Physics & Philosophy with Sean Carroll
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What cosmic questions are explored in this episode?
Hey, Star Talkians, Neil here. You're about to listen to an episode specially drawn from our archives to serve your cosmic curiosities. The archives run deep. If you enjoy this, take a peek at the full catalog on your favorite podcast platform. There's a lot there to tickle your geek underbelly. Check it out. Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. StarTalk begins right now.
I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
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Hey, what's happening?
All right. Always good to have you there, man. Especially when we have cosmic queries. Fan favorite. Oh, yeah. Fan favorite. We love them. You get to ask a question with sort of entry-level... in our Patreon program, just $5 a month.
That's it.
And we collected them. And you know in advance what you're asking about because today's topics involve physics and philosophy. Oh. People love just talking about stuff for which there is no answer.
Well, of course. You know why? Because it makes them feel like they have a stake and a say.
And a say because nobody has the answer.
Yeah, nobody has the answer. So I'm just as right as you are, right? Like, No, you're not. You're still an idiot, okay? See, I have a PhD in philosophy and physics. I have what's called an informed opinion. You, on the other hand, went on the internet, saw somebody on Joe Rogan's show say something about something else, and now you think you're an expert. Shut up.
Shut up. All right, sorry.
Okay, that's the end of our show. Well, we're bringing into this an old friend and colleague, Sean Carroll. Sean, welcome to StarTalk. Hey, thanks for having me on, Neil. Welcome back to StarTalk, I should say. You've been on at least four or five times. You are one of the world's experts on not only physics, being a physicist, but you're also that subcategory of physicist who cares about philosophy. and have engaged philosophers on the frontier of our understanding of physics. So it's great to have you for this Cosmic Queries. And dare I say, we crafted this Cosmic Queries around your expertise. So you are the Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Johns Hopkins University right there in Baltimore.
And you have a joint appointment at the Santa Fe Institute. Now, that institute, everything I know about it, those are deep thinkers about things that it's like, what? Like you twist your head like a dog hearing a high pitch. It's like, what? And you're the fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. And your expertise in quantum physics, space-time, cosmology, love it. Emergence, entropy. Dark matter, dark energy, symmetry, origins of the universe. And perhaps most people who know you know you through your Mindscape podcast. So always good stuff happening there.
Those things that make you tilt your head and scrunch up your eyes. Like, that's my lane. That's what I do.
That's you? Okay, so I say this lovingly and crazily. Stay in your lane, okay? So tell me, what is, first, natural philosophy? I last saw that term with, you know, 17th, 18th century philosophers. Natural philosophy was the then term for what today we would call physics, right? Because political philosophy and religious philosophy.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What cosmic questions are explored in this episode?
0:00–17:07
2
How does Sean Carroll define natural philosophy?
17:07–18:20
3
What is the relationship between physics and philosophy?
18:20–22:28
4
Why is the past different from the future?
22:28–32:41
5
What is quantum entanglement and how does it work?
32:41–41:27
6
What are the implications of the many worlds hypothesis?
41:27–47:30