiple universes and the wave equation tells you how universes are related to each other over time. When you make a measurement, you get some information about which universe you are in. In other universes, other copies of you will make different measurements and learn something about which universe they are in.
    Did I misunderstand anything?

    • @secularmonk5176
      @secularmonk5176 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Spot on! The true mystery is "what is consciousness?" The thing that allows us to observe our observations?

    • @TeodorAngelov
      @TeodorAngelov 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@secularmonk5176 Ahh, the hard problem

  • @EFChartley
    @EFChartley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I LOVE QUANTUM PHYSICS! Jake 7 from UK

    • @Scorch428
      @Scorch428 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Quantum Physics both loves you and hates you at the same time, Jake.

    • @EFChartley
      @EFChartley 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Scorch428 haha, brilliant!

    • @philippemartin6081
      @philippemartin6081 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello Jake I am Philippe Martin quantum Physics theory. Thank you so mutch. You are my first positive comment. I Will remember. Sincères amitiés Philippe Martin 😎

  • @steveseeger
    @steveseeger 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For a reason I haven't yet pinpointed watching this really made high level quantum computer understanding click and make sense!

  • @capreal26
    @capreal26 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What an awesome talk? Love his style...

  • @JohnICGomes
    @JohnICGomes 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    ‘That’s just too many universes! Sorry I don’t like it!‘ 😀
    Like this.... love his talk show, Mindscape, also.

    • @odiesback
      @odiesback 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      John Gomes haha that objection made think of “... too many notes.., just cut a few and it would be perfect” from the Emperor in Amadeus!

    • @espaciohexadimencionalsern3668
      @espaciohexadimencionalsern3668 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I DO.

  • @A.Santos1
    @A.Santos1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Ohm are in a car
    They get pulled over. Heisenberg is driving and the cop asks him "Do you know how fast you were going?"
    "No, but I know exactly where I am" Heisenberg replies.
    The cop says "You were doing 55 in a 35."
    Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts "Great! Now I'm lost!"
    The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says "Do you know you have a dead cat back here?"
    "We do now, asshole!" shouts Schrodinger.
    The cop moves to arrest them. Ohm resists.

    • @sharktac
      @sharktac 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Alberto Santos 👏

    • @brandonhughes645
      @brandonhughes645 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      schrödinger part got me good hahah

    • @hellergang
      @hellergang 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      the opening part of this joke is in the book. Thanks for sharing the whole thing!

  • @ElChicleSeMePego
    @ElChicleSeMePego 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Blessed to have this opportunity 🙏

  • @marcsmith8716
    @marcsmith8716 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant brilliant brilliant. So well done. Thank you.

    • @lepidoptera9337
      @lepidoptera9337 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, he brilliantly tells you total bullshit and you are eating all of it. For starters: there are no particles. That's why we call it "quantum mechanics" and not "particle mechanics". ;-)

  • @RJYounglingTricking
    @RJYounglingTricking 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Sean is always a legend but here he was in motherfucking GOD MODE! damn.. such a legit talk

    • @masonherlihy717
      @masonherlihy717 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree. Saw one of the best threads
      On light speed, gravity etc etc. the best in a long time. I’d love to
      Get Sean’s opinion; check it out...

    • @bytefu
      @bytefu 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God mode? Is that the one where you are not making any difference because you don't exist? I would argue that Sean is in way more powerful mode in this talk.

    • @MrMichaelFire
      @MrMichaelFire 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      He’s crazy smart, but has gone off the rails on this idea.....

    • @guitaristxcore
      @guitaristxcore 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrMichaelFire better let him know that...

    • @daithiocinnsealach3173
      @daithiocinnsealach3173 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@bytefu Gods represent the creative force of the universe. Whether they exist literally or not is beside the point. We can call whatever caused our universe God, without having to subscribe to religious nonsense too.

  • @BUILDINGINSP
    @BUILDINGINSP 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Quantum physics has hit a fracking brick wall.

  • @lenandov
    @lenandov 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I enjoy listening to Chef John and this guy

  • @johnk4437
    @johnk4437 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great lecture by Sean Carroll ! 10 hyper giant blue variable stars ********** Nice explanation of Everett's Many Worlds Interpretation of QM...as well as a clear discussion of the inherent fallacy of Niels Bohr's Copenhagen Interpretation of QM. Thank you.

