Sean Carroll
speaker
26,727 appearances
49 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 6d ago
Sean Carroll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's going to happen soon.
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Big disruption.
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Sorry about that.
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It won't really be a disruption for anybody.
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And then the benefits of being
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a Patreon supporter are that you get to ask the questions for the AMAs and also you get ad-free versions of the podcast as well as just the feeling that you're supporting something that you like and giving some money back.
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So many, many thanks to everyone who does that and has been doing that for years now.
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It absolutely keeps me going.
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So with that, let us all go.
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Eric says, would an alcubier drive be able to escape a black hole?
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Okay, so this is a sneakily good question.
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I don't mean sneaky in the sense that, you know, we shouldn't expect it to be good.
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But at first, when I read it, I was almost tempted to not include it among the ones that I'm going to answer just because I didn't think I had much interesting to say about it.
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But the more I thought about it, uh there is intr something interesting to say, even if the interesting thing to say is that I'm not quite sure what the answer is.
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Let me go back for
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those of you who don't know what we're talking about here.
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Um
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Back in the nineteen nineties, I think it was, Miguel Alcubier, who is a Mexican physicist, proposed what is known as a warp drive.
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So the idea is, like back in the nineties, we were arguing about wormholes, you know.
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People had thought about wormholes, and Kip Thorne and his collaborators had pointed out they could be used for time travel.
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