Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | October 2023
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Published 2023-10-09
Blog post with audio player, show notes, and transcript: www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/10/09/am…
Welcome to the October 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number -- based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good -- and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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All Comments (21)
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"So...we wrote a little paper..." Classic Carroll modesty.
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I'm so happy, i'm going to spend my month listening to this over and over... I love these. Sean Carroll Rocks! I love how he keeps me on track with how I try to abstract answers and questions from my own thoughts. ☮
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This AMA speaks to me and reminds me that each day I get older I feel like time passes faster.
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lol wait - the best advice/answer in AMA history. In response to people complaining - “Ya know, live with it” Legend.
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I was very interested in your answer to onlynormal person. I must applaud you Sean, for tackling such a horribly difficult question. As someone who sort-of struggled with such issues at a stage in my life, I have to admire the carefully thought-out balance to what you said. You were spot-on. To Mr/Ms onlynormalperon.....I'm sorry you feel that way. I know nothing about your life but there's always hope, please don't give up.
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Thank you for putting your time into making these videos
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Happy belated birthday Sean. 🎉🎉.
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Lets go, new sleep material
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October already?! Proof that time is speeding up!
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Thanks to the electric engineer who asked about the electron charge bc as I went to my few studies in physics and chemistry I got the same impression and thanks to Mr SC for his answer.
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Can you do an episode on what we think is true but could actually be vastly different, for example the age of the universe being older than 13.9 billion years, or the size, etc
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Thank you
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I really liked your answer to the question on why the US is so different from other nations with respect to things like climate change. I never thought about the links to the civil war but I think you're absolutely right that many political issues or views that may seem inexplicable really do have ties way back to the civil war. I guess the next question to ask is how entrenched these political views are and how many generations of Americans it will take before they can feel a true sense of unity again.
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And finally, any physicist should think that the world is deterministic. Why don't they all. How do they reconcile that?
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Sean Carroll, I love you.
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'much more complicated than that' .. exactly.
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you parse well the level of the questions to calculate your questioner-level appropriate response.
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About question around 27:50 . Simple response is, if a person is smart and worthy enough to learn engineering or physics than they should be able to handle such a basic the sign convention. its like a person blowing air on a mountain to make it fly. Cant believe an Electrical engineer asked such a lame question.
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YouTube music isn't going anywhere.I think. It'll host podcasts plus it'll make it easier to watch video podcasts. I've been using it for a few months now on a trial basis to see if I need to find something else.
