Sean Carroll
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26,727 appearances
49 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 21 Sep
Sean Carroll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're at the network level of people bumping into each other.
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Um you I think they would say you walk faster in a city with a large population because um the entire rate of all processes is
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Faster.
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There are more people, there are more interactions, more things happening.
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It just sort of speeds you up in your day, including just walking down the street.
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You gotta get somewhere, you gotta get someplace to do.
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So I don't think that they bring attention into it in that direct way, but this is why the social sciences are both interesting and challenging.
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Maybe those attention aspects also have something to do with it, and maybe that's a competing explanation.
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And then you have to figure out how to test one versus the other.
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Can you do some random controlled trials where you figure out, aha, it's because of people's attention patterns rather than people just rushing to do the next interesting thing?
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I truly don't know, but that would be interesting to figure out.
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Erkon Sertelli says, looking at the history of physics, it seems that often mathematical concepts invented decades or centuries earlier turn out to be crucial for describing new physical theories.
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How do theoretical physicists approach mathematical concepts that do not yet have any real world use case?
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As in, is it common for physicists to keep up with newer, more abstract maths in case they prove useful for giving inspiration?
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Or offering new exp new perspectives on existing problems?
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problems?
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Or are they mostly ignored until a particular problem creates a need for that kind of mathematical framework?
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Well, you know, there's different kinds of physicists out there, right?
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And they work in different ways.
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