Sean Carroll
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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It's absolutely possible that the ultimate explanations are not that simple.
I actually don't believe that.
I think the ultimate explanation probably will be really, really simple.
But...
I don't know.
Okay.
I mean, again, we don't know, but what I like to do is just think about how far we've already come, you know?
A hundred years ago, we had just finished getting quantum mechanics.
We didn't know about the expansion of the universe.
We certainly didn't know about quantum fields and the standard model and all these things.
We didn't know about other galaxies yet.
It happened in 1926.
Yeah.
Of course, it's possible we'll never get there.
But the rate at which we've been learning things, and this is just the past hundred years.
Think about the past thousand years.
And 10,000 years from now, we're going to know a lot.
If we're here.
Yeah.
So I think that's it's fascinating to imagine at a slightly more detailed, careful level.