Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Ever wanted to know how music affects your brain, what quantum mechanics really is, or how black holes work? Do you wonder why you get emotional each time you see a certain movie, or how on earth video games are designed? Then you've come to the right place. Each week, Sean Carroll will host conversations with some of the most interesting thinkers in the world. From neuroscientists and engineers to authors and televi
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- 1 From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of TimeSean Carroll · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum BiologyJim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe TickJim Al-Khalili · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of TimeSean Carroll · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum BiologyJim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe TickJim Al-Khalili · 1× across 1 episode
- 1 From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of TimeSean Carroll · 1× across 1 episode
- 2 Life on the Edge: The Coming of Age of Quantum BiologyJim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden · 1× across 1 episode
- 3 On Time: The Physics That Makes the Universe TickJim Al-Khalili · 1× across 1 episode
“Newton would be much harder,'cause the Principia is really hard to read”
“if you've read Quanta and Fields, my second um volume in the biggest ideas in the universe series, you know what we're talking about”
“John von Norman worked on it, but Norman Morgenstern was an economist in their famous book that introduced game theory or made a gigantic leap forward”
“Samelson and Nordhaus' famous book that a lot of people taught from Said, you know it's sadly like Astronomy and um uh you know geology we can't do experiments”
“Kyle's new book is called The Last Animal. human history and the fate of life on earth from the ice age to the sixth extinction”
“there's a there's a An analogy that um that um Richard Bangham uses in his book Catching Fire, is the you know, Harvard Primatologist Anthropologist”
“on page twenty two of Modern Quantum Mechanics. Sakurai cites Dirac's definition of a measurement”
“Elizabeth's book of essays, uh that just came out was in particular about the role of poetry in uh keeping the spirit of democracy alive”
“When Jennifer was writing her book The Calculus Diaries and she had a chapter on um probability and odds”
“My whole book, The Big Picture, was about advocating for naturalism”
“some of your listeners may be familiar with You know, the Steven Weinberg book of a previous generation called The First Three Minutes”
“So Greg has a new book out called How to Live Well Without Free Will”
“So I remember in my book The Big Picture, um, I bring up the I guess famous case of there was a guy in Texas”
“But In my book Rejecting Retributivism, I give a case of a guy who”
“But her new book, Signals Across Fast Distances, is a collection of essays and some artwork illustrations with the theme, one of the themes, there's a lot going on in the book as a short book”
“she's one I know in part because she wrote a celebrated biography of Hosiah Willard Gibbs, one of the famous American physicists”
“She has another uh extraordinary prose book called The Life of Poetry”
“he passed away now uh 14 years ago and I wrote a memoir about that time pretty shortly after he died, which was shocking to me”
“Einstein's equation and general relativity, I presume you've all read volume two of the biggest ideas in the universe, sorry, volume one of the biggest ideas in the universe, space-time and motion”
“after recently reading Brian Green's The Hidden Reality, I've been thinking more about the different physical theories that imply a multiverse”
“It is an important book to read, but you should also read something deeply hidden to really get into what happens when a measurement occurs”
“or even, I think, back in From Eternity to Here, I talked about this thing”
“And of course he had uh a very famous book, Guns, Germs, and Steel, uh back in like nineteen ninety seven, I think it was”
“So he's written many books since then, but the new book is called Prophets, Prophets, Coach, and Kings. When do leaders Matter”
“I did want to touch on Collapse as one of the books you're talking about because We're doing this arc from this grand history”
“after the year twenty nineteen when I published my book Upheaval”
“when I was writing my First trade book from Eternity to Here ... So the subtitle ended up The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time”
“today's guest, Jim Alkalili Uh, has a new book out called On Time, and his sub subtitle is The Physics That Makes the Universe Tick”
“With whom I went on to write a a book on quantum biology, um, called Life on the Edge”
“So he has a book on ignorance, he has a book on failure, uh he has a book Most recently, the most recent book is called It Could Be Otherwise Science in the Age of Uncertainty”
“And failure is subtitled What Makes Science So Successful”
“When it was invented. was invented the word was invented by Voltaire for his novel Candide or Optimism”
“Unified Theories of Cognition. Beautiful book. John Anderson's book”
“if you read the introduction to how the mind works by Steve Pinker, that's an ambitious book”
“I talk about this in the big picture, where I talk about the idea of planets of belief”
“I just listened to the audiobook of Jurassic Park this summer and I feel like the ghost of Ian Malcolm is warning me that this is not a good idea”
“this question is referring to the story by Albert Camus. Myth of Sisyphus and”
“In quanta and fields, you explicitly write of the positron field, page 210, as separate from the electron field”
“I've just finished reading Stephen Hawking's Brief History of Time and noted that he And Gregory Laflamm believed that the arrow of time would not reverse in a contracting phase of the universe”
“goes back to Adam Smith and so on as a mechanism in this view of The wealth of nations”
“if you look up in the Feynman Lectures on Physics or the Feynman Lectures on Gravitation”
“or the Feynman Lectures on Gravitation, and I think, but I'm not 100% sure about this in the character of physical law”
“in the character of physical law, he talks about this problem”
“there's a great book by Derek Bach and oops, I forget the other guy's name. Derek Bach used to be the president of Harvard, and he and the president of Princeton ... did this serious study of like, has it worked”
“the first book in the Biggest Ideas in the Universe series, Space Time in Motion, will have no problem understanding”
“The book is called Nature and the Mind, The Science of How Nature Improves Cognitive, Physical and Social Wellbeing”
“Actually when I was reading your book, The Big Picture, you have a figure in their sort of about this”
“I mean, I've been reading Hofstetter's book too, I Am a Strange Loop, which is kind of interesting too”
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