Sean Carroll

Yeah, I'm still chasing it because there is the universe.

The universe is telling us what it does.

It's just up to us to figure it out.

Yeah, that's completely fine.

I did not say it was just going to be one equation.

I was just about to say it might be a terrible mess.

We don't have any right to say that the final theory of the whole universe will be simple or elegant or easily understandable by us.

But we can shoot for it.

We can try and we can give it our best shot and see what happens.

That's what we're trying to do.

If it was as hard as Kepler, I'd be very, very happy.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome to the June 2026 Ask Me Anything edition of the Mindscape podcast.

I'm your host, Sean Carroll.

So I don't know whether this is percling into other parts of the world.

Probably it is.

But here in the United States, one of the many, many news stories going on, it's a news rich environment these days.

You have to at least say that.

One of the many stories is that senior officials, senior elite officials,

Members of our governing classes, both literally in government and in industry, have been picking fights with the Pope, with our new Pope, Pope Leo XIV.