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

AMA | September 2021

Sep 16, 2021

03:38:49

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Is Basianism Dressed Up Induction?

02:21

Are You Condescending and Self Important?

02:33

Does Emergence Give Us Human Beings Some Understanding That Laplace's Demon Wouldn't Have?

04:18

Introduction

4min

How to Ask Questions on the Mindscape Patrion Podcast

2min

Organizing Academic Research in a University

3min

Is There a Constant Build Up of Knowledge?

4min

Entropy and the Arrow of Time

2min

The Big Bang and Quantum Mechanics Explained

3min

The Entropy of the Early Universe

4min

The Highest Entropy State You Can Get in a Theory With Gravity

2min

Is Entropy Just an Epi Phenomenon?

2min

10.

Time's Arrow Isn't Something That Flows

3min

11.

Is There a Similar Decomposition in Gravity?

2min

12.

The State of Quantum Gravity Entanglement Information Theory

2min

13.

Is Super String Theory Right?

3min

14.

Is Emergence the Key to Understanding the Macceral World?

2min

15.

Is There a Level in Physics?

2min

16.

What Is the State of the Study of Emergence?

3min

17.

Is There a Theory of Emergence?

2min

18.

Does Emergence Give Us Human Beings Some Understanding That Laplace's Demon Wouldn't Have?

4min

19.

What Is the Energy of a Particle?

2min

20.

How Do You Tell if a Relationship Is Worth Fighting For?

2min

21.

Fighting for the Relationship?

2min

22.

Are You Condescending and Self Important?

3min

23.

Antoine Chopin: Is Complex Systems Your Research Focus?

2min

24.

Is There a Relationship Between Decoherence and Measurement?

2min

25.

The Problem of Decoherence in Quantum Mechanics

4min

26.

Are All Physical Phenomenas Computable?

2min

27.

What Is Computable?

5min

28.

Are You an Introvert?

4min

29.

What Would Happen if the Magic Failed?

2min

30.

Quanta Mechanics: Can You Play Devil's Advocate?

4min

31.

How to Convert a Proton Into a Neutron

2min

32.

Is There a Finite Universe in the Cosmos?

3min

33.

The Singularity in the Big Bang Models of Cosmology

3min

34.

Is the Planks Constant of Energy Really Frequency?

2min

35.

How Have Your Colleagues Reacted to Public Communication Work?

4min

36.

What Do You Think About Barack Obama's Presidency?

3min

37.

Is Bill Gates the Master Mind?

3min

38.

What Do You Mean by Exist?

4min

39.

Are There Ways to Harness Usable Energy From That?

2min

40.

Is There a Symmetry Between Matter and Anti Matter?

3min

41.

Is There a Cosmic Inflation in the Universe?

4min

42.

The Mass of the Proton

3min

43.

The Mass of a Loan All by Itself, Quark, OK?

4min

44.

Is Basianism Dressed Up Induction?

2min

45.

Basian Reasoning - Is There Any Other Way?

3min

46.

The Paparian Falsification Way of Doing Things

4min

47.

The Orientation of the Milky Way Galaxy

2min

48.

Is There More Than Three Quarks in the Atomic Nucleus?

3min

49.

How to Be the Best Possible Applicants to a PhD Program?

2min

50.

Getting Good Letters of Recommendation

2min

51.

How to Apply to a Ph.D. Programme

2min

52.

Science Advice on the Big Bang Theory

2min

53.

The Blackboard

3min

54.

Entropy and Quanta Mechanics

3min

55.

Does Entanglement Increase as the Universe Goes On?

2min

56.

Is There a Technology Problem Like That?

2min

57.

Theoretical Physics - Do You Find Concepts Like Oway Affect Your Approaches to Creativity?

2min

58.

How to Get Rid of the Other Branch of the Wave Function?

3min

59.

Are We Going to Build the Next Level Particle Collider?

4min

60.

Is Your Guest's Audio Quality Not as Good?

2min

61.

How Does an Equation Base Approach Give You a Deeper Understanding?

2min

62.

The Speed of Light Is the Maximum Processing Power of the Universe

2min

63.

Is There a Sensation in Which Entanglement Travels at Different Speeds Through the Environment?

2min

64.

Is There a Causality in Microphysics?

3min

65.

What's the Future of Covet Variation?

2min

66.

Vaccination Is Not Enough, Right?

3min

67.

Are You a Math Prodigy Who Turned to Physics?

1min

68.

Is There a Difference Between Humanists and Scientists?

2min

69.

Is There a Black Hole in the Universe?

2min

70.

The Entropy of a Black Hole

2min

71.

Quantum Entropy - The Number of Degrees of Freedom

3min

72.

What Are the Laws of Time?

2min

73.

Is Your Brain Right Now Containing Memories of a Few Seconds Ago?

2min

74.

The Most Important Thing to Teach in High School Science

3min

75.

Are You a Scientist?

2min

76.

Is This Really a Failure?

2min

77.

The Second Derivative of the Potential Near Its Minimum

2min

78.

Is the Second Derivative a Quantum?

3min

79.

What Is the Probability of Life Forming?

2min

80.

We Shouldn't Go in at All, but We Should Stay for Thousands of Years

1min

81.

How Do You Change the Fabric of a Country?

3min

82.

A but What We Can Do?

3min

Welcome to the September 2021 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). I take the large number of questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable size — 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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