  • @krishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    @krishhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    "What's in the box?" - Brad Pitt, 1995.

    • @heilioEcentric
      @heilioEcentric 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's a head....and it's not alive.

    • @bushfingers
      @bushfingers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      krish a 🐈

    • @Scorch428
      @Scorch428 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      As long as he doesnt open the box, his wife can still be alive? :)

    • @baldrbraa
      @baldrbraa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Electrono9 Pain. Pain is in the box.

  • @Baleur
    @Baleur 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One thing that always bugged me about the shröedingers cat thing is....
    Isnt the CAT itself an observer? Isnt the microscopic bacteria on the glass vial, observers?
    Isnt the quantum fluxing virtual particles popping in and out of existance, occasionally colliding with the transistors in the sensor that triggers the hammer, also collapsing the wave function as they interact, however minutely, with the system?
    The universe itself doesnt require a human or robot to observe a state, the universe observes itself, continually, constantly. You already touch on the fact that its not wishy-woshy conciousness that collapses the wave function. So then, why dont we consider the CAT in the equation? It itself surely knows what "state" it is in, if its dead or not. Thus, the outside measurement is irrelevant, because the wave function collapses as soon as ANY "event" takes place, as soon as the cat dies, or doesnt die, the wave function collapses. It cannot exist in two states, beacuse the cat itself is observing which of the two events occur.
    (As a more simple example, you'll stop hearing it meow, or you'll start smelling its rotting flesh)
    Also the box isnt an isolated universe, it's connected with everything outside no matter what you do, but thats the same mistake of theoretical fallacy that the thermodynamics conservation of energy makes, imagining that the universe is an isolated CLOSED system, when all observations point to the contrary (is there ANYTHING more OPEN than the universe? lol).
    I'm not saying equal and opposite reactions isnt true, im just saying we cannot say for certain that mass / energy cant be created nor destroyed in the universe, before we know if the universe IS a closed or open system. Especially when everything points to it being OPEN (even if you take the big bang theory as the universe as a "bubble" of spacetime, you still have theories of membranes interacting or wormholes forming between universes, ANY of those are breaking the "closed system" that thermodynamics assumes as fact).
    Sorry lol i went on a tangent there..

    • @lifewithAysha
      @lifewithAysha 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      interesting, but i think consciousness has different levels .

    • @BeelZeDemon
      @BeelZeDemon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Interesting point here, but it is fundamentally wrong, and this is provable through the double slit experiment.
      You're actually confusing observing with measuring and you're mistaken thinking that the wave function somehow collapses every time we happen to observe it.
      As proven during the double slit experiment, the wave function only collapses at the act of exact measurement (when photons pass through detectors,) and not during the act of observation.
      So no, the cat itself is not capable to collapse the wave function in this specific experiment, furthermore so because Schrödinger's cat
      involves the use of a quantum device that has an exact 50/50 chance to either kill the cat or not kill the cat. The cat itself does not know what is going to happen or what is going on inside the device, and the wavefunction only collapses when the device triggers and an outcome is chosen.

  • @TheIllerX
    @TheIllerX 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very clear and interesting speech. The ideas he talks about seems very natural and at the same time very mind blowing.

  • @mediawolf1
    @mediawolf1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    1. Entities in a superposition are in a superposition of well-defined states. (Spin up / down, cat awake / asleep, electron located here / there.)
    2. Entities in a superposition don't experience that they're in a superposition. (They experience that they're in a well-defined state. Because they *are*. Just more than one of them.)
    3. The states that are superimposed never interact. (The awake cat and the asleep cat are separate worlds.)
    4. Entangled entities experience each other as well-defined. (They're in one collective superposition. Measurement / observation is just entanglement.)
    5. Decoherence is when an entity is entangled with the environment. (Where everything experiences everything as well-defined.)
    The worlds of the Many Worlds concept are the individual states of the superposition.
    The apparent collapse of the wave function upon measurement is the entity becoming well-defined to us when we become entangled with it (#4). What really happened was its superposition still exists but now includes us.

