The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe | 2. Change

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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.
This is Idea #2, "Change." Which is a less-threatening way of saying "Calculus," which is the mathematics of continuous change.
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@MartinWilson1 4 жыл бұрын

Great. Carroll is entering his Feynman lectures stage of his career where he helps us all understand what is going on, but during his lunch break. Thanks Sean.

@Mirrorgirl492 4 жыл бұрын

I was going to give your comment a Thumbs Up, but it's on '42' so I didn't want to ruin the symmetry ;-)

@ElSachinoo 4 жыл бұрын

@@Mirrorgirl492 what symmetry?

@willnzsurf 4 жыл бұрын

💯

@photinodecay 4 жыл бұрын

@@Mirrorgirl492 But broken symmetries give rise to truly massive results!

@davedouglass438 4 жыл бұрын

Symmetry? - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nL6jnLpoppORlI0.html

@Tylerdwds22 4 жыл бұрын

I feel so privileged to sit in and be a digital student of yours. Thank you so much for these Mr Carroll.

@SG-ig2eu 3 жыл бұрын

Me too man it’s crazy

@vinayak1487 3 жыл бұрын

Dr carroll !!!!!!

@drwhackadoodle360 2 жыл бұрын

@@vinayak1487 Professor*

@AyeCriz Жыл бұрын

⁠⁠@@drwhackadoodle360 cmon guys it’s daddy Carroll 😊

@beausting 4 жыл бұрын

Free lectures from the Caroll himself?? Yes pleass

@blueckaym 4 жыл бұрын

"He didn't even have a telescope - he just looked very very carefully" :D

@kamiodd2873 4 жыл бұрын

"figure-outable" is definitely my word of the day :) Thanks for the light-heartedness of conveying these ideas

@deansundquist9601 4 жыл бұрын

Titling this ‘Change’ is a smart move by a brilliant professor to drop the c word two minutes in. Loving the videos!

@randytighe7150 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Sean, Love that you're sharing your knowledge with those of us who are fascinated with physics but may not have the depth of mathematical knowledge required for the full mathematical treatment of the subject. At the same time you're giving us a glimpse of the math and inspiring us to delve further. You seem to truly respect your audience here. Thanks for doing this.

@TXDomer 4 жыл бұрын

I hope I'm not the only one, but I really look forward to these video releases given the situation going on around me. Thank you so much Sean for sharing your knowledge, especially during this time. Keep up the great work!!!

@willnzsurf 4 жыл бұрын

What'd you do during lockdown? Learn Calculus!

@smith5796 3 жыл бұрын

The sound of Sean Carroll's writing and the way it appears on the screen is really nice.

@seancarroll 4 жыл бұрын

Questions [based on the video] left here over the next day or two will have a chance of being addressed in an upcoming Q&A video!

@anmolmehrotra923 4 жыл бұрын

@SeanCarroll is there an absolute time? Like if we say that speed of light is an absolute speed, can we talk about absolute time. Or is there no absolute time as everything is relative to one another and 'think's' that their time is absolute? #Q&A #QandA

@SuperemeRed 4 жыл бұрын

@SeanCarroll As a graphics artist loving your stuff, the white background is a bit tiresome to look at, especially as the rest of your video is primarily dark-ish. Does the app you are drawing in have to possibility to set a color close to dark chalk board with white chalk for text? It would be easier on they eyes and thematically fit well :) I made a mockup, something like this: imgur.com/WMLhxci

@louisewesterbergh7731 4 жыл бұрын

😍My new idol.

@qzh00k 4 жыл бұрын

What does spectrum mean, when designing a detector?

@derekallen4568 4 жыл бұрын

People give Pascal a bad rap for coming up with Pascals wager. Pascal said pressure on a liquid is equal in all directions, no matter where it is measured. Force is pressure x area. He is the father of modern hydraulics.

@BladeRunner-td8be 4 жыл бұрын

Sean is a great communicator. The tenor and pace at which he speaks combined with the simplicity, enthusiasm and energy he puts forth are about as good as I've seen. And that cat is pretty darn big and definitely well cared for.

@thoel1 4 жыл бұрын

Sean Carroll is honoring us by coming down to the basics, in order to clarify us the implementations of abstracted (thought to be) mathematics in research of the Newtonian properties of nature. Until now such lessons were either too advanced to clearly understand, or too flat in the shake of public simplification. He manages to bridge these aspects and this is great! Thank you Sean!

