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Welcome to the August 2023 Ask Me Anything episode of Mindscape! These monthly excursions are funded by Patreon supporters (who are also the ones asking the questions). We take questions asked by Patreons, whittle them down to a more manageable number — based primarily on whether I have anything interesting to say about them, not whether the questions themselves are good — and sometimes group them together if they are about a similar topic. Enjoy!
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To be fair Timex used to make cheap mass produced mechanical watches as well that weren't renowned for their accuracy well before they made quartz watches.
I am disappointed that Sean called David Grusch a conspiracy theorist..
I doubt very much et has visited our shores..
But to denigrate any whistle blowing attempts seems nieve on your part sean
Maybe a bigger problem that he is by his actions showing the corruption in the pentagon with defense government contracts
I love Sean's suss haircut.
It's the dreaded zoo hypothesis! In the far-fetched hypothetical that aliens are here, they're not hiding and they're not right in our faces. Hovering benignly on the periphery is apparently how we interact with animals that we're trying to domesticate… 😅
Your last episode was fantastic. Internet can really promote outlandish concepts quickly and your podcasts help to remind people of the foundations of physics that should guide you. This is a great public service you do.
Sean, you made my day today with your comment on the UFO nutjob talking about the holographic principle. I had incidentally listened to it live as background noise. When he said that I almost fell off my chair LOL. Too bad there was nobody of reasonable background in that hearing who could have asked him serious questions and make him sweat a little. He clearly lives off the lack of knowledge in his audience. Not saying everyone out there needs to know about the holographic principle, but you'd hope in given setting there would be at least a few experts who could keep that guy honest and accountable.
Why does Sean say that superconductors at room temperature do not conflict with the rules of physics? I thought that the material needs to be very cold to slow down the vibration of atoms so that the electrons can move freely, leading to superconductivity.
Most people working day jobs are interested in making money. Day job physicits do the same. At the end of the day too many questions unanswered, but on the other hand too much material to cover
'We all need a commercial break for whatever reason..' HAVE to be the most American expression ever..
OC poverty and inequality is abhorrent. It doesn't make the world a better place to use people as slaves. Capitalism is a psychopathic secular religion and should be abolished..
But what is a field? You need to distort a field to make a motion in space, well then how about distorting a gravitational field whatever that means, we don't even know what a gravitational field is, but at least some of the fuzzy pics may well reflect some kind of a space/time distortion taking place, and last, Sean's opinions on the UAPs are his own opinions, in no way they represent any official gov nor public/scientific stance on this peculiar subject.
I wanna have a large language model trained with Sean Carroll sayings. And compared with the original biological langauge model
I don't believe the UFO claims made by the guy talking to Congress myself, but much of your claims about the incident are inaccurate or unsupported to an extreme degree. It's interesting watching you lose your "carefulness" on a topic like this.
You put UFO's and Anti-Vax (Pro-Immune System) proponents into the 'crackpot' category, yet you believe in the Many-Worlds-Theory! Highly amusing!
I don't understand where he gets the extinction risks of AI being a very tiny number. Almost no serious person I know of has that number below 5% and many are above 50%. Those numbers are not small enough to be a distraction.
Holy shit, prof carroll is into watches and basketball
i have a feeling all the dislikes on this episode are from you flat out denying the UAP "evidence". which so far has only been 1 person telling others that this exists in private. no actual evidence, yet at least. im sure its different this time tho! (ready to eat my words)
Thank you Dr. Sean. Always great quality. Oh, Patreon. One-Dollar-One-Vote for questions, I wouldn't have thought you in that side of things. Maybe you include questions fairly from the unwashed masses as well? // People missing in your thinking? Ouch, why even answer that! That's crude. We all specialize. My Dr is a good human being at home with her kids. But a professional Dr at work with me. Don't listen to that stuff Dr Carroll.
I was surprised I liked Oppenheimer also. I expected .. usual American movie. A chase scene at the end. Simple saluting of military. Instead, story. Yes stories. // I saw a black face at the Manhatten Project. I wish I could know more about that story. I hope a physicist not ..other.
crankin' 'em out right through here ❤️
Copenhagen isn't wrong, It isn't even right!
