Mindscape Ask Me Anything, Sean Carroll | December 2021

Welcome to the December 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — 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. Note that there will be no January AMA, for purposes of a holiday break. Enjoy!

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[FreethinkingSecularist]

I'm laughing so hard that one fellow used his priority question to make a joke about having another priority question. 🤣 Matt Hickman is a hero to use his one chance for answers about the universe to make everyone else's universe a bit more enjoyable. Thanks buddy! 😊

[FreeIrelandCountyRepublic]

Just got my booster and feel like 🥵This is just the ticket to take my mind of it! Many thanks from sunny Eire 🇮🇪

[akumar]

Hi Sean, a big thank you, I was unwell with Covid last Christmas, I came across your channel and started watching, its been a wonderful experience.

[ezsparky]

Awesome, I have been waiting for December's AMA video!

[ianmarshall]

Dear Sean, i think the Victorian Academics / Theologians / Mountaineers might disagree, in my opinion it was an attempt to development body and mind, strengthening both while at odds with nature . It really puts you in your place in the universe when things arent going well and when you realise the thousands of years of change that created the rock jutting up from tectonic plates that were once sea beds its very humbling . Physics plays a part especially when you take a fall so does biology when your fingers tentatively grip the fossil of a ammonite also geology, Yorkshire grit will shred your skin when sliding down due to gravity and your failing muscles , saying all that i would trade every mountain or climb from my past to have been able to add something to the wealth of human knowledge, keep up the great work in pushing onward with the Enlightenment Project, love the podcasts, Knowledge is the hero !

[enterprisesoftwarearchitect]

The answer to Michael’s question- 347 km per second with respect to the Cosmic Background Radiation- that’s how much to subtract to even out the dipole anomaly. Also accelerated motion like spinning CAN be determined by centrifugal force measurement.

[phycogsmithomniscience]

that debate, between sean and allan was great and I am now exploring both people,

[Lance_Lough]

Wow. Great. Been waiting expectantly and here it is!

[KirkpatrickSounds]

Thanks for the excellent AMA as always

[Life_]

I listen to your AMA at 1.75x speed and your episodes at 1.5x speed.

[gerrycrabtree]

Don't give me the "it's not you it's me routine". I invented the it's not you it's me routine. Then Sean immediately although I think unintentionally follows with one of Hawking's most hilarious asides, involving black holes. The hairless quality of back holes was Hawking's punch line. Was the book, A brief history of time? Don't know I read that passage once a long time ago. In the middle of a science book the surprise comedy was hilariously effective.

[tommygrandefors]

Lovely so lovely. I thought Sean didn’t do any December AMAs. Remember that from a previous AMA. So happy that he has changed his mind. Thank you very much for that Sean. Love this. 👍

[LinGLong]

Every episode I hear a question from a Jeff B. Bezos ? 😄

[leegale]

3.10.00 as a Brit, I can 100% confirm the perception that we brought peace and love around the world as we colonised;
and drained their resources 😂

[jonwesick]

Little Donkey in Cambridge is a great restaurant. It's by the Central T station.

[enterprisesoftwarearchitect]

@Jeremy Dittman - we’ll probably be augmenting knowledge/understanding with ‘memory modules’ in the future - idea found in many science fiction works.

[bariizlam]

Professor Sean Carrol thanks for the take on the elon musk/bernie sanders saga! I truly appreciate your work and all the knowledge you share with us! Thank you

[tedwalford]

No one will see this, but I'm here, so this is where I'll say it. There was a question asked, just sitting here on Earth, what is my speed? And the answer was given that we haven't "a speed, " because we'd have to say relative to what, and that could be anything. And I get that. But then follows this: If I begin to travel from where I was, how do I--or how does the physics of the universe--know if or when I'm approaching that universal speed limit, light speed? In other words, that light-speed limit is relative to what? And if there's nothing to measure from, then how can there be a limit?

[doctorsloth]

I love it when Sean talks about their cats.

[DaKoopaKing]

Don't knock Subway sandwiches. Their Italian B.M.T. is fucking amazing