Physicist Sean Carroll on 'The Biggest Ideas in the Universe'

Sean Carroll takes us on a deep dive into the physics that pulls back the veil of mystery from the most complex ideas in the field.

Sean Carroll is a Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and the creator of the wildly popular YouTube series "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe," after which the book is named. Attracting fans eager to expand their minds, Carroll has a special knack for explaining the most expansive concepts in an entertaining, witty, and uniquely lucid way. In this author's view, the foundational concepts of classical physics from Newton to Einstein are as worthy of our gaze as the Mona Lisa, and he is committed to making these ideas accessible to all.

This project is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology, bridging the two cultures of science and the arts.

[steliosp]

Sean ♥ Thanks for your work professor and Pioneer Works for setting this up!

[FranciscoGarcia-kyfz]

Excellent speaker, have just purchase the book in Spanish, and are waiting for the arrival to start reading it.

[ScottyHugefellow]

Can somebody please help me understand how time is shorter when its its not a straight line between two points, Im unable to conceptualise

[tobacolossi]

Mileva Maric was his wife and the brains behind the math.
She was from Novi Sad, Serbia, born in family of mathematicians, she was fed formula for breakfast when she was baby.

[ForrestWest]

If gravity is not a force like the others and it's just the curvature of space-time why would there be any particles for gravity?

[benjaminkennedy]

If you're not absolutely astonished when he says "what's going on is its a black hole" missed the whole point of the lecture.

[terrellbrown]

Oppie wrote a paper in 1939
predicting black holes. Should have win1939 Nobel??
58:25

[Harshharsh]

I knew it. The Newton's apple story was fake.
The true story was that while Newton was sitting on the lawn, a coconut fell from an apple tree.

[SuperBlinding]

If every other distance between two points is shorter in time than the distance time of two points in space ( shortest distance between ) then does this prove that the Universe is Not infinite in time ?

And if the Universe is not infinite in time ~ ~ Is it therefore, not also infinite in space ?

[timothy]

Magnetic fields are force of pressure known as motion of unification, of unidirectional flow. Magnets show the bonding power of atomic strength. Unidirectional flow, in unification of thermaldynamics, is the bonding of pressure of mass in equalization to resistance. Resistance is always in equalization of the pressure of heat. Resistance redirects heated to equalization. Tornadoes, hurricanes, and cyclones. Lightning burns through the atmospheres in equalization. All mass is heat, and resistance exchanges heat by forward momentum causing decay or aging. Density cannot exceed resistance. Thermaldynamics is ou tward force of pressure. Resistance is equal to the mass in and out of entanglement. Mass is the weakest point of resistance. Resistance is neutralized in mass as outward force of pressure as weight. Density. Heat is light in resistance to atmospheres. Heat is the cosmic speed limit in resistance to cold space. Resistance repels forward momentum, and propels forward momentum. Unidirectional flow is both, clockwise and counterclockwise. Time is the interactions of exchanges of energy decay or renewable energy within mass. Space is both resistance and thermaldynamics. Both coexist, but don't mix. They coexist as opposed force. All know energy is heat in, various degrees of releasing or accumulation. Absorption, refraction, or releasing cycling circulation patterns as decay. Outward force is decay. Heat expansion is mass. Expansion is force as outward pressure. In mass, it is the outward force of pressure known as weight. Table of elements proves hypothesis. The more energy within. The more outward force of weight. Mass, heat, curves. Planets are spheres that are curved held in resistance equally on all fronts. We are space within and without. We vibrate through space as space itself, exchanging the energy ahead of our forward momentum, point to point timed interactions. We decay, as we exchange positions, not exactly the same energy content, as we were. Forward momentum is constant in our demise. Stars replenish the thermaldynamics. When cycling circulation patterns are disrupted, the repulsion within repels thermaldynamics outward as force. Force of momentum is increasing in velocity. Pressure is lost as decay of mass. We power our mechanics with decay of losing pressure of outward force of heat. We stock food to burn as heat to maintain our current maximum momentum velocity, in resistance. 98.6. We vibrate as mass in our current state of pressure as maximum momentum velocity, in resistance. Equalization of thermaldynamics and cold resistance is equal to our current existence. Balancing our existence. Theories are outward force of pressure known as weight. Heavy lifting is energy within. Resistance is always equalization to the mass. Density makes no difference to resistance. Resistance is always equalization to density. Mass is in space. Mass occupies space itself, as space. We vibrate as it, of it, in it. Resistance is cold space. We remove heat to cool down. We add heat to warm up.
Can you see the energy of universal mass? Electricity is heat releasing as equalization to resistance. Tornadoes, cyclones, hurricanes, the latter being a prime example of, is space different atmospheric anomalies? Or does space itself follow the same physical equalization of thermaldynamics and cold resistance? Heat is the smallest frequency in resistance as a singularity. Unification, of unidirectional flow is repelled into entanglement. Distance of forward momentum is reduced by redirected trajectories. This is the curvature of circulation cycling patterns created by repulsion to propulsion of heat forward momentum. Thermaldynamics curves, collides, and unifies in unidirectional flow that is both clockwise and counterclockwise. Magnetic fields. Magnets show the flow of pressure that holds together mass as force of unification, unidirectional force of pressure holding mass together in resistance. Magnets force flow. Magnets repel flow. Both are one and the same. Top and bottom. Alpha and Omega. Positive and negative without electrons. Flow going in, flow going out. Electricity is forced flow outward in equalization to resistance of flow. Propulsion. Repulsion and propulsion are opposite forces of pressure. Thermaldynamics is the only force universal as space itself. Physics is which way the toilet flushes in equalization to its interactions of point to point of resistance and thermaldynamics. Bubbles of heat. Bubbles of resistance. Black holes theoretically could be bubbles of pure fabric of space itself as resistance, capable of jetting thermaldynamics outward force of pressure into space in resistance. Thermaldynamics is repelled towards the weakest resistance which is the greater mass of neutralized resistance within. In our case, earth is the greater mass of neutralized, resistance.

[bilinguru]

You promised not to confuse people, but by 30 minutes in, everyone other than math people or left brained physicists have checked out.

[malinkifox]

Didn’t really enjoy this book. There are text books for this purpose and I’m not sure why Sean wrote it for general public of which 99% don’t know or need to know such equations

[BB-gdpk]

So interesting. White guys are amazing.