We have already discovered everything that is relevant | Sean Carroll on physics

#physics #discovery

[CorwinPearson]

We have a theory of almost everything that affects us personally. I think that's an important thing to say. A lot of people like to put established science into question by evoking the unknown. But most of what we experience has an equation to explain it. Whatever else there is to discover will be a very small percentage of what affects us in everyday life.

[Neverland]

I beg to differ. We are always suseptible to those things. We just haven't figured out how yet. We don't know what we don't yet know

[DJ_Force]

The arrogance in these comments is breathtaking. We can explain everything we see from the scale of the solar system to the scale of the proton with incredible accuracy and precision. There may be issues beyond that scale, but that doesn't affect life on Earth and likely never will.

People who insist that this physicist is wrong are like people who disagree with their doctor because they Googled their symptoms.

[Ludwig.-.Wittgenstein]

Absurd claim, I think. What he said could be said and were said in most parts of the past.

[pootsie]

Just because we haven't identified something doesn't necessarily mean it does not affect us

[yaserthe]

Sean Caroll reminds me of scientists in the 1800s, who thought its all figured out.

He says the stuff left to discover has no impact on day to day life. I beg to differ.

For example dark matter particles have no impact on day to day life, sure thats true, but if they did not exist, galaxies would not have existed, and by extension sean Caroll would not have existed

[Iamthepossum]

That’s ok Sean, God still loves you ❤

[dudeamongus]

What a ridiculous claim. How can he possibly know the undetectable is not affecting him? Ridiculous.

[UniversalSovereignCitizen]

Like a concrete block falling silently from a tall building directly above you...🤯

[aladdin]

Well you can't detect consciousness either, yet it has the most important fundamental impact in our lives ever.

[crunchy]

The message from Professor Carol here is that if you can’t detect something then it MUST be insignificant. I can’t easily believe that to be true; it seems more probable to me that an unprecedented cosmic event could reform our understanding of physics, so could a new discovery

[antoniopacelli]

A theoretical academician speaking of
Dark Energy seems like a Military Contractor speaking of Peace...

[brianpcox]

I feel like dark matter is the leftover stretch of the fabric of space-time, that's wicking matter along itself like water up a papertowel. Heat death is the ultimate distribution of all things along the fabric. The universe will "dry out."

[TiSIWO]

The issue is not Dark Matter per se! The main struggle is Dark Energy!! He knows that too!!! To say that anything that cannot be detected (yet) has no bearing on our every day experience is ludicrous. The Higgs Boson remained undetected for decades, yet no one would dare say (at anytime) that gravity is insignificant in our daily lives nor understanding of the universe.

[apbq]

The fact that something is hard to detect does not necessarily mean that it does not have an outsized impact on our brain. For example, what if the origin of consciousness is hard to detect?

[JasonWalsh-qz]

I AGREE. I HAVEN'T DETECTED DARK MATTER OR DARK ENERGY, EVEN THOUGH THEY EXIST. THEY DON'T EFFECT ME.

[TheSavageGent]

“Yeah we’ll discover new laws of physics, and new particles. But it won’t have an impact or matter”…… what? We have groundbreaking discoveries that aren’t even close to breaking the laws of physics.. I don’t understand how tht can be minimized so negligently 😅

[ProYada]

Roger Penrose's ideas on Consciousness seem pretty damn important for explaining how we're even capable of being self-aware.

[Kwisatz_HaderachXIII]

I absolutely disagree. There is so much we don’t know about the universe, physics, quantum physics etc that it is absurd to say we know for certain that there aren’t any unknown things left to discover that affect our day to day life / surroundings in some way shape or form.

[funjuan]

I think he's saying, 'What you don't know won't hurt you'.