    • @gotnoshoes22
      @gotnoshoes22 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      mediawolf well written 👍

  • @jigsnep
    @jigsnep 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is the version of Sean Carroll convincing us to believe the many world interpretation. I would rather watch the version of him explaining how the Copenhagen interpretation was correct, i.e. in another world.

    • @TactileTherapy
      @TactileTherapy 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      but you should. Copenhagen Interpretation is wrong

    • @bobthedemon1975
      @bobthedemon1975 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      You're in the wrong universe. The rest of us watched stephen hawking giving this talk.

    • @kanguruster
      @kanguruster 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bobthedemon1975 In another world line Donald Trump is the world's greatest quantum physicist. Does that disprove the many worlds interpretation?

  • @dougg1075
    @dougg1075 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love what he’s preaching man. Let’s get to the bottom of this, not just calculate. Rock on

  • @gotnoshoes22
    @gotnoshoes22 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It is interesting to see determinism and chance at a cross roads in many worlds. The possible paths are all set but your journey through life take turns you may influence.

  • @ronaldderooij1774
    @ronaldderooij1774 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well put. Easy to follow (for me) and I am a social scientist…. I am looking forward to 1) if it changes our view on the universe we see. 2) If there will be any way to prove it. I do love the emergent gravity that comes out of it. Susskind is on the same path, I saw in one of his videos.

  • @HotelPapa100
    @HotelPapa100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    That cat being awake or asleep model does not work for one reason: A cat has such a high probability of being asleep regardless of the mechanism being triggered, the whole model breaks down...

    • @ritcha02
      @ritcha02 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha!

    • @user-jt5ot4hy9q
      @user-jt5ot4hy9q 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah, it's hardly 50/50...more like 90/10. Unless you include hidden variables, such a string or laser pointer or, of course, if it's dinner time.

    • @user-jt5ot4hy9q
      @user-jt5ot4hy9q 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Nick Knight Beats--I bet you do.

    • @wolstencroftster
      @wolstencroftster 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The flee on its back was observing

    • @Scorch428
      @Scorch428 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What if the cat gave birth, then died to the poison? You could end up finding 1 alive cat and 1 dead!

  • @Rufeo0
    @Rufeo0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    if we where in a simulation it would make sense to save processing power that each object inside the simulation would sit idle unprocessed until an interaction happened and forced the algorithm to calculate the state of the object.

    • @buckaroo3589
      @buckaroo3589 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The simulation hypothesis is so obviously correct. Just doesn't make for a book or a career, except for theologians. Let's face it, 100 years of trying, you aren't going to unlock level 2 unless you worship the simulator, because that's what he wants. So be it. Fine then. It's not as difficult as trying to get my head around the twisted logic I'm seeing here.

    • @bpansky
      @bpansky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      that's different. You would never discover that. Thus/And that doesn't predict the specific way that the observed states are generated. Think of video games that don't show quantum behavior to us, only classical behavior. It's thus of no value in this debate, and acquires no credibility from quantum mechanics.

  • @johnnafunkhouser5999
    @johnnafunkhouser5999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Raises her hand from deep in the Heart of Texas! Love you, Sean.

  • @rkpetry
    @rkpetry 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    *_...but, everything, is measuring everything else,-so observation must be a collective, operation... even when you're not looking for yourself right-then... try catnip in your box so it's either going nuts or it's not, which is very subjective to your point-of-observation of cats..._*

  • @treyquattro
    @treyquattro 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    happy to see that Ferris Bueller turned out OK

    • @digitalderek77
      @digitalderek77 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Bueller, Bueller, Bueller....Bueller

    • @jb_
      @jb_ 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      9 times

    • @ritcha02
      @ritcha02 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Cameron

    • @squamish4244
      @squamish4244 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I was worried about him, he was so sick that day.

    • @alanpatten468
      @alanpatten468 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That made me laugh.

  • @munu9470
    @munu9470 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sean Carroll is my favourite public speaker

  • @io3213
    @io3213 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I like the question about running out of branches. I would like to speculate that as times passes, and the total amount of possible states increases, detail gets discarded because total information is finite. That's the materialist view of the entire universe. I even think most of the confusion comes from the fact that looking from our personal perspective (we are conscious parts of of this quanta), we also feel that information is finite but this time the total amount of possible states keeps decreasing while detail gets filled in. In other words our mind seems to merge repeatedly towards a more and more detailed picture, contrary to the universe which keeps branching and discarding. Then from a human, collective perspective, you hit a nice middle between the two. There seems to be a stable, renewing flow of possibilities if we don't fill our consciences with useless information.

