Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

AMA | October 2022

Oct 10, 2022

03:01:16

Highlights

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Episode notes

The Physics of Democracy

02:26

Is There a Communication Between Worlds?

01:41

The Expanding Universe Requires a Departure From Unitarity in Quantum Mechanics

02:46

Introduction

5min

Is Literacy an Overwhelming Good?

3min

Is There a Data-Free Credence?

2min

Bayesian Reasoning - Is There a Choice?

3min

The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

4min

Is Sociology a Real Science?

2min

The Fine Structure Constant in Particle Mechanics

2min

Quantum Electrodynamics - Is the QCD Scale a Dimensionless Number?

2min

What Is Mass?

2min

10.

Quantum Field Theory - The Photon Is Massless, and It Has No Potential Energy

3min

11.

Is It Possible for a Black Hole to Spin So Fast It Would Tear Itself Apart?

2min

12.

Is There a Cosmic Entanglement?

3min

13.

Is the Web Telescope Renamed?

2min

14.

What Can We Do to Get the Telescope Named?

2min

15.

TV Shows Not Ending Well

2min

16.

Is It Better to Save Misery by Assassination?

2min

17.

What if One Party Had Strictly Controlled the Voting Machines?

2min

18.

Are There Any Benefits to Convictions of Clones of Alice?

2min

19.

Are We Doing It for Retribution or Punishment?

3min

20.

The Higgs Boson and the Large Hadron Collider

2min

21.

Is It Appropriate to Have a Debate?

3min

22.

Do Pulsars Slow Down Over Time?

2min

23.

Is There a Communication Between Worlds?

2min

24.

The Expanding Universe Requires a Departure From Unitarity in Quantum Mechanics

3min

25.

Do You Think the US Should Use Its Influence to Initiate Peace Talks?

2min

26.

Can Science Save Us?

3min

27.

Are There Aspects of Eastern Philosophy That You Actively Consider Research or Teach?

2min

28.

The Theory of Time and Entropy

3min

29.

Is There a Relationship Between Being Alive and Being Intelligent?

3min

30.

Entropy Is a Number That You Calculate

2min

31.

The No Hair Theorem

3min

32.

How Do Energy Cycles Affect the Goldilocks Zone?

4min

33.

How Do You Visualize the Interiors of Black Hole?

2min

34.

Is There a Difference Between Scientific Claims and Non-Science Claims?

3min

35.

Aristotle's Causes and Effects in Modern English

2min

36.

Is There a Relationship Between Global Warming and CO2 Emissions?

2min

37.

Utilitarianism

2min

38.

Is Gender a Social Construct?

3min

39.

Are You Having Panic Attacks?

4min

40.

Is There a Socioeconomic Problem?

2min

41.

Does the Everett Many World's Interpretation Have Implications for Practical Reason and Morality?

2min

42.

Is There a Metaphysical Difference Between a Single Universe and Many Worlds?

5min

43.

Are We Too Afraid of Being Wrong?

2min

44.

How to Calculate the Potential Energy of a Ball in the Valley

2min

45.

Why Is the Electron Charge Quantized?

3min

46.

Is There a Relationship Between Protons and Electrons?

2min

47.

How to Get People Interested in Science

2min

48.

Do Antimatter Particles Exist on Earth?

3min

49.

Is There a Good Quantum Interpretation That No Experts Have Come Up With?

2min

50.

How to Write a Paper in Physics?

4min

51.

Decoherence Is Not Just Entanglement, Decoherence With the Environment

4min

52.

Lenny's Theoretical Minimum Series on Classical and Quantum Mechanics

3min

53.

Are There Any Reasons Why We Shouldn't Extinguish Humankind?

2min

54.

What Causes Superposition to Decoher?

2min

55.

Is the Third Derivative of Position Really Important?

4min

56.

Is There a Rock Bottom Fundamental Makeup of the Universe?

3min

57.

How to Popularize Computer Science?

3min

58.

Are You Going to Hire New People?

4min

59.

The Big Bang Model and the Mindscape Connection

3min

60.

Is Moral Constructivism More Important Than Principles?

2min

61.

Optimizing Reproductive Success?

2min

62.

Do You Feel Physicalism in Your Bones?

2min

63.

Is Complexity Observer Dependent?

3min

64.

Observer's Credence on the Possibility of Building a High Resolution Neutrino Telescope

2min

65.

How Do You Decide Which Podcasts Talk Shows to Go On?

1min

66.

Is There an Infinite Time?

2min

67.

The History of Science Has Never Been Like That

3min

68.

A Limiting Case in Quantum Mechanics

4min

69.

The Physics of Democracy

2min

Welcome to the October 2022 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!

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