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Sean Carroll books: every book Sean Carroll wrote and recommended
Across 3 podcasts. Every show Sean Carroll appears on, in one place — not just one.
Books by Sean Carroll
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From Eternity to Here
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The Particle at the End of the Universe
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Spacetime and geometry
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The Big Picture
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Something Deeply Hidden
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Biggest Ideas in the Universe
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God and Cosmology
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Quanta and Fields
Sean Carroll discussed several books across multiple podcast appearances, including the Lex Fridman Podcast, StarTalk Radio, and The Joe Rogan Experience. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, he referenced Albert Einstein's work on general relativity, specifically citing the first book of Spacetime and Geometry to distinguish between classical black holes and quantum mechanics. Speaking on StarTalk Radio about his own work, Carroll discussed the first book in his trilogy, The Biggest Ideas in the Universe, explaining that the series was adapted from his collection of pandemic instructional videos. On The Joe Rogan Experience, he mentioned a book written by his wife, Jennifer Ouellette, titled Me, Myself, and Why, which explores the science of the self. During the same appearance, Carroll utilized literary comparisons, bringing up Aesop's fable of the fox and the grapes to illustrate how certain physicists react when they fail to understand quantum mechanics. Through these discussions, Carroll referenced texts spanning classical physics, popular science, and classic fables.
Books recommended by Sean Carroll
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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”
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Biggest Ideas in the Universe
Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean M.
Discussed“the basic idea is that we took the series of videos I did which cover a lot of material and we chopped them up into three books so this is the first book of a Trilogy”
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Me, Myself, and Why
Discussed“my wife Jennifer will let - as a science writer wrote a book called me myself and why searching for the science of self”
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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”
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Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
Über die spezielle und die allgemeine Relativitätstheorie by Albert Einstein is a foundational scientific text in which the physicist explains his theories of relativity in a manner intended to be accessible to readers with a general scientific education.
Discussed“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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Appearances
Other mentions (30: passing, ad reads, own books)
“And this is literally the chapter I wrote for my book, Something Deeply Hidden, which is all about quantum mechanics.”
“You can read about it in my book, Quanta and Fields, by the way.”
“but the story you can read about in my new book Quant and Fields where I explained this”
“So that's why I keep needing to distinguish between black holes according to Einstein's theory general relativity, which is book one of "Spacetime and Geometry," which is perfectly classical.”
“I will recommend that people who think it's clergy and making things up buy a book that I recently wrote that explains how general relativity Works among other things”
“in fact this is more or less the straightforward prediction of the equations that we've been lovingly describing here and I wrote a whole other book my previous book was called something deeply hidden describing and defending exactly that point of view”
“first multimedia the book uh that uh is out fall 2022 the biggest ideas in the universe”
“so you know my previous book the big picture was very broad a lot of philosophy a lot of biology was in there”
“tell the story in my book you know I do a bunch of different things some fine ocean foundations of quantum mechanics some gravity and particle physics and stuff like that”
“yeah I tell the story in the book like he wrote a bunch of influential papers as a graduate student”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“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”
“and it would be like from our point of view be like 2001 or there's an you know an monolith monolith”
“this is the book that I'm writing right now that's gonna be out a year from now called something deeply hidden it'll be about quantum mechanics”
“read that in my other book the particle came to the universe”
“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”
“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”
“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”