anyone else here after sean mentioned how this blew up in the most recent ama

Yay, new AMA... I love these, and listen to them over and over all the time.

KZfaq randomly loaded this a few days ago and I am hooked. I can't sleep well and am not a big fan of visual content. These AMA seasions are entertaining and informative, while playing long enough to relax.

My take: I like your podcast bc I’m an avid learner for life and also bc your harmonious voice is just a bonus. I don’t support YT channels bc I don’t feel is a safe place for my plastic. May someone can enlighten me how. And last Professor Caroll TVM for taking the time and effort for sharing a life of knowledge with us.

Even when you don't think you have a good answer for a question, the insight into your thought process and how you think about problems is very interesting and (I like to think) helps me learn how to think about things.

You are the best.

Thanks Sean, as always an amazing conversation.

3 hour AMA video.. Sean is a professional high level professor and author and he s still doing this pod and AMA for us. THANK YOU!

it was trippy. I was sleeping and this video autoplayed. and Your speech was basically feeding the creation of my dream partially. It was like You were putting what You wanted into the A.I. randomizer and it was partially building the scenario that was playing out

I love your long format podcast! I listen to each of them repeatedly until you publish the new one.

Always good. Thanks

Very good episode. Once again marsh is completely messed up this year here in Canada. Its supposed to be -10 C., but it will be 10 degree celcius for 2 weeks. Never experienced anything like that in my entire life. When I was young we had snowy Christmas every years, now its rare to have snow on Christmas.

So funny that this episode went viral Sean. Hope it gets more people aware of you and this podcast because it's one of the most intellectually stimulating ones of them out there! Thanks for sharing your perspective sir!

I'm ok with the adds. Thanks for being here

What if two entangled particles were sent billions of Light Years without ever interacting with another particle. How would they know what branch of the wave function they are on, to interact with anything. How would anything on the other side of the universe know if they’re on the same branch?

I have been asking physicists the same question for more years than I care to remember, and have you to receive a consistent, or even clear, answer: "What is energy?" It's no good telling me energy is a capacity to do work, since matter can't be made of a 'capacity'. For the same reason it can't merely be a calculating device (which response several physicists tried to palm me off with a few years ago). No one seems to know...

this is soooo good

The example of throwing a book into a Black Hole to represent information always confused me and it took forever to get past the distraction of trying to figure out what the definition of "information" was. Perhaps I was just in the donut hole of the target audience at the time. You are a great communicator and I enjoy your lectures.

i'm pretty sure oil is hydrophobic. as per everyday experience, oil and water repel each other. as molecules, they energetically favor being in the company of their own kind. as fluids, they favor minimizing the surface area of the interface between the two. so oil globs submerged in water favor a spherical shape. and oil spherules favor merging to form bigger spherules, because the resulting surface area is sub-additive. in a vessel an oil glob will especially favor merging with an oil layer where the sub-additivity is maximized. still, i'm at a loss as to how to explain all this from the viewpoint of maximizing entropy. halp?

Here's my question. As a net calculation, does life increase the speed of entropy within a closed system?

I love the way you tackled the question equating light waves as simply probability waves with the Everett response lol BAM!

Sean is at once utterly careful in his wording yet utterly not pedantic. It's thrilling!

I don't understand how the black hole event horizon gathers all that is internal to any item that falls inside. There would be no breakdown and analysis of what's inside an object that falls in, until it is totally broken apart at the singularity. Can someone explain how the person crossing over the event horizon and not noticing anything different has an exact copy of not just his mass and external image but all internal contents at that point? I also never understood the white hole hypothesis. Wouldn't the black hole's mass evaporate quickly if matter/energy was ejected just as quickly out of a white hole it was connected to somewhere else?

I always imagine the expansion of the universe is caused by extremely large black holes outside of our visibility and just pulling space like a table cloth being pulled at all sides by sumo wrestlers. Lol

I live in baltimore we havent had snow for a while

I think your explanation on fusion bombs was off. We already use fusion bombs. MOST of our nuclear weapons are probably fusion bombs. But as the asker said, they use a smaller fission bomb to activate the fusion bomb. We don't have problems creating fusion bombs, we have problems with controlled fusion. I may have just misunderstood your answer.

Please, if you can, do make time stamps for these "Ask Me ANything" episodes.

I love how mind expanding your attitude and recordings are. Thanks for balancing out the sensationalism and melodrama.

What about weather modification?

Interesting, my gut feeling since childhood, when I first learned about black holes, has been that black holes could grow. I didn't know this was discovered just now.

That's quite a bit of information on dark energy considering we don't know if it exists. We should be addressing the many problems and contradictions within Big Bang Cosmology and resolving those before speculating.

