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How to Make Use of Our Limited Time in This Tiny Part of Space with Sean Carroll

Inquiring Minds - March 07, 2022 08:12 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 821 ratings
During the pandemic, one thing we’ve had a little more of--at least sometimes--is time. Time to panic and stress and worry, but also time to think and reflect. This week, in the spirit of reflection, we’re revisiting a conversation with theoretical physicist Sean Carroll recorded back in 2016. ...

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Episode 30: Brian Keating interviews Sean Carroll about his book Something Deeply Hidden & Many Worlds

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating - December 20, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 88 ratings
Sean M. Carroll is a Research Professor of Physics at CalTech. He is a theorist who thinks about the fundamental laws of nature, especially as they connect to cosmology. His research involves theoretical physics and astrophysics, especially cosmology, field theory, and gravitation. He has worked ...

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#126 - Sean Carroll - The Problem With Quantum Mechanics

Modern Wisdom - December 12, 2019 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.8K ratings
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist, podcaster and author. Quantum physics is complicated. The quantum world does not operate like the one we see around us, yet our human experience of life emerges from this strange universe. Today we learn how it can be the case that something so alien can g...

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2007-04-28 - Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Our Universe - Sean Carroll

Reekola Midnite - November 30, 2019 02:33 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 505 ratings
2007-04-28 - Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Our Universe - Sean Carroll

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2006-12-03 - Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell - Sean Carroll - Cosmology and Time

Reekola Midnite - November 17, 2019 15:17 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 505 ratings
2006-12-03 - Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell -  Sean Carroll - Cosmology and Time

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Sean Carroll: Quantum Mechanics and the Many-Worlds Interpretation

Lex Fridman Podcast - November 01, 2019 16:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and Santa Fe Institute specializing in quantum mechanics, arrow of time, cosmology, and gravitation. He is the author of Something Deeply Hidden and several popular books and he is the host of a great podcast called Mindscape. This is the second ...

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Fr. Sean Carroll, SJ, is Welcoming Migrants on the US/Mexico Border

AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast - October 30, 2019 10:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 104 ratings
There are not many areas of the country that are discussed by more ill-informed talking heads than the US-Mexico border. But when guest Fr. Sean Carroll, SJ, talks about the region, everyone should listen. Fr. Carroll is a Jesuit priest and the executive director of the Kino Border Initiative (...

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Ep63 - Sean Carroll: "Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime"

Talks at Google - October 22, 2019 04:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 113 ratings
Caltech research professor, theoretical physicist, accomplished author & podcaster Sean Carroll will talk quantum physics and the validity of the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum mechanics by discussing some of the themes in in his new book, “Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds an...

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1305: Client Case Study: Real Estate Investing Before, During & After The Great Recession with Sean Carroll

Creating Wealth Real Estate Investing with Jason Hartman - October 17, 2019 20:52 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 495 ratings
Jason Hartman talks with client Sean Carroll about the journey he's had with real estate. From starting out as an agent in New York before the Great Recession to losing every penny he had, Sean now has a portfolio of properties that is allowing him to be in the career he wants to be in. Jason an...

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Episode 572: Open Space 47: Quantum Mechanics With Caltech's Sean Carroll

Universe Today Podcast - October 01, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 238 ratings
My guest this week was Professor Sean Carroll from Caltech. Sean's a theoretical physicist, author of many books, and podcaster. His newest book, "Something Deeply Hidden" has just been released, presenting his ideas about the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. Learn more about Sea...

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Episode 277 - Sean Carroll

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria - October 01, 2019 02:07 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 923 ratings
In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara once again sits down with Caltech physicist Dr. Sean Carroll, this time to talk about his new book, “Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime.” They discuss what quantum mechanics is (and isn’t), its relation to psychology and phil...

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Sean Carroll: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Space-Time

Commonwealth Club of California Podcast - September 15, 2019 23:27 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 273 ratings
Quantum mechanics is the most accurate and far-reaching theory in physics, yet physicists themselves readily admit that they don't understand it. But Caltech physicist and New York Times best-selling author Sean Carroll suggests that we do have a very promising way of understanding the mysteries ...

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Sean Carroll

Dr. Drew Podcast - July 31, 2019 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Today our guest is theoretical physicist Sean Carroll from the Mindscape podcast and his forthcoming book 'Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime' coming out soon and available now for preorder on Amazon. Find out more at PreposterousUniverse.com ButcherBox: Visit...

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Sean Carroll: The Nature of the Universe, Life, and Intelligence

Lex Fridman Podcast - July 10, 2019 15:39 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at Caltech, specializing in quantum mechanics, gravity, and cosmology. He is the author of several popular books: one on the arrow of time called From Eternity to Here, one on the Higgs boson called The Particle at the End of the Universe, and one on scienc...

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Rule of Two - The Science of Star Wars With Sean Carroll

Collider Jedi Council - February 12, 2019 20:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 824 ratings
Welcome to Episode 26 of Rule of Two, a celebration of the Star Wars Universe, here on Collider’s Jedi Council Podcastone feed; now on the main YT channel of Collider Videos! This week, Reilly and Fernandez welcome in the Research Professor of Physics at Caltech Sean Carroll! Dr. Carroll joins us...