@shaun906 4 жыл бұрын

sean is so good at explaining this stuff! Considering how advanced his work and teaching is sean takes the same time and effort for all levels of learning. big fan

@ZeedijkMike 3 жыл бұрын

It is pure enjoyment to be allowed in to your home and be educated in such a pleasant way. And the cat is just adorable.

@ralphhebgen7067 Жыл бұрын

One thing that has always impressed me about Sean is his eloquence. I do not think he reads off a teleprompt, and yet his language is lucid, eloquent, rich in vocabulary, nuanced, and fluent. His statements are not interrupted by interjections like “erm”, he does not even use qualifiers like “sort of”, and his videos appear to be entirely unedited. Also his presentations appear entirely natural, they are not polished in a way a public speaker might deliberately design an address to be impactful. The result is a lecture that is easy to follow, and the listener can use all of their attention to focus on the topic Sean is discussing. Top marks from me! I love this series.

@arnesaknussemm2427 4 жыл бұрын

“You can run for President with the motto, ‘change’ but no one is gonna run for President with the motto, ‘calculus’. LOL superb.

@MissEviscerator 4 жыл бұрын

I am so grateful that you have taken the time to make these videos (and so many others). You really have changed my life and made physics accessible to me in a way that no one else has. My apparent inability to comprehend the physical world has always haunted me and I can't put into words how good it feels to finally overcome that! This affects me not only on a personal level but a professional one too: I am researching molecular pathology, and learning physical theory helps me to think in a far more logical manner than I did before! Thank you so much - you're an incredible teacher.

@Epoch11 4 жыл бұрын

Sad when you learn in one hour what a bad teacher can't get across in an entire YEAR! Damn Corona Virus had to happen 20 years too late!

@squatchymcsquatchsquatch3015 4 жыл бұрын

I love your use of the term, "figure-outtable." Definitely why you're one of my faves

@biancapiccoli5588 2 жыл бұрын

Just listening to these lectures walking to my physics class is giving me so much vibes and confidence that I don't know what I'll do when this series will end (sorry for my poor grammar, haven't checked it)

@michaelm3691 4 жыл бұрын

Sean: "No one's going to run for president with the motto of seeking calculus" Andrew Yang: [takes off math cap]

@tomsemo8186 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant.. With my teenagers home, mandatory video. And thay love it. much discussion after. Good stuff.

@integza 4 жыл бұрын

I just love these videos! Finally an interesting podcast :D

@Titousensei 4 жыл бұрын

"Consider a spherical car ..." :-D

@tebogoletshwiti8879 4 жыл бұрын

Titousensei 😂 that is exactly what I thought too

@canopus127 4 жыл бұрын

😁😁😁😁

@g.benoit5114 3 жыл бұрын

"...spherical COW..." is what he says

@mef9327 4 жыл бұрын

My new favorite series of videos. Thank you.

@dashnduke 4 жыл бұрын

I think one of my favorite things about your lectures are how you can insert your (very dry) humor without it distracting from the material. Really appreciate you doing these lectures!

@sebastianwierzba6237 4 жыл бұрын

Love the series Sean, you are a wonderfull friend the internet gave me. Thank you.

@carlosoliva2007 4 жыл бұрын

this is quickly becoming my new favorite youtube series

@amrabdellatif9956 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this series! I love the mix between physics & philosophy!

@nartanapremachandra3052 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these lectures Sean. I’m really enjoying them. And the podcast.

@chicopolar7666 Жыл бұрын

Love your podcast Professor Carroll. Thank you for all you did.

@iamtheiconoclast3 3 жыл бұрын

This is brilliant! Just discovered it and already recommended to a friend.

@AlexFeature 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sean for this series. I love your lectures. I haven't touched a physics textbook in 30 years but this is absolutely mesmerizing to me.

@mlee2020 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Professor Carroll. This is what education is all about.

@kccust 4 жыл бұрын

Carroll's enthusiasm for science is contagious. We are so fortunate to have brilliant people like Sean to inspire.

@Krypto_Knite 4 жыл бұрын

This new series is your best yet. Thanks!

@KingZarathus 4 жыл бұрын

Such a brilliant description of the concepts behind calculus! I also love the dichotomy of an amazing science educator and physicist showing off their cat and apologizing if they destroy the green screen in the middle of the lecture.

