Sean Carroll: "The Big Picture" | Talks at Google
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The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. Already internationally acclaimed for his notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings extraordinary intellect to our deepest personal questions. Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, beliefs, hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless in the void? Does human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview? Carroll's presentation of the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is unique. He shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. “Weaving the threads of astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, and philosophy into a seamless narrative tapestry, Sean Carroll enthralls us with what we’ve figured out in the universe and humbles us with what we don’t yet understand. Yet in the end, it’s the meaning of it all that feeds your soul of curiosity.” —Neil deGrasse Tyson, host of Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the CalTech and received his PhD from Harvard. Recently, he has worked on the foundations of quantum mechanics, the arrow of time, and the emergence of complexity. He has earned prizes and fellowships by the NSA, NASA, Sloan Foundation, Packard Foundation, American Physical Society, American Institute of Physics, Royal Society of London, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation. Carroll has appeared on The Colbert Report, PBS’s NOVA, and Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman, and serves as a science consultant for film and TV. He has been interviewed by NPR, Scientific American, Wired, and The NYT, and has given a TED talk on the multiverse that has more than 1M views. This Talk at Google talk was hosted by Boris Debic. eBook https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Sean_Carroll_The_Big_Picture?id=x21qCgAAQBAJ
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subtle gtalk chat sound at 23:28
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Great talk BUT is he correct (at 48 mins) when he says "before modern medicine we lived 30-40 years? The ephors of sparta were only eligible for election at age 60 and the bible (it's not always wrong) suggests three score years and ten (i.e, 70) as a reasonable age so those ages must have been common (or at least not rare). Anybody out there know if we have really doubled our life expectancy?
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"You don't have to explain why things move in the universe, the natural state is for things to move."
Not logical. Sorry. Even in a frictionless environment things do not manifest and begin moving just because. There is always a cause.
Wrong.
Academia is a joke. We need more natural philosophers and less math nerds who think they can describe the universe with equations which have gotten so far abstract it is like reading a Disney story conspiracy article. Sure, sounds legit if you don't know any better.... but you know... it isn't.
Go back and read and study the words of the early guys in EM/field theory. They were on the right path. Those guys are the inventors of all of the technology we use today, Einstein and all these modern academic quacks haven't invented anything but theories.
Nothing bugs me more than when I go try to watch a physics lectures on the MIT open courseware and you hear a professor say "Is this how it works in nature... No, but the math works".... So fuck nature right?
Nature doesn't have a calculator, and when you have to express something with an axiom/equation set that is 50 pages long with "strong forces" and "weak force" which were basically arbitrarily put in place because that is what made the model work.... something is absolutely wrong. I think that quantum field theory is on the right track, but we need real thinkers in the field, not just mathematicians. -
So I'm watching a talk from Sean Carroll @ Google and @ 28:00 I'm like "Ekinological, WTF!" so I Google it and the first result is a link to this very lecture...WHAT DOES IT MEAN ?!?!?!
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or maybe it's that everything "inside" goes "outside". oh jesus this is fun. sorry !
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ok ok i'm going i promise
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i love Sean Carroll. oops. where did that come from? dimensions = dot world is time. flatworld is space. 3 is thought. 1, 2, 3......
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i have the answer. Thought is all there is ever. that would explain everything. would2 . (proof? = if something has to be observed for it to occur = then thought is what causes it to occur or to be === to be or not to be == = and thought is comprised of specific actual real events which happen to a single entity in which they occur -- such as a person or such as the whole world -- ) .
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so then everything in the World-- from beginning to end--- is like an explosion . none of this is exactly imo. i will get to work on it . for one thing, if "Time" has an "arrow" --- then so does everything else.. why i dont know why ok
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Why wouldn't you not want to make money from your t-shirts? The universe is a particle.
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'You come here in physical terms, then try to understand another level'
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The principles of Uncertainty destroys any possible deterministic Universe and therefore we have Free Will .
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Excellent example when using Lucia de Berk.. just imagine the Orwellian situation she found herself in...
And Sean, we don't have a jury system in Holland. And she wasn't found to be innocent, she was found to be not guilty.. -
that talk was very low entropy level..
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Sean Caroll is great and I wish I were half as clear and to the point as him. Giraffes do not have long necks to be able to reach 'those leaves' though as the majority of their norishment do not come from leaves of tall trees. They have long necks because of their combat techniques called 'necking'.
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The UNBELIEVABLE similarities between Sean Carroll’s idea (2016) (California Institute of Technology, USA) (within the wrong framework, the “universe”) and my ideas (2002-2010) (within the EDWs framework) on quantum mechanics, the relationship between Einstein relativity and quantum mechanics, life, the mind-brain problem, etc. at
https://www.academia.edu/29578814/The_UNBELIEVABLE_similarities_between_Sean_Carrolls_idea_2016_California_Institute_of_Technology_USA_or_Frank_Wilczecks_ideas_2016_Nobel_Prize_on_Physics_and_my_ideas_2002-2010 at http://philpapers.org/rec/VACTUS-5 or
https://www.academia.edu/29578814/The_UNBELIEVABLE_similarities_between_Sean_Carrolls_idea_2016_California_Institute_of_Technology_USA_or_Frank_Wilczecks_ideas_2016_Nobel_Prize_on_Physics_and_my_ideas_2002-2010
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Time is a way to measure the changing state of matter, speed and gravity alter the rate of change.
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The netherlands doesnt have jury in courts....
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the egg has a future in politics, where getting more and more broken is a job qualification
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Puzzles of Quantum Mechanics that remain not explainable are not the only puzzles, the absolute speed of light (General Relativity),says if you are moving with speed s and focus light out, it keeps traveling at the same speed c.
As for the second law of thermodynamics, how it breaks down, producing entities like life with lower entropy are not fully understood. Lee Smolin did a good work explaining how plasma keep up their temperature to a high level for a long time, has newer explanations, explaining how the 2 nd law breaks down.
On the whole we have a long road ahead and may never get the job of finding the mysteries that keep us occupied, finished before we are finished, by an asteroid, or a virus, or something.
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