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344. Sean Carroll, host of Mindscape

Geek's Guide to the Galaxy - A Science Fiction Podcast - January 18, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 875 ratings
Science fiction author David Barr Kirtley (Save Me Plz and Other Stories) talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman (#253), George R. R. Martin (#22), Richard Dawkins (#46), Simon Pegg (#39), Bill Nye (#273), Margaret Atwood (#94), Neil deGrasse Tyson (#32), and Ursula K. Le Guin (#65)....

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Ep. #12 - Assessing Sean Carroll's the Big Picture

Classical Theism Podcast - Afar - October 29, 2018 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 138 ratings
Brandon Vogt joins me to assess and critique Sean Carroll's book "The Big Picture." Brandon thinks Carroll's "Big Picture" is "too small" and he explains why in the course of the interview.  The Classical Theism Podcast aims to defend Catholic Christian ideas in conversation. With the help of ...

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Cosmic Queries: Mysterious Cosmology, with Sean Carroll

StarTalk Radio - December 01, 2017 23:40 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 12.9K ratings
String theory, the fabric of spacetime, the multiverse, quantum mechanics, and much more – explore the cosmological mysteries of the universe with Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and theoretical physicist Sean Carroll. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to t...

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Does God or Naturalism best explain the Universe? Sean Carroll vs Luke Barnes

Unbelievable? - October 27, 2017 16:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratings
Eminent cosmologists Sean Carroll and Luke Barnes join Justin for an extended edition of the show debating naturalism, Theism, Big Bang cosmology and fine tuning. Sean, an atheist astrophysicist and author of 'The Big Picture: on the origins of life, meaning and the universe itself' argues that...

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Bookish with Sonya Walger - October 23, 2017 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 91 ratings
My guest this week is physicist and author at Caltech, Sean Carroll. Sean's books include Spacetime and Geometry; From Eternity to Here and The Big Picture: On the origins of Life, Meaning, & the Universe itself. Hardly intimidating at all........ Sean's Books • One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts ...

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051 - The Big Picture with Sean Carroll

Life After God's tracks - April 06, 2017 00:54 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 140 ratings
This week I speak with theoretical physicist (Caltech), Sean Carroll. We talk about his new book entitled, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. The author of two previous books on physics for popular audiences (From Eternity to Here, The Particle at the End o...

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Rationally Speaking #162 - Sean Carroll on "Poetic Naturalism"

Rationally Speaking Podcast - June 26, 2016 17:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 464 ratings
Naturalism is the stance that everything that exists in the universe arises from "natural" causes, of the sort observable by science -- not supernatural ones. It's practically a foundational tenet of skepticism. But does it imply that there can be no meaning, or purpose, or morality in the univer...

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1932:A 2016 In-Depth Interview With Sean Carroll

Rick Kleffel:Narrative Species–The Agony Column - June 11, 2016 16:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings
Sean Carroll discusses his new book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself.

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135 Sean Carroll - Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself

Inquiring Minds - June 03, 2016 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★ - 821 ratings
We talk to theoretical physicist Sean Carroll about his latest book The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/inquiringminds

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AS244: Sean Carroll, Part 2

Serious Inquiries Only - May 26, 2016 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 978 ratings
We’re back for more with Dr. Sean Carroll! This time it’s even more action packed. We talk about his debate with William Lane Craig, which I think is one of the best atheism/religion debates out there on the YouTubes. In addition to that, we talk about the Boltzmann Brain Problem, and Sean answe...

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AS243: The Big Picture, with Sean Carroll

Serious Inquiries Only - May 23, 2016 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 978 ratings
This week I have Dr. Sean Carroll on the show!!! I’m more excited than I can contain! Sean has a new book called The Big Picture. You can find it on Amazon by clicking here. In today’s episode, we talk about Sean’s new book, which I highly recommend everyone go buy! In additional to discussing t...

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Episode 180 - Patton Oswalt, Sean Carroll and Brooks Wheelan Live from LA PodFest

Probably Science - September 23, 2015 22:35 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 609 ratings
This week's episode was recorded live from the Audible Los Angeles Podcast Festival, with Andy Wood (@andytwood) and Matt Kirshen (@mattkirshen) welcoming original third host Brooks Wheelan (@brookswheelan), along with comedy legend Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) and Caltech theoretical physicist...

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Rationally Speaking #133 - Sean Carroll on "The Many Worlds Interpretatioln Is Probably Correct"

Rationally Speaking Podcast - May 03, 2015 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 464 ratings
In this episode of Rationally Speaking, Caltech physicist Sean Carroll describes an "embarrassing" state of affairs in modern physics: that we still don't know how to interpret quantum mechanics, almost a century after its discovery. Sean explains why he thinks the "Many Worlds Interpretation" (...

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Black Holes, and The Arrow of Time with Dr. Sean Carroll

Hound Tall with Moshe Kasher - March 06, 2015 04:40 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
Black Holes, and The Arrow of Time with renowned physicist Dr. Sean Carroll, and comedians Pete Holmes and Joe DeRosa!

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Sean Carroll - Dark Energy

Atheist Hangouts's tracks - October 17, 2014 03:58 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 5 ratings
Sean Carroll is a senior research associate in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology. He is a theoretical cosmologist specializing in dark energy and general relativity. He has been a contributor to the physics blog Cosmic Variance, and has published in scientific j...