Sean Carroll

Let me tell you.

This is true.

It's not your biggest bummer.

What are you doing, bro?

He says, which one would you pick and why?

I mean, the cheating answer is yes.

Tell me the theory of everything.

Then I could work out everything else from that.

Let me double up behind you.

No, that's not true.

The universe exists.

There is something that happens, right?

We don't know the best way of summarizing what happens.

The best way of summarizing what happens in the universe might just be to literally list everything that happens.

That would be a terribly uninformative theory of the world.

We think we can do much better than that.

I'm not saying that the theory of everything is simple or elegant or fits on a napkin or a t-shirt or anything like that, but there is some full and complete description of the universe.

Right.

Because I'm very much in agreement with the philosophy that we should not be going around telling the universe how to behave.

Like, we can't decide ahead of time what the universe is like.