An Evening with Sean Carroll: Quanta and Fields

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An Evening with Sean Carroll: Quanta and Fields

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On Friday, May 17th, 2024, the Midtown Scholar Bookstore hosted award-winning theoretical physicist Sean Carroll for a presentation and signing on his new book, Quanta and Fields: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe.
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Quanta and Fields, the second book of Sean Carroll’s already internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, is an adventure into the bare stuff of reality.
Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to sharing physics with a broad audience, one that goes beyond analogies to show how physicists really think. He cuts to the bare mathematical essence of our most profound theories, explaining every step in a uniquely accessible way.
Quantum field theory is how modern physics describes nature at its most profound level. Starting with the basics of quantum mechanics itself, Sean Carroll explains measurement and entanglement before explaining how the world is really made of fields. Fundamental ideas like spin, symmetry, Feynman diagrams, and the Higgs mechanism are explained for real, not just through amusing stories. Beyond Newton, beyond Einstein, and all the intuitive notions that have guided homo sapiens for millennia, this book is a journey to a once unimaginable truth about what our universe is.
Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, and Fractal Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He is host of the Mindscape podcast, and author of From Eternity to Here, The Particle at the End of the Universe, The Big Picture, and Something Deeply Hidden. He has been awarded prizes and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the American Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of London, and many others. He lives in Baltimore with his wife, writer Jennifer Ouellette.
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@BrianFedirko 3 ай бұрын

Sean Carrolll is a precious human being with the best intent and a giant in educated thought. He is one figure in our history I may place more trust in than most. Please think about what is said here long and hard, don't dismiss it. There's important truth here on many levels, and our future can gain from it's ponder. Gr8! Peace ☮💜Love

@CurtOntheRadio 3 ай бұрын

I appreciate him as a (very good) example of a human being.

@MrFaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 3 ай бұрын

bookstore with better audio than most podcasts lol :D

@techteampxla2950 2 ай бұрын

Yes it was better then the Nobel prize videos 😂

@garyhuntress6871 3 ай бұрын

Fantastic video for a Saturday morning. The best compliment I can give is that I watched the entire video at 1X speed.

@williamjmccartan8879 2 ай бұрын

Always enjoy your presentations Sean, thank you for sharing your time and work, and thank you to the library for hosting this event, peace

@techteampxla2950 2 ай бұрын

DrCarro how do you find the time , you’re amazing ! Thanks for this video all involved! I have been following him for the past 10 years and I had no idea why I was alive , what all this was, or anything! Now after long and hard studying multiple people like him, Lee Smolin, David Albert, Ian Xel Lungold, Tim Maud, too many to mention in the community. Im not lost anymore , and I’m not a genius they just help you figure it all out.

@MoebiusPan 3 ай бұрын

Excellent talk, thank you!

@andrebaele8823 3 күн бұрын

Sean Carrol is good teacher. You understand it.

@Jgill99911 3 ай бұрын

he explains even complex things in such a way that i cant help but pay attention and love every second of it🥰😀☺

@paulc96 3 ай бұрын

Great Talk - as usual. For those who appreciate Prof. Carroll, it is well worth becoming a subscriber to the Mindscape podcast - as mentioned in the Introduction.

@mehdibaghbadran3182 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for perfect explanation of the subject’s

@TroyRubert 3 ай бұрын

The same day I got my signed copy!

@ValidatingUsername 2 ай бұрын

Working towards making sure all fundamentals are deeply understood for anyone who is even slightly interested in the field until they need to research at the cutting edge and the model breaks down slightly. Always an honour to listen to him speak.

@HarryNicNicholas 3 ай бұрын

outstanding scientist. very good communicator. i'd love to see janna levin, sean, sabine hossenfelder, roger penrose, brian cox, alan guth all in the same room. and others!

@bad.D 2 ай бұрын

On chapter seven of the first Biggest Ideas book (Riemannian geometry) and I have to say, has to be up there with classics like Wheeler's "A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime" and Hawking's "A Brief History of Time". Approachable, concise, yet definitely pulls no punches! I am looking forward to reading "Quanta and Fields", cheers Dr. Carroll!

@charleswood2182 Ай бұрын

Interesting presentation as always. I want to note that when Sean gives description for a vibration that is a particle, he seems to me to explain by saying what a thing is like, qualitative description known to be incapable of parsing the paradox of dual aspects of light. A physics of measurement seems reliably well developed. But a physics of meaning isn't more now than speculation in philosophy.