Sean I've been listening to your podcast since 2019 and even when you have non experts on (I'm a professional poker player and the 2 poker players you had on are very far from being experts) I still give it a listen. But the rebuttal to the question on UFO's is just factually incorrect. David Grusch isn't just "some dude," he's a decorated combat veteran of 16 years for the USAF. The second factually incorrect statement you made was saying that the majority of UFO sighting's happen in the United States. Most sighting's happen in different countries, Congress was specifically talking about sighting's in America because that's what is most relevant to the hearing. Also just because David doesn't understand physics at a deep level like you and incorrectly used the holographic principle doesn't mean what he is saying is false. The "no sense" argument is only illogical to humans, you can't use anthropomorphic reasoning when speaking of alleged aliens. All that matters is data, and there is loads of it if you do some research on the topic. As someone who uses Bayesian reasoning everyday in his job, I'm well versed in how conditional probability works. But like Michio Kaku stated, the burden of proof has shifted in this debate. Thanks for your time and I hope you do some more research on the topic (both in poker and the UAP debate).
Never imagined I would be so captivated listening to a physics professor talking about a barbie movie
Was not expecting a Sean Carroll analysis of the Barbie movie
oh yes please, 4 hour episodes are the best 😀
When a I can program crispr technology and produce virulent strains of smallpox or whatever
Why am i on a watchlist?
Great AMA!
Reply to Sean Carroll AMA Aug 2023 from Journalists Ross Coulthart and Bryce Zabel who allowed me to post their reply.
We mean no disrespect to physicist Sean Carroll but why is his opinion in the remotest bit relevant? He’s a physicist, not an intelligence insider with access to national security secrets.
One of the key issues behind Mr Grusch’s allegations is that he is constrained from revealing the full extent of what he knows because of his national security oath. So, as Mr Grusch made clear, his evidence has already been accepted as credible and urgent by the ICIG, which led to the ICIG referring Mr Grusch’s allegations to Congress for further investigation.
We know that first-hand witnesses from within the legacy program have already testified to the ICIG in support of Mr Grusch’s claims. Congress has also taken evidence in secret hearings. So, frankly, who cares what Mr Carroll thinks? He’s no doubt an intelligent person but he’s doing what a lot of scientists do, which is adopt the mantra: It can’t be true, therefore it isn’t.
If particles act like a wave. Should this mean they might and up in the complete different place if measure on the very large (cosmic)distance from the source.
Where do you get the energy to keep going? Do not stop, however!
If there are room temperature superconductors then they must be made of some exotic stuff, because we don’t see them in mineral form. The Earth has spent billions of years cooking up all sorts of element combinations in various ways – yet we’ve never seen a mineral with any of there properties…. Sorry.
Thanks! U sound like a contemporary Einstein. And your spiels, I must say, extend beyond the box and are applaudable to the nth degree. Kudos to u! However, in ALL your notable brilliance, u fail to acknowledge the Bible, the Word of God. Jesus Christ is the Way, Truth, and Life. And UNLESS u repent and make Him the Lord of your life, u will invariably wind up in Hell, where NONE of the staggering info in your database can save u. The fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom and knowledge.
back again with a guy in a box under constant acceleration.
i did eventually think of a way you can tell.. assuming linear acceleration in 1 direction. and there are 2 clocks 1 on the floor 1 on the roof.
a second frame on the planet with a 24 hour rotation, a clock on the ground and 1 on a mountain.
after a while the clocks on the planet would go out of sync because of frame dragging..
but in the room under constant acceleration. both clocks should remain in sync.
thus telling him he's in an accelerating frame rather than a gravitational field.
You were great in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont HIgh.
A thought about Rogan v no-Rogan. A factor might be to assess whether the/a show is maliciously or carelessly anti-fact as apposed to merely misguided or overly entertainment driven.
Thank you for dispelling the UAP garbage.
6:51 Makes me think of Lister of Red Dwarf, he's a superconductor as well, you could send any curry through him.
23:38 Exactly, i thought it was a nothingburger from the start, and it has only gotten worse as it progresses. It's a giant mess.
What i hoped from it, was maybe some more forthcomingness from any party that could possibly share anything worthwhile, and maybe have some international initiative to look into claims and debunk them officially.
I never believed that there were ships and bodies, especially without any evidence, it's all hearsay and it's all made up, unfortunately.
25:25 Hah, exactly! I think i commented on that on the last episode, he totaly ruined it when he started about the holographic principle, i was flabbergasted.
To the person who asked about probability: you will love David Deutsch's work.