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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And I think that most physicists don't try very hard to follow developments in new mathematics.
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Most physicists are interested in physics.
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And you know, I I this is a a hobby horse, this is something I say over and over again, because everyone loves to emphasize the importance of mathematics and physics, both sort of historically or philosophically, but also just pedagogically.
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When you're learning physics and you're trying to become a good physicist, it is perfectly clear that there's a lot of mathematics that is very, very useful in becoming a good physicist.
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And but people get a little carried away with that, honestly, and they start to say,
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Start thinking that physicists should follow mathematics because it might be useful or whatever.
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And there are some people who do.
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There definitely is a sort of subclass of physicists who love to sort of play around and learn new mathematics and then put it to work.
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See if they can find a place where that new mathematics could be useful for something.
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But I think that most physicists have the math they need and
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They're interested in solving physics problems, right?
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Most physicists are not string theorists or highly mathematical people.
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They're trying to figure out what makes superconductivity, or, you know, why sand moves in a certain way, or how a magnetic field pushes around a plasma.
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And these are all things where we know the math.
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We have to figure out the physics.
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So there's a small fraction who do that, but for the most part, physicists will wait for
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the need for new math before actually diving on that bandwagon.
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Killian says, if you were innocent of a serious crime and the evidence needed to establish the truth was available, would you rather twelve human jurors or twelve AIs decide your fate?
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So I think right now, if this is twenty twenty six we're talking about, twelve human jurors, no problem.
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I would not even hesitate to pick the human jurors.
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