Sean Carroll

I'm going to take this as a challenge.

Yeah, I bet I can do it.

What's left will be volume three, which is complexity and emergence.

That's what I'm nearly done with writing right now.

So it's a whole three-part series called The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, yeah.

That's a great question because it wasn't easy.

It took a while.

You know, Isaac Newton worried

about the fact that he didn't know about the concept of fields.

He said that there was a gravitational force between the sun and the earth, and it depends on the distance, you know, the inverse square law, the bigger the distance, the less the force.

But he didn't know how it got there.

How does the earth know where the sun is, how far away it is, how massive it is?

And he said, you know, this is over my pay grade.

I'm going to leave this for future generations to decide, which is not the kind of thing that Isaac Newton said very often.

So it wasn't until the 1800s.

So he knew something was up.

He knew something was up.

It needed further explanation.

Wow.

Action at a distance.