Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2019-09-15
Books mentioned on #1352 - 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.
Other mentions in this episode (12) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Something Deeply Hidden
“so over the weekend I got in your book whoo yes yes it's great I mean I really appreciate someone like you who's trying to break down quantum mechanics and quantum physics for someone like me it's very hard to follow and there was a lot of backing up and trying it again”
Plugged Something Deeply Hidden
“yeah I tell the story in the book like he wrote a bunch of influential papers as a graduate student”
Plugged Something Deeply Hidden
“so Einstein is one of the secret heroes of the book because he has this reputation as someone who just couldn't quite accept quantum mechanics the title something deeply hidden is a quote from Einstein”
Plugged Something Deeply Hidden
“so Einstein is one of the secret heroes of the book because he has this reputation as someone who just couldn't quite accept quantum mechanics the title something deeply hidden is a quote from Einstein when he was talking about when he was a kid and he had a compass”
Plugged Something Deeply Hidden
“you know I have a chapter in the book which my editor resisted at first but then he let me get away with it which is a dialogue between a young philosopher and her father who was a physicist”
Plugged The Big Picture
“I talked about this in the last book in the big picture think about this when we when we talk about the earth going around the Sun”
Plugged Something Deeply Hidden
“there's also what I try to squelch in the book one of the misunderstandings about quantum mechanics is the idea of quantum fluctuations”
“you know the structure of scientific revolutions is the famous book that everyone reads people like Thomas Kuhn and Paula abend and so forth”
Plugged Something Deeply Hidden
“and that was in fact I think that you got a copy of my book that didn't have any figures in it right didn't you get the”
“the I'll tell you that the motivation was when I wrote my previous book the big picture it was a sprawling book”
Plugged Something Deeply Hidden
“the I'll tell you that the motivation was when I wrote my previous book the big picture it was a sprawling book so it's not only physics but also philosophy and neuroscience”
Plugged The Big Picture
“the I'll tell you that the motivation was when I wrote my previous book the big picture it was a sprawling book so it's not only physics but also philosophy and neuroscience”