@TheHogan883 4 жыл бұрын

I love these videos. Thank you for making them.

@canopus127 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sean! You are one of the coolest professors I have ever seen. You explain the stuffs of physics very innocently. Thank you again!

@robcantu7019 4 жыл бұрын

I’m truly appreciative of the knowledge you are sharing. I enjoy your videos and talks and always come away more enlightened. These big idea videos are wonderful. This is my second time around watching this series. Thanks for all you do to inform average curious people like me.

@spnhm34 4 жыл бұрын

This made me feel a lot smarter than I actually am.

@akumar7366 4 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy your presentation style, thank you for your briiliant videos.

@Artie_D 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sean, you are doing a fantastic public service. Lots of people’s are trapped, have plenty time on their hands and unfortunately in many cases lots of doomed & gloomed thoughts in their heads. These lectures help people to distract themselves from those thoughts and learn something they might never had a chance to learn in regular, mundane life. THANK YOU.

@Bronett 4 жыл бұрын

For me, not to get a nervous twitch from the word "calculus" and numb off, is already something - but actually getting a sense of what is (might be) going on, is an absolute pleasure - Thank you so much!

@cmacmenow 4 жыл бұрын

Just what I needed! Thank you Sean.

@Ferml20 4 жыл бұрын

Keep them coming, I'll watch them all !!!

@radical137 3 жыл бұрын

My new favorite physics teacher, I will watch the whole series playlist. He says he is not going to get into much detail, but he ends up teaching you a metric ton of interesting detail. You should watch in order if you have the time because he refers to previous lectures often.

@Ballistichydrant 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. Really enjoyed your most recent book. Thanks for that too🌞 Best wishes

@JRichardson711 4 жыл бұрын

Love the cat. Thank you for showing us Caliban. Reviewing the greatest physics discoveries of the human is great too.

@UtraVioletDreams 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this memory refresh! I love it.

@chrisstockdill9085 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite teacher ever, mysteriously, you make me feel safe to learn, safe to feel emotionally moved by the beauty of Calculus and my growing feeling that the Cosmos embraces my humanity while I embrace it. Thank you. Live Long. Prosper . . . .

@waynearrington6727 3 жыл бұрын

The best science communicator and educator I have ever encountered. Really appreciate the flow of words and ideas; the absence of ahhhh, you know and all the other fillers that people use when public speaking.

@timothykeech7394 4 жыл бұрын

I have watched many videos on Physics by eminent scientists and they are fascinating. (I used to teach the subject in High School) but Sean has such an engaging and fluent style of delivery. He is an extraordinarily good communicator and probably doesn't even realise it himself. Thank you Sean for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm in such an entertaining way.

@Lalalacici 4 жыл бұрын

Please, please do not stop posting these videos!

@steadyeddy6526 4 жыл бұрын

NICE lecture. Clear and concise.

@j.gairns 3 жыл бұрын

Superb series! I am enjoying them immensely

@konsamtambradhwaja3870 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Prof.Sean C.

@arnoldleaf4521 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff , thanks Professor . Between u, Professor Green n all the other great scientists producing these great videos , it really helps make this tragedy a little less traumatic. Understanding the world at this time is confusing to say the least ! N getting a chance to learn from such high level teachers on a regular basis really takes the edge off !

@yellibell6325 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these great videos - and thanks for making them free on TouTube! I am enjoying indulging my childhood fantasy of becoming an astrophysicist. During this time of stress and change it is wonderful to take the perspective of the universe for a little while and to take my mind off of the uncertainty by challenging my brain to learn new things.

@nikolaki 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! My mind boggles at the power of human thought. Also, amazingly, Archimedes came up with his own version of integral calculus.

@PaulMcMinotaur 2 жыл бұрын

The Egyptians must have used some form of calculus to approximate pi

@jjson775 3 жыл бұрын

I have studied all this but enjoy your explanation very much.

@vikranttyagiRN 4 жыл бұрын

Sean Carroll and Brian Greene, two of the greatest physicists of today's times circulating knowledge in these times is hugely applausible

@mattgraves3709 Жыл бұрын

Greatest playlist ever

@blueckaym 4 жыл бұрын

18:50 "here's my version of a car... " , still better than Cyber-Truck

@bobpalka2085 4 жыл бұрын

Would hate to admit the percentage of this lecture I understood, BUT what little I could comprehend was a step up in my education. So much more to learn so little time.