  • @liferacer5836
    @liferacer5836 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I hope there is a universe where i understand quantum mechanics...

    • @akronymus
      @akronymus 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @ Life Racers
      ... not with lecturers like him

    • @anteconfig5391
      @anteconfig5391 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I hope there's another me in one of those universes that decides to come here and teach me..

    • @shaunhumphreys6714
      @shaunhumphreys6714 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      it isn't hard to understand. you may not understand the maths of the equations, but you can understand the principle concepts. anyone with a modest degree of intellect can do so. this is a very simplified talk on quantum mechanics, but i agree with sean carrol's position. but it is dumbed down as it's a pubic talk. but you can find even simpler explanations on youtube. one good channel is the science asylum.

  • @llamawizard
    @llamawizard 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like quantum field theory. i can appreciate and understand quantum field theory as a basis for reality. what I can't wrap my head around is how shrodinger/Everett fits into the quantum field theory. I guess they are dependent on other dimensions/many worlds, etc... but I can't understand how many worlds can be a basis for reality. I think we are missing something.

    • @espaciohexadimencionalsern3668
      @espaciohexadimencionalsern3668 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      everything is conected to everything

    • @40551385
      @40551385 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Without the many worlds element, you have perfect order at the beginning of the Big Bang and Hence you have an anti materialistic answer which doesn’t sit well with an atheist. So the only way out is to create without no direct evidence just assumptions an infinite multiverse with infinite amounts of chances at life, hence a materialistic world is still slightly possible.

  • @matthijshebly
    @matthijshebly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What 3Blue1Brown is for mathematics, Sean Carroll is for physics: the very best teacher in their field.

  • @ddorman365
    @ddorman365 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Spot on, thank you everybody, Doug:).

  • @Kreadus005
    @Kreadus005 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Huh. Gravity brings things together but may drive expansion. A quantum theory almost seems like it would be recursive / fractal. Like.. if you're far away then its uncertain if you're affecting anything and over time you become less and less relevant as the cumulative irrelevance builds up. But if you are close, you ARE relevant and it cumulatively builds up.

  • @abyssmanur3965
    @abyssmanur3965 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    No 'Imaginary' or 'Theoretical' cats were quantumly harmed or killed in the making of this video.

    • @harviej
      @harviej 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Al the other quantum cats die for this one we see before us. You can deconstruct anything into a putative dogma.

    • @abyssmanur3965
      @abyssmanur3965 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@harviej a Quantum Jesus cat!

    • @kingjeremysircornwell7847
      @kingjeremysircornwell7847 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      America is a slaughter house? I don't whence at killing animals.

    • @RobertSaulnier
      @RobertSaulnier 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There's a problem with switching poison gas with sleeping gas... Cats sleep all the time

    • @TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt
      @TasteMyStinkholeAndLikeIt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      One day the materialist / dualist fruits, nuts, and flakes will have to come fully out of the materialsexual closet and admit that Upanishad philosophy is true and consciousness is all that exists. Meanwhile, we'll just have to wait for these bumbling fools to quit chasing their tails and never solving the problem of consciousness and reality. 🤣
      I only wish I could live long enough to see these ayholes eat their horseshit.

  • @josephblumenthal1228
    @josephblumenthal1228 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for getting into what is measurement.

  • @quantumdiscoverynetwork9257
    @quantumdiscoverynetwork9257 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I LOVE Quantum Mechanics. Solving the Quantum Theory is a joint effort. Scientists then have entangled work to do!

  • @pauldacus4590
    @pauldacus4590 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    I feel like he's the narrator for a show *The Quantum Wonder Years*

    • @curtcoller3632
      @curtcoller3632 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yep - or "the Best of God Particles"

    • @harrykersey9086
      @harrykersey9086 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey Paul ! Looking good bro ! Is that your new girlfriend ? She's a dog ...