I fell asleep while watching yt, and ended up here lol. First one to watch the whole video I think 😂

I tend to be very judgemental, but then I also feel people are with myself... but I least I try to do this on moral basis. Perhaps I've answered my own question? I heard that Latin to "sin..." means to 'miss the mark!'

Sean, will you agree to debate Eric Weinstein regarding “quantum gravity”?

Man i will love if you make time stamps in these "AskME" eps

Ultimately the questions is… how did energy act before the Higgs mechanism?! That will tell you if the universe started with a black hole or not.

Why so many dislikes?! 🤔

Dr. Carroll there are two types of people in the world.; People who return their shopping carts properly, and people who leave them willy nilly in the parking lot. Which kind of person are you?😇👹

Hello good sir!👋 A potential brute fact is that the Pistons had 12 time All-Star Isiah “Zeke” Thomas, in those earlier championships! 😜

Zero snow in Baltimore until now? It's snowed 3 times in Dallas 😂

What if nothing is moving? There is on and off of different particles in space like a giant lake’s surface. Even we are part of it. The universe could be just the exitation of different fields. The perceived “movement” are just waves in the matter’s field.

Wooohooo

Omg I did not know Sean Carroll lives in Baltimore.

Steve crothers EU 2017 black hole lecture explains all of this brilliantly.

James Woods sure knows a lot about space.

i think the bigbang was the end of the biggining

Guys we fucked this place up! Hell yeah! Sir, I'm being told we're at the wrong spot. It's the farm next door. Oh😮... Tell them, please except our deepest apologies. On behalf of Australia.

I put the existence of God on the same level as the existence of Santa Clause. I don’t know any adult that will say that they are agnostic when they talk about the existence of Santa Clause.

In multiverse theory, is the branching faster than the speed of light?

"You are Laplaces Demon, congratulations." Said in a sense of exasperation? Ha ha ha!

It would be quite arbitrary, subjective, and obviously with a huge recency bias to claim that today's world climate is optimal--superior to all others historical or possible--and therefore must be preserved for all time at all cost.

California has gotten more snow that the Midwest. Think about it

In the interest of Patreon perks & no extra work, you can trim back what’s provided for free. I’ve never been on patreon, and consider it fair to get less. As much as I like AMAs, those could be restricted to Patreon supporters and everyone just gets the interviews. You’re only answering their questions anyway.

Think the Chinese would help Scotland to get independence from UK (England)

48 Laws of Power

Can black holes be matter at absolute zero being gravity would be so strong atoms would not be able to move?

JAMES WOOD?

Nothing is ever the way it used to be.

Does he look at an aquarium while he speaks in this podcast for three hours?

Black Holes would eat the marerials in space, and space is coming between galaxies.

if the big bang created time, time and space are two faces of the same coin, is space expanding into time?

2:50:45 must be the worst question i ever heard on this podcast. it´s not even a question really it´s more an accusation. do you use fancy physics words just to impress people or buid social status? and what do you expect your audience to understand of your fancy science mumbo jumbo. first or all aren´t you a patron? have you listened to this podcast before? that´s what´s so great about this, that not everything is dumbed down to the nth degree to the point of oversimplifying and beeing wrong. there are thousands science for babies podcasts out there, we don´t need another one. this science for grown ups is precious. and yes as you should be be able to tell if you´re a patron, sean relies on your curiousity, on the ability and impulse to look stuff up you don´t understand, rather than to turn off in disgust that somebody talks about stuff you don´t understand. it would be mind numbingly tedious to sit through the 100th explanation of something basic for the slowest kids in the class.

Toxins is what we need to worry about! And by the way, we have had technology since 1950 for free energy and we could have stopped using fossil fuels.

So could Siddhartha see every comment I made on the internet and see if Billy carson has been extrapolating on my comments as if they are his own notions?

Black holes are like a battery for UFOS

I m perplexed why people are upset / surprised that things are changing. Change is the only constant. So why is that climate should be excluded from changes…..

200 yars of standardization and whew ya know it all prepare for god that is hat you should do this is natural

Why can no one on KZfaq give me the answer to my stick puzzle? If you push a short stick 1 inch in 1 second, how long would it take a very long stick to ring a bell on the moon. If the bell rings in less than 1.3 seconds, did we just break the speed of light?

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Correlation does not prove causation. I believe in global warming, but anecdotal evidence is weaker evidence than statistical evidence. That said, love ya.

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1:20 Why mention global warming and hot winter correlation at all?

