Sean Carroll
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Podcast Appearances
Racial incarceration inequalities.
That's another one.
This is the philosophy part of the answer, which is that there is a real world out there.
I mean, there is objective physical reality, but there's also the picture, the image, the model of the world that our brain puts together.
And they're related, but they're not the same.
And our brain is doing a lot of work to take all the many sense inputs that it has and sew them together into coherent picture.
One right now during this episode.
Yeah, I'm almost done.
No, I mean, we don't assume that you know any math.
We teach you the math, so I teach you calculus and what have you.
And then you move on and you learn tensors and differential geometry and Einstein's equation for general relativity.
And their self-esteem.
I love the public.
I want them to feel like they can get this stuff into their heads.
It's not so hard, really.
And it would be quantum mechanics and quantum field theory and particles and symmetries and gauge theory.