Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2017-08-24
Books mentioned on #1003 - Sean Carroll
Sean Carroll is a cosmologist and physics professor specializing in dark energy and general relativity. He is a research professor in the Department of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.
Sean Carroll discussed Aesop's Fables and The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. Joe Rogan discussed A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Aesop's Fables
Aesop's Fables is a timeless collection of classic moral tales credited to the ancient Greek storyteller, designed to impart essential life lessons through animal allegories and simple narratives.
Discussed“they flip it they it's like Aesop's Fox and the grapes you know the parable where the Fox is trying to get the grapes”
Where to get it
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The Secret
The Secret by Rhonda Byrne is a bestselling self-help phenomenon centered on the law of attraction, which posits that positive visualization and focused intention can manifest wealth, health, and happiness directly into a person's life.
Discussed“I have a friend it was a really sad sort of story I have a friend who was really into the secret and she was actually a friend of a friend more than a friend and I ran into her at the comedy store and we were talking and she was explaining to me how she has sort of used”
Where to get it
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A Universe from Nothing
A Universe from Nothing by Lawrence M.
Discussed“like I getting through Lawrence Krauss his last book man there's chapters that I had to like go ok let's go through this one more time”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“that's good it's not well so the title of the book is something deeply hidden this is a phrase from Einstein and the ideas that there is something real that we can get a handle on”
“Well so the title of the book is something deeply hidden This is a phrase from Einstein and the ideas that there is something real that we can get a handle on It's just different than what we see”
“so in my last book the big picture I actually devoted even though it's mostly about physics and philosophy and cosmology and biology I devoted a little bit to the fundamental principles of reasoning”
“and I think that it's so in my last book the big picture I actually devoted even though it's mostly about physics and philosophy and cosmology and biology I devoted a little bit to the fundamental principles of reasoning and especially Bayesian reasoning”
“so in my last book the big picture I actually devoted even though it's mostly about physics and philosophy and cosmology and biology I devoted a little bit to the fundamental principles of reasoning”
“what we should do about it is there an audiobook available as well is I recorded it not far from here”
“what we should do about it is there an audiobook available as well is I recorded it not far from here”