    • @usama57926
      @usama57926 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      *Can you link the show?*

    • @oscar3490
      @oscar3490 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@harrykersey9086 its a bear in his profile picture, fix your googles mate.

  • @DasKrabbe
    @DasKrabbe 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Promoting an iPhone app at Talks at Google. Ballsy.

    • @jamesstevenson7725
      @jamesstevenson7725 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I heard about that app. Whats it called?

    • @hellergang
      @hellergang 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@jamesstevenson7725 Universe Splitter $1.99

  • @abdennourabdennour2755
    @abdennourabdennour2755 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for this best lecture

  • @sanjuansteve
    @sanjuansteve 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    #WaveParticleDuality #TheoryOfEverything
    What if strings aren’t vibrating string loops, but rather particle orbit trace patterns?
    The natural first (Occam’s) assumption to explain how or why a particle like a photon (or electron, etc) might behave as an uncertain location particle while also like a polarizable axial or helical wave ''packet'', given that everything in the universe from electrons to solar systems are in orbit with something else pulling them into polarizable axial or helical apparent waves depending on the orientation of their orbits as they travel thru space, and given that we know we’re in a sea of undetectable dark matter but don’t know where it’s disbursed, is that they’re in orbit with an undetectable dark matter particle pulling them into polarizable axial or helical apparent waves as they travel where the speed of their orbit determines the wavelength and the diameter is the amplitude which would explain the double slit, uncertainty, etc. No?

    • @DrPommels
      @DrPommels 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      nobody believes they are vibrating string loops, it is just a description that allows you to grasp the concept of excitations in a field....

  • @lopezb
    @lopezb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What's the difference between Many Worlds and one world, where the others aren't actually "there". And since we only experience one...

    • @ivandan1174
      @ivandan1174 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      ... It is true: if you lock yourself into your house that you live in and live only there you wouldn't care if there are other houses... not even of acknowledging the possibility of them existing... at least just for the sake of seeking for the "real truth" and understanding that we are far smaller than we thought we are. Then you probably would ask yourself what in the world wanted those men, strange figures, who say any other things like E=mc2 or similar... your rhetorical question sounds very anti-progressive.

    • @timo4258
      @timo4258 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like to think that if there was only one world then I wouldn't be here. Because it seems highly unlikely that I would exist at all.

  • @Andrew-tu5fm
    @Andrew-tu5fm 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had to add an additional thought about Carroll's lucid explanations. As Carroll readily states, his story about QM (a version of Everett's "many worlds" or multiverse) is not shared by the majority of physicists. What is so refreshing is that you can consider the different POVs and draw your own conclusions about the nature of reality. No fake facts here, just insightful discussion. How refreshing.

    • @edoblaauw4561
      @edoblaauw4561 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There are fake facts here. Like Popper being one of the biggest fan of mwi. That’s BS. In his book he explicately denounces mwi.

  • @Hephaestus512
    @Hephaestus512 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This video was fascinating! I really like this guy!

  • @-Gorbi-
    @-Gorbi- 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    If you want someone to read a difficult book you like, say “I always get something new out of it” instead of “I’ve been working on it for years and still haven’t fully grasped it”. Quantum physicists are being self aggrandizing by stressing the difficulty

    • @DrPommels
      @DrPommels 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      but it is difficult, and pretending it isn't does not advance anything....

  • @coastwalker101
    @coastwalker101 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Good talk, he explains it well.

  • @thomchristensen990
    @thomchristensen990 ปีที่แล้ว

    A great talk and much more accessible than one would think when approaching such heady topics. Regarding the many-worlds interpretation, I do believe it to be yet another way to hide the fact that there are things we just don't know.
    Effectively, we are saying that we don't know what the state of the universe will be at time T+1. But why don't we? If each state is a function of the previous state, then the universe is deterministic. If our calculations do not correctly predict the next state, then it must be because the calculations are incorrect. Or more likely, lacking the vast number of variables that we would need to observe from the previous state.
    The issue is that we don't know the entire state of the universe at any moment and so therefore cannot predict the next. We introduce probability to add the fuzz factor that gets us to something can almost approximate the chaos quantum mechanics.

  • @miashay2524
    @miashay2524 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sean is our National Treasure

  • @poobum9857
    @poobum9857 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    a little like Gary Shandling !!

