Books Mentioned in This Episode

Podcast: Lex Fridman Podcast

Episode: Sean Carroll: General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes & Aliens | Lex Fridman Podcast #428

Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.

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Biggest Ideas in the Universe

by Sean M. Carroll

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"He is a theoretical physicist at Johns Hopkins, host of the Mindscape Podcast that I personally love and highly recommend, and author of many books, including the most recent book series called 'The Biggest Ideas in the Universe,' the first book of which is titled 'Space, Time, and Motion,' and it's on the topic of general relativity."
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Quanta and Fields

by Sean Carroll

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"The second book, coming out on May 14th, which you should definitely pre-order, is titled 'Quanta and Fields.' That one is on the topic of quantum mechanics."
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Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie

by Albert Einstein

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"So that's why I keep needing to distinguish between black holes according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, which is book one of 'Spacetime and Geometry,' which is perfectly classical."
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The Fellowship of the Ring

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, Christina Scull

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"I reckon that warrants some comparison to The Lord of the Rings, , , , , , ."