The quantum revolution - with Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll delves into the baffling and beautiful world of quantum mechanics.

This livestream was recorded at the Ri on the 24 July 2024.

Immense, strange and infinite, the world of modern physics often feels impenetrable to the undiscerning eye. A jumble of muons, gluons and quarks are impossible to explain without several degrees and a research position at CERN.

But it doesn’t have to be this way!

In this livestream, world-renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Sean Carroll guides you through the biggest ideas in the universe. In an elegant and simple way, Carroll unravels a web of theories to get to the heart of the truths they represent about the world around us.

From Schrödinger to Feynman, he travels through the quantum revolution with the twentieth century's greatest minds. Exploring how several decades of research overturned centuries of convention, he provides a dazzling tour of the most exciting ideas in modern science.

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Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of natural philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He won the Royal Society Winton Prize for his book about the search for the elusive Higgs boson, The Particle at the End of the Universe, and The Big Picture was an international bestseller. His most recent book is Something Deeply Hidden. He lives in Baltimore.
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[TheHarmonicOscillator]

In “Something Deeply Hidden, ” Dr. Carroll presents the case that Everett’s Universal Wavefunction (Many Worlds) is the simplest explanation for our quantum mechanical observations. It is easy to understand and to me convincing. I highly recommended it. He is a marvelous teacher in print and in speech.

[Pwoods]

Love that you have a 4 string bass in the background Dr. Carroll. Musical analogies help me tremendously in understanding particle physics.

[musequal]

Thank you to Dr. Carroll and to the Ri for hosting this lecture, amazing and insightful!

[owlredshift]

Sean Carroll is my favorite science communicator of all time.

[aroemaliuged]

Sean seems to pick his enemies without pushback

[lightlegion_]

That’s truly amazing! Let’s stay in touch!

[lilldandannoodles]

Def my favorite science communicator, brilliant speaker!

I'm psyched to be a mindscape patreon supporter for him, it's on my to do list.

Priority question is def gonna be "Doesn't your wife ever tell you to get a haircut"?

Thanks for all your fine work in public education. <3

[bobjackson]

Bravo! Great podcast video. I'm sending this to my grandchildren to watch. You explain science so clearly that it draws the viewer into the subject. I'm sitting on my seat as I watch. Thank you for such a good video.

[grayaj]

OK I now have an idea what "gauge symmetry" means. I never understood it before.

[omegasrevenge]

Sean Carroll is the most charismatic speaker I have ever heard.

[ronanfurlong]

Have the books - looking forward to this ....

[SONALI-ws]

Interesting Equations !! BRILLIANT ....

[peter]

Carroll's voice makes me in sleepy mode, maybe that is in quantum state

[ValidatingUsername]

What happens when neutrinos try to pass through a Minkowski singularity at the same time 🧐🥱🤫😉🙃🤷‍♂️🤨

[Gringohuevon]

Miss Noether will be spinning in her rotationally -invariant under R1 grave at not being mentioned

[zack_]

The best episode of discussing particle physics, but surprised to hear that all particles have been discovered, a huge assumption (5:28). The analogy of brain particles in explaining it is hard to understand.

[marishkagrayson]

The concept of rest mass/energy is weird, because it’s only relative to something that it’s at rest and everything is always moving in the universe.

[Lastindependentthinker]

(Scale2) = (Energy2) = (Mass2) = (Time2) = (Entrophy2)
(ISO(3, 1)) x (SO(3, 1)) x ((U(1))) x ((SU(2)_L)) x ((SU(2)_R)) x ((SU(3)))

[andycordy]

❤The analogy of the waiter is priceless. How else could I have understood the concept of a guage field or understand from where the energy comes in a quantum field. I found maths and physics completely impenetrable in school but 50 years later, when someone else takes the strain, it's a whole lot of fun

[fractalnomics]

I'm proud of myself for having written an interpretation of quantum mechanics, and not care that no one cares. It's a great place to be, unmeasured.