  • @williamregister7720
    @williamregister7720 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I just figured out that the cat in the box is an observer and measures itself as awake of asleep.

    • @anitatromp6295
      @anitatromp6295 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I choose to believe he knew that and he never risked an innocent kietsie cat's life.

    • @notwhatiwasraised2b
      @notwhatiwasraised2b 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      wouldn't the cat have to imagine an observer?

    • @trevorb7645
      @trevorb7645 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Lavalambtron is that to say the cat doesnt exist until you see it?

  • @NotThatLittleJohnny
    @NotThatLittleJohnny 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for this video. It's a winner.

  • @jacyong
    @jacyong 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    All in all, enjoy life as it is. You'll never know what will happen in the future as you are never going to know which path split of life you'll take. Just embrace yourself as the quantum observer of the specific quantum state where your life is pathing on, and let go regretting deeply on past mistakes because you're just experiencing one of the multiple quantum states of your life.

  • @kirillazarov6865
    @kirillazarov6865 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    His hair is starting to resemble Feynman's.

    • @lacyhart2043
      @lacyhart2043 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I like young Feynman he's so cool.

    • @thekhansha
      @thekhansha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Perhaps their genius is Entangled. Hopefully it is - for our sake.

  • @FighterFred
    @FighterFred 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    If Sean is correct about entanglement, I guess everything in the universe is coupled regardless of spacetime. The obvious question then is why the universe exists at all.

    • @remcob8892
      @remcob8892 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Entanglement IS spacetime

    • @solitary200
      @solitary200 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dumb af

  • @metafuel
    @metafuel 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Superbly explained.

  • @lungflogger9
    @lungflogger9 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    he talks about vibrations and i recall Brian Wilson's Good Vibrations, the lyrics, centered around a love song context, are very relevant to this discussion.....

  • @goundry
    @goundry 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    A wise man once said "Take a trip to another dimension. Pay close attention"

    • @caseyjordan9513
      @caseyjordan9513 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Is this Joe Rogan talking about DMT lol?

    • @TeodorAngelov
      @TeodorAngelov 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@caseyjordan9513 It might be The Prodigy - Out of Space

  • @sent4dc
    @sent4dc 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's some crazy multi-threaded world, Sean Carroll.

  • @danstar455
    @danstar455 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Having studied pure mathematics I have a firm belief that Nature is beautiful. Dr. Carroll's approach of showing how gravity could emerge from many worlds quantum mechanics is where I place my bet.

    • @espaciohexadimencionalsern3668
      @espaciohexadimencionalsern3668 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      what if light jumps when reaching 300000km/s times 10 as fast lets say10 to the 22 or more each time would we see it? i think we did and is what happens whene they see the atoms in two places at a time, the thing that it is is that: imagine a marblel in a band that comes and goes, you will see that the marble moves to one side then to another, and it will look to you that the atom is in 2 places at atime but what realy is is that the energy flows so fast that tou wiil see matter when it stops in one side and when it stops in the other. its not to imposible to BELIAVE OF HOW FAST ENERGY IS.

  • @TheNosarajr
    @TheNosarajr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I see all things changing so fast, that all is new with the passing of every bit of time.

  • @windycityspecialties
    @windycityspecialties 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Could dark matter actually be the effect of the many worlds on our experienced version?

    • @arnoutvanbuul6425
      @arnoutvanbuul6425 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Exactly what i was wondering. Esspecially since the universe is expanding in a ever increasing speed. Maybe gravity bleeds through the branches of reality.

    • @lansanacamara4148
      @lansanacamara4148 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've always thought of dark matter as the memory bank of all metaphysical "stuff", assuming one believes in things like consciousness and so on. I.e., where is consciousness? Maybe it is defined somewhere in dark matter.

    • @trex1652
      @trex1652 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Arnout van Buul haven’t we tested this? When gravity waves were were detected they were exactly what our measurements said they would be not accounting for extra dimensions. If there were extra dimensions it would have been less. So supposedly this means more then likely that NO there are no extra dimensions.

  • @bennettwaisbren
    @bennettwaisbren 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There's a line of logic in our code that states "if user observes fundamental structures of reality, jumble the results"