Particles, Fields and The Future of Physics - A Lecture by Sean Carroll

Sean Carroll of CalTech speaks at the 2013 Fermilab Users Meeting.
Audio starts at 19 sec, Lecture starts at 2:00

[YogiMcCaw]

Sean is that rare combo of of deep science and superb public communicator. Science needs more like him.

[HeyYaKnow]

Dr. Sean Carroll is an intellectual black belt.

[raymondlai]

Dear Fermilab =)

I would like to say, thank you, for taking the time and effort to both upload and share this video with the youtube family =).

I hope you have a nice day, Fermilab =).

Kind Regards

Raymond Lai (Member of the Physics Family)

[misterright]

I started to watch this casually but it grabbed and held me for the whole lecture. This is one of Dr Carroll's best!

[helenel]

I'm a layperson. I found Dr Carroll's recommendation/insistence on viewing the quantum world as fields rather than as particles (apologies to the physicists who are offended by this inept phrasing) to be very helpful in trying to understand this topic.

[antoniosalvador]

your clarity in explaining things makes your lecture so addictive. i almost listen to this several times a week. thank you.

[AndrejKarpathy]

This is the best explanation of a lot of fundamental physics and intuitions I have seen so far. Lots of talk of vibrating, interacting fields!

[Raddland]

The analogies in this lecture are totally new to me, and very effective. His portion of Field Theory is the new bar for all lecturers from now on!

[MaxWindshear]

Great upload! I am so impressed with Sean Carroll. His talks always have a good pace and he delivers concepts in a direct and understandable way. I love his sense of humor too.

[Hexanitrobenzene]

Sean Carroll has a gift for explaining physics, a wonderful sense of humour, even his voice is very pleasant :)

[kidzbopisstraightfire]

I love the fact that he worked in "Miracles" by ICP...the fact that Sean is even aware of this song is hilarious. Funny guy, obviously very brilliant

[IanLindstrom]

He explains so much, so well, with so little time. Particle at the End of the Universe is a great book. You know you're in Illinois when 1:06:00.

[uberhikari]

I've watched this lecture 3 different times in other videos and it never gets old.

[jaylambert]

Best science communicator I've found to this day. I feel much, much, much more deeply educated after listening to him explain a topic than others I've ever heard. He has a very unique talent for simplifying topics to the level of the layman without "dumbing down" the science - or more specifically, he can simplify a topic without doing so in a way that sacrifices scientific accuracy and rigor in order to make it fit the audience's prejudices and past mis-education. Or, maybe I should say he clears up misconceptions as he speaks while others I listen to try to just pass over the misconceptions so they can put it on our "level." Sean instead raises consciousness and understanding so we can be properly educated.

[thekkl]

Sean Carroll has got to be the best physics-for-the-non-physicist guy out there today. Einstein said to make things as simple as possible, but no simpler, and it's unfortunate that Michio Kaku, Neil Degrasse Tyson, etc seem to have missed the second half of that.

[anastasiszampas]

This guy is really smart! It's not just the physics; it's the spontaneous, resourceful humour!

[GeoffBernard]

I think this is Sean's best talk. I've never heard Quantum Field Theory explained so well.
It's these sort of higher-level talks for the everyday physicists that I believe will lead to unified theory of all dimensions & forces.

[wrqnine]

Sean Carroll is a national treasure. He is a great teacher and a great mind all in one. What he says about patience and physicists is true, but he seems to have found a pragmatic loophole through which he can communicate effectively. In earnestness there are clues that exist through human pathos, though not all that is science, it often provides more information than the fundamentality of boilerplate. Thanks for this.

[adithyakaravadi]

Best explanation of modern physics, clear and concise. Loved the humor too! Thanks Fermilab and Sean!

[gamesbok]

A particle accelerator visible from an aircraft would not have the required James Bond Evil Genius quality required at CERN.

A hollow volcano would have been perfect, but volcanos are in short supply in Europe, except in Italy, but Italy was ruled out as neutrinos travel faster than light down there.