“Mmkay”

Who cuts your hair? 😂

... for our vote ... the black holes are not tied to space-time, because they are really 'not', and yet - they 'are' ... so, to the observer effect: they 'are' - a 'some', an 'entity'. To the natural mechanism of the workwheel, as it is - they are simply the natural reset points, that are necessary to keep the system in the balance. A free gift cleaning mechanism. Original pre-universe, as we all know, was just the pre-creation / the pre-forms to the today's basic elements / and pure: plasma, that was in the primordial, prefect balance. Similar to whilrlpools in the rivers, the black holes, and same as in bernouli's law, which basically states that every closed system will try (and make) to reset itself at the end, responding that way, to every disturbance. However it is a good start that science admits that the current workwheel system, a.k.a. the known 'universe' is a larger than a human mind can understand, in which - there is a (healthy) hope. As the whole 'system' evolves further into what is unavoidalble (and final) multi-complexity, and their expressions - mr. Sean here, is for once again correct here - it's a fantastic trip, with a lot of permissivity in it, which actually - may be the best thing around happening, and even the main reason 'because'. And also - that does not matter much 'what' the blackholes are, but it is a lot more important, what is the most neglected by the observers, and that is - what acually: we, the observers, and experiencers of the universe: are. We, as a one form, in which the universe becomes aware of itself and of it's current state, and everything else, right from - right there. :).

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It snowed more this year in Prescott than the last 5 years. Also, in areas where it has been much colder, climate activists are saying it’s due to global warming causing colder winters.

Like number 222

How does one have a conversation to someone who thinks you shouldn’t exist? Yes. Fascism is definitely here. Denial won’t make it go away.

Yeah, nah.

Leave all the stupid comments Sean!

U would look good with no hair

So what weather is “normal”? How can we tell since we have such a small sample size?

Broad arrow. Interesting... as soon as you said that, I pictured the Broad Arrow Cafe in Tasmania, which is in Port Arthur (a historical torture type jail penal colony )... then you mentioned Tasmania and the broad arrow cave carvings.. i live in Australia and never knew about those ...anyways and in and around that Broad Arrow cafe on 28th april 1996, Australia had its worst firearm mass shooting to date resulting in 35 deaThs where men women and children locals and tourists were slaughtered by gunfire shot with military type precison and accuracy ..Body parts splattered and flung everywhere according to a local tour guide.. An innocent simpleton went to jail with no trial but the entire thing was orchestrated by our corrupt government in order for then PM Johnny Howard to get his 33rd degree Freemason ring and to recall ban and disarm all Australian citizens of all guns and firearms -which he did. Interesting ..

Again, I believe the big bang theory and Genesis and Darwins theory of evolution are all correct like in Genesis it says on the first day, let there be light ,now we know the earth at this point had not been formed, so how long is a day I think they use day for lack of a better word like eons or phases. It was much much longer than just 24 hours so now that being said. Darwin and Genesis are both correct.

Get into a technical discussion with Eric Weinstein, like he got into the weeds with Sir Roger Penrose...it would be glorious

yes, ok. i don't always remember there might be children listening. cooling my jets.

I have something you could feel in your bones

I’d like to mention that science and religion are likely to be the same providing your perspective is relative by understanding how things have been described like in Genesis It says on the first day let there be light now there was no day yet since the Earth had not been formed, so how long was a day in genesis I believe it was much much more than just 24 hours I think they should’ve used something like eons or phase and that being said, that Darwins theory of evolution is also right because both took a great amount of time

How many of you have had a white Xmas and how many of your parents had a white Xmas 😊

NEVER TRUST "EXPERTS"

If anything was a human being, what gender would it be? Remember there can be only one!

At least the earth becomes more habitable during the warmer interglacials. The land surface is already much greener than it was a few years ago. So at least we're heading in the right direction... Gaining an 1/8" yearly increase in ocean levels isn't really a problem

How to completely shred your own credibility in 2 sentences: “Do [cats] have self-consciousness, where they think of their own intentions and desires? Probably not.” Only automatons see animals as automatons.

It's not climate change. It's climate fluctuations. In thirty years from now, we'll be singing a different tune because we do not have all the required information details to make such predictions.

Imaginative BS

Why not be more critical on actual main stream scientific theories? Hardly we see you being more than a science teacher, almost swearing on your own feet that current theories are the best explanations for the existing data. History shows us that most scientific theories are short-lived. The molecular mechanics of eukaryotic cells are too COMPLEX to be explained by a young universe 13.7 billion years old. Most galaxies (the tips of their arms) take about 1 billion years to complete one rotation. How did a structure as stupidly COMPLEX as the Milky Way make only 13 complete rotations?

How can a guy be so nice, and intelligent and not understand that there is a God.

Egomaniac