Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | December 2022

I wish there were more people as well spoken and honest as Sean weighing on complicated topics on the internet.

Thanks again Prof. Sean, for taking over 3 hours of your valuable time, to answer such a wide variety of questions from all of us, with patience, consideration and wisdom.

Thank you for this service to Humanity. ^.^

I am so grateful for this channel! Thank you so much Sean Carroll and everyone that helped in any way to produce these!

Ohh, early Christmas again. Just love it. Thank you so much. 😊 Have no idea where or when you find time to sleep. But as long as you feel good and deliver this high quality physics material to the physics community, I guess we are all winners and thankful. 👍 Please keep on this splendid work.

I've been with this podcast since episode 1. My science journey has been narrated by Sean to a large extent - thank you

its a blessing to hear your soothing confident voice...❤️

Man this is so nail on the head for me! Thanks man, now I don't have to explain myself and my positions as often anymore lol, I can just send people this thing lol Love it! Thank you! I love your work! And your perspective and methodology are things I strive to incorporate into myself as well. Or at least they're part of my current paradigm that I am stress testing 🐱

1:46:42 (paraphrased) "I do what I want." 🤩

@6:55, occasional snarky is not only ok, but encouraged & well received & a good learning tool.

I really enjoyed your recent discussion with Sir Roger Penrose, thought provoking ideas .

Have a merry christmas and happy new year

Thank you, Prof., for such a candid and exciting episode.

I like to hear your mind process thank you . Great explanations of topics thank you .

The fluctuations in football are actually what makes it so alluring, and yes even the decisive penalty kicks at the end of a draw. There are surprises, and underdogs can win.......way more often than in basketball.

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! 😁👍

It's very nice to see somebody that's cosmically aware conscience of who and what we really are thank you for not being some make-believe but actually truthful being thank you so much And that the teacher and the students are all one in the same

Sean we can all rise above negative thoughts and criticism and hate that we don't really need to make a session of it but just to become aware and let people know that you're aware and that you aren't that kind of a person thank you you're a beautiful person and don't dwell on what people think negatively about you and your ideas because the same as mine and I support you thank you !

Question: is there a connection or a reason black holes can only grow (not withstanding Hawking radiation) with the fact that their temperature is so low and the balmy 2.7k of space via big bang after glow is still "energy" albeit only a little. In other words, does the 2.7 plus vacuum energy slowly "feed" black holes (even when they are not feeding on other mattter like gas)?

Regarding the first story... In an interview I saw recently with Neil deGrasse Tyson he was pushed into discussing race, which he quickly admitted was something he had always avoided speaking about publicly; although he politely answered the questions posed to him. His approach to helping break down the barriers, for those that clearly need a little help, was simply to let his public/media work play out like anyone else in his position and essentially let those that would otherwise see a difference work out for themselves how and why their past 'bias' was wrong. I think there are a few minority groups that need to try an equally intelligent path to messaging the public and understand that a heavy handed approach to altering the attitude of what is probably an even smaller minority is likely increasing the number of intolerant people rather than reducing it.