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Sean Carroll

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
17010 total appearances

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StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

Yes.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

Racial incarceration inequalities.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

That's another one.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

Yes.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

This is the philosophy part of the answer, which is that there is a real world out there.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

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.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

And they're related, but they're not the same.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

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.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

Okay.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

One right now during this episode.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

Yeah, I'm almost done.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

No, I mean, we don't assume that you know any math.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

We teach you the math, so I teach you calculus and what have you.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

And then you move on and you learn tensors and differential geometry and Einstein's equation for general relativity.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

And their self-esteem.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

I love the public.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

I want them to feel like they can get this stuff into their heads.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

It's not so hard, really.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

And it would be quantum mechanics and quantum field theory and particles and symmetries and gauge theory.

StarTalk Radio
Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll

Love it.