@showmewhyiamwrong 4 күн бұрын

It occurs to me, as it probably has to many others, that a natural extension of QFT could imply that the wave function of the Universe may oscillate in an infinite number of possible ways which manifests to us as a distinctly detectable set of Fields, given our ability to detect through our unique Senses. I.e we discern a unique set of fields on the infinite spectrum of possible field possibilities in much the same way we can detect say the minuscule visible portion of the Electromagnetic Spectrum or the range of sounds our ears can detect, etc. If this is correct then the Uncertainty exhibited at the quantum level of investigation is not at all surprising but would be a perfectly natural expected result. We ask the Universe a specific question and it replies, in the only way it knows how, with the following answer…”It depends on what you mean but here is one possibility”. I have purchased Sean's book and have ordered the other 2 in the series so I can become better acquainted with the current state of where things stand.

@paperrobe111 3 ай бұрын

Interesting. WAY over my head

@MidtownScholarBookstore 3 ай бұрын

This video editor's, too! But isn't he a great speaker?

@MBSilva 3 ай бұрын

@@MidtownScholarBookstore He has been helping me fall asleep for years now. And I mean it in a good way, I like to fall asleep while reflecting on the ideas he explains

@robertmolldius8643 3 ай бұрын

@@MBSilva He helps me fall asleep every single night! 😄 And just like you say, in a good way! Sean Carroll is very knowledgeable and good at teaching and he is really passionate about spreading knowledge! 🙂👍

@techteampxla2950 2 ай бұрын

It takes time sometimes people understand things differently for better and worse, don’t ever give up and continue learning,

@NicholasWilliams-kd3eb 3 ай бұрын

The universe literally actually loves us, in the butt of course, that's why things are so hard. It's flux flows through us.

@MrClarence1126 3 ай бұрын

I like Carroll's books, but I prefer audio books; not sure if I should get this one that way.

@billbaggins1688 Ай бұрын

sean has narrated it. so it will be available for you soon.

@MrClarence1126 3 ай бұрын

Maybe it's the microphone, but I'm amazed that I don't hear any laughter from the audience. I find Carroll funny.

@MidtownScholarBookstore 3 ай бұрын

It was a great crowd! Our mics just tend to not pick up much of the noise in the room.

@ryoung1111 3 ай бұрын

22:39 That’s 120 degrees, not 180.

@zastrzyk 3 ай бұрын

if u think 3d it might be 180 ;)

@billbaggins1688 Ай бұрын

He says 120, which is correct.

@bobjohnson1097 16 күн бұрын

@@billbaggins1688He says it incorrectly first,

@John-pp2jr 2 ай бұрын

22:40 120deg not 180deg?

@billbaggins1688 Ай бұрын

180 degrees would turn it ulside down. Sean is rotating it so that one of the sides become the base. 60 degrees in the corner, so a further 120 degrees of rotation required to do that. :)

@bobjohnson1097 16 күн бұрын

@billbaggins1688 He obviously misspoke. It's 120.

@CurtOntheRadio 3 ай бұрын

I really like popular science though I usually want more detail, more of the real stuff (I hate analogy!) I also really like Sean in particular. However, these last two 'biggest ideas' works leave me flummoxed and bamboozled. I guess I'm not up to it (no shame there, I feel) and it's back to the lame analogy-level stuff for me. :D

@bryandraughn9830 3 ай бұрын

I know exactly how you feel. I read Frank wilczeck's book "longing for the harmonies" and I just couldn't get it. But, I read it a few more times and sometimes I would read a page or paragraph several times because It was so interesting and I am delighted to tell you that lightbulbs started clicking on! I wasn't even sure how I was beginning to grasp these concepts but it was just happening. I waited a couple of years and Read the entire book again and it was smooth sailing and well worth the effort. Analogies can be distracting but to dismiss them all as a rule is not a great idea. They are often a good place to stand so you can peer a bit further to land on the next idea. Don't believe that you have this limitation. You are smarter than you think. I promise.

@CurtOntheRadio 3 ай бұрын

@@bryandraughn9830 Well, it's kind of you for the encouragement. And concepts are mostly fine, I'm happy to deal with that. But all such concepts are an attempt at transforming mathematics into words and thoughts and absent the actual math I feel it's all just analogy. And those are always imperfect - one would use the math otherwise? And I just don't/can't follow the maths. The fault is mine, not Sean's. You're right in a sense though: as a youth I found relativity mind-boggling but having spent 30+ years with it (at the level of words, not maths) I no longer find it surprising or strange. I suppose folks like Sean just never experienced life without his relationship to numbers and equations. So when he says 'you can do it' I'm sure he believes it. I'm more pessimistic. :D