The Biggest Ideas in the Universe | Q&A 1 - Conservation

Errata: at 7:23 I say "equilateral" triangle when I really just meant "right" triangle. (Also isosceles.)

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe is a series of videos where I talk informally about some of the fundamental concepts that help us understand our natural world. Exceedingly casual, not overly polished, and meant for absolutely everybody.

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[AL-SH]

One of my biggest joys while being quarantined here in a hot zone part of California is watching Professor Caroll's "The Biggest Ideas in the Universe". Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us.

[mattblack]

The background behind you suggests you're taking the social distancing very seriously.

[lenn]

Oh my god that expression at 26:20 when Sean calls Emmy Noether “Emily” is just priceless :’) Thanks for not cutting (or more likely failing to cut) that out.

[veo_]

OH MY GOD. I failed out of calculus three times in college. I only stopped because it was ruining my GPA. I wanted to be a physisist since I was 9 years old and tried and tried, but couldn't grok the maths! (I became a computer scientist instead LOL} The theory absorbs like a sponge but the nuts and bolts, I eventually accepted, were simply beyond me. Apparently my professors just were terrible! This video, and the barebones mathmatical theory involved, was an Eureka! moment for me, and youir explaination was just a tangent! Thank you, Sean Carroll! I feel foolish for not seeing the relationships I had at hand, and also a burning rsentment of what counts as an educational system in the United States for failing to actually educate me as me as a young, enthusiastic, student.

[rodrigoserafim]

A positive effect of quarantine is that we now have a greater number of scientists doing their own podcasts and getting knowledge of complex topics into the general public.

[mef]

I’d like to think the Many Worlds theory includes a universe in which I understand all this.

[billlyons]

"I will not be naming everyone, just the ones with really funny usernames."

[papsaebus]

You are such a great Teacher! I wish you could also do more advanced, full-fledged physics courses in this exact format, with mathematics and all that🙄

[JasonWalsh-bn]

ENERGY IS REAL. YOU'RE RIGHT,
SEAN. THERE IS NO CALORIC.❤

[spirinsola]

Suggestion: maybe a quiz at the end to see and apply what we've learned to help store it??? Like a challenge for us just learning. Thanks.

[desperateastro]

carroll is arguably the best guide and explainer, when it comes to the mind-boggling, mind-stretching, contents of today's physics. He explains and even entertains, without oversimplifying and dumbing down the subject.

[mazinjalili]

I’ve been a Patreon supporter of Mindscape since the beginning and a big fan of your work in general. You bet I’m going watch this series!

[ddavidjeremy]

First question almost made me pass out I was laughing so hard. I would watch and hour of Sean reading usernames with a straight face. PRICELESSLY FUNNY!!

[narasimhasithurea]

To a motivated learner, these videoes are of great help 👏

[stephenpeterson]

I've just finished Feynman's six 1964 Messenger Lectures at Cornell, so this series is a great way to reinforce these ideas.

[stephenarmiger]

I don't believe I am watching this. Finishing my second glass of wine and laughing hysterically. Fifty years since I graduated from college. The best I got in calculus was Cs and I pretty much forgot everything. Pretty uninspirational teacher. Took Khan Academy High School Calculus BC last year for awhile, so the waters are not so muddy. All that said, I am sort of following and sort of comprehending. Thank you. I bought your book, Something Deeply Hidden, and read the first few pages and I pulled out Laurence Krauss"s book, Fear of Physics and reread a bit today. He also mentions the cow/sphere analogy. Thanks for this.

[skmysterion]

I'm so glad that I've discovered this series, thank you! :)

[mandaglodon]

First, I was being lazy to tap in the video after watching this time line, but after tapping on it, It was like.... Why this video ended!
Sir! I learnt a lot today and I am Very Very much Happy that I watched the video which clears all the basic doubts!
Thanks! ♥️🙏Love from India!

[sebastianclarke]

Wow what a series this is turning out to be! Its good to see you've already become very accustomed to presenting your doodles on the ipad, you seemed to be having a lot of fun with it. The whole presentation flowed super smoothly, well done and thank you so much!! I didn't know you were doing Q&A, hopefully I can offer you a few questions relevant to your upcoming topics. Thanks once again for such an amazing presentation, we're all truly humbled by your efforts as one of the worlds leading communicators of science.

[expchrist]

Your sighing at the wave function really shows how much you are willing to respect your other colleagues in the field. Its almost like you are doing your best to acknowledge their POV although you've done so much to educate so many about a much more expansive POV that identifies the wave function as the fundamental underlying reality. Its kind of nice, it demonstrates the type of humanity you have.