@NalitaQubit Ай бұрын

Dr. Carrol, thank you for a great lecture. Cat and Physics, my 2 highlights of the day.

@elendor3428 2 жыл бұрын

Robert California coming with the fire! I joke, honestly really appreciate these videos, amazing stuff!

@scotth462 4 жыл бұрын

very interesting to me today with numbers. love learning this stuff.

@amedeofilippi6336 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding lesson indeed.

@joelvirolainen590 4 жыл бұрын

This is a great format for you.

@timohearn4454 4 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh we got to meet your cat :) I love how you can interrupt some "deep" thoughts to introduce us to your cat :)

@ayushdhingra855 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sean It is one of best lecture and the these series Respect

@gildastigliano7936 4 жыл бұрын

I love these podcasts; maybe I will finally "get' math...such a good visual teacher for a visual learner! thank you , Sean Carroll!!! very much

@minaghavimi4843 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome examples to describe derivatives and integrals

@edwardlee2794 3 жыл бұрын

thanks dr. Sean . calculus haunted me since hi school and worse, continues to college. now decades and decades later after this lecture , it's more human like. and I can claim I understand it,even though I would still avoid a calculus problem. thanks for the effort and keep up with the good work. from HKER worldwide

@miguelrodriguez-ht3ct 4 жыл бұрын

great simple explanation, problably if I'd been taught this way calculus, I would have not suffer so much

@victort6740 2 жыл бұрын

It's rare to find a nice teacher explaining things. These videos are much better than what I had at university.

@simatbirch 4 жыл бұрын

This is so great.

@Taquilou 2 жыл бұрын

I’ve watched to many physics videos on KZfaq but this channel thanks to the Professor work is abSolutely thrilling. It should be mandatory to educate people around the world, with this kind of knowledge, peace on earth would come fast

@patrickmchargue7122 4 жыл бұрын

Nice refresher.

@pipertripp 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for these. I'm teaching myself Mechanics with the MIT Opencourseware and it's fun to watch these as a way to sort of check my understanding.

@vcothur7 4 жыл бұрын

We all got bamboozled into taking a calculas class. Not that I'm complaining.

@nicklezetc 4 жыл бұрын

Dope talks Carroll

@George4943 4 жыл бұрын

A more heuristic understanding of integral: The odometer is the integral sum of all the speeds. Changing fast at high speed and not at all when stopped. A mathematician will not pick up a hitchhiker because he doesn't want to integrate their weight over distance in fuel.

@adge610220 4 жыл бұрын

Great stuff. Thank you.

@DickJohnson3434 4 жыл бұрын

Great series.

@peterb9481 2 жыл бұрын

Very informative and useful. And lovely cat :)

@TheJonlamb12 4 жыл бұрын

It’s so encouraging that someone as brilliant as Sean Carroll can’t always recall things like Kepler’s laws.

@vorsankoy3548 3 жыл бұрын

Impeccable info ! Btw Nice to see the cat in this video so cute😍

@psmoyer63 4 жыл бұрын

It is an excellent feeling to be your student.

@jcliggett53 4 жыл бұрын

I actually remembered (from 46 years ago when I last had a math class) that phrase "the area under the curve" - but I thought it described the derivative, not the integral. Anyway, thanks Dr. Carroll. Brilliant!

@PaulinaFriedman1974 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for reminding me why I fell in love with Physics!!! BTW, our Mathematical Analysis professor told us that before he understood Integration, he'd done over 500 integrals, using all the methods he shared with us. I wasn't as bright, it must have been at least a thousand examples. Good times :)

@johnjoseph9823 4 жыл бұрын

brilliant.My favourite subject

@pinball1970 4 жыл бұрын

23.09 pleased about that, I was thinking he's not made a mistake, I just can't see it, it's Sean Carroll!

@guvencanozturk 4 жыл бұрын

I wish you were my teacher when I was a student. I finally understand what is calculus for.

@dennisdonovan4837 4 жыл бұрын

Kudos Sean … This is truly an engaging series you’ve begun … I really appreciate the format (note: I would like to have you speak to the graphic you’re sitting in front of - it’s fascinating) … I once cohabitated with a “Tuxedo” cat who I referred to as “Trillian” (a character in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy”) who was every bit as “disinterested” and tended to sleep a lot … 👍🏽