Implicitly, the success of a theoretical physicist is tied to the number of citations they get, which is in turn turned to how often they publish papers. Sabine Hossenfelder rightly points out that this kind of scheme has not only stagnated developments in fundamental physics but has greatly contributed to the decline in the quality of scientific publications. Imagine publishing a paper that only a few handful of people have the necessary knowledge to appreciate and then calling it "groundbreaking."

Thank you!

Happy Holidays to You and Your Family. Thank you for the great content video

Don't EVER apologize for making the episodes as long as they need to be. Proper Science needs time to postulate all the axioms and then work towards the proof! Merry Christmas!

I hear "Supposed to be short". I check the length, two hours! lol Thanks Sean. Happy holidays!

Happy holidays, Sean! Love your work, and I'm also a big fan of Joni Mitchell. Hope you will continue to deliver sane thoughts and ideas, like you always have!

Love u man, will continue to support an honest, and a scientist with real humility

Thanks for an interesting memoir illustrating the thought processes that go into scientific thinking.

Flat 3 dimensional surfaces? Need a proof reader?

I don't think awareness if a good term for simple life like a cell. I think it's better to say that life is synergistic with its environment,. As improved synergy, which I think is how you can characterize sensing ability and literal awareness, leads to improved stability, it rides on the increase stability train. I think self-awareness can fit in this way of thinking too.

I personally loved this, thanks for the early Christmas present haha

Happy holidays Sean ✨️ and thanks for all the great content you created this year 🙌

As if we don’t have enough reasons to admire Sean Carroll, here’s another: Joni fan.

Wow! What a wonderful surprise!!

In addition to the citation index, we need a Rogan index that measures how often authors appear on KZbin to spread conspiracy theories about academics holding back "true" science.

Just the regular 2 hour mini episode .. 😅 Happy holidays !!

Seeing the title and cover image of this episode instantly made me believe it was going to be about Luigi Mangione and the societal circumstances and implications surrounding that event. While perhaps not as exciting, going through your personal hits and misses definitely definitely seems to be just as interesting. Looking forward to the rest of this one <3

People getting mad about you writing a paper about time machines, while the paper was basically 'here's why time machines are impossible', is pretty funny.

Dr Carroll, Merry Christmas. May Santa bring you a new shiny equation that you share with the world. Here's to a long healthy life, full of many fascinating podcasts.

What a great episode! Thanks for posting!

1:23 I've been in this 'dilemma' myself as well, i've uploaded some tracks, and i see which ones get more hits than others, and often times i'm like: "Why don't they click on the better track?" It's always a roulette, because sometimes the title appeals more than the cover art, even more so when i use the same 'album' cover for multiple tracks, sometimes it's the length etc. But, i have been thinking of making some kind of 'greatest hits' playlist, but, i also want to put my own favorites in a list, it is a pity that they don't overlap enough, and i guess i could do both, but maybe i'll keep my own list private.

Enjoy !

Have a great holidays everyone! Thank you professor for all the content we appreciate you a lot!

Hey, Dr. Carroll! Do you ever give public lectures or speeches around Baltimore?

Ahhh! The one episode in the year when the tambourie in the intro feels right😅 Interesting concept with the papers! Listeing now.

how much of the 2 hrs is on Willow chip?

Happy Holidays, Sean!

Great episode! Watched it All!❤

Saying it doesn't make it so. I find it hard to believe that men and women of science don't get this one simple concept - Where did the first, whatever you want to call it, come from? It is an unanswerable question. In that realization, it therefore allows for the existence of God with just as much conviction as no existence of God.

Edward Slingerland is a highly respected scholar of early Chinese philosophy, but to be clear, his thesis put forward in his original Book, "Effortless Action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China", which was then formatted into a popular book for the masses in "Trying Not to Try", is strongly critiqued by his peers. I highly recommend reading Chris Fraser's critique, "On Wu-wei as a Unifying Metaphor", as well as "THE PARADOX OF WUWEI?" by the imminent scholar, P.J. Ivanhoe. To quote one line from Ivanhoe, "The way Slingerland describes the problem of wuwei-in terms of setting a paradox and then posing various solutions-also makes it seem as if this was an explicit conundrum shared by early Chinese thinkers. But, as noted earlier, this simply is not true. Of equal and perhaps even greater concern is his account of wuwei itself."

We used the Lattimore translation of the Illiad in high school English 50 years ago and the people in the class still remember it fondly. This translation is exciting and fulfilling.

I love this podcast. Please keep them going

It is common to try to define "life" as a system with a list of properties, P1, ..., Pn. And then to make the claim that this corresponds to the "usual" meaning of the word "life." Why bother to worry about the "correctness" of a definition for a concept that has a colloquial meaning -- *many* different meanings? Just define some other term as the conjunction of the Pi, or some other terms for the conjunction of a subset of the Pi, and study that... without worrying about if that is really "life" ...?

Good stuff, but our guest would do well to learn how to explain some of these concepts in more simple terms.

Shocker: bespoke tailors have block patterns too. They don't just ''strike'' your body from scratch on the cloth. That's why jackets from a specific maker are similar, huntsman jackets are all similar, rubinacci, etc etc. You do have more leeway in bespoke than MTM, and your pattern is updated in bespoke (arguably measurements in MTM are updated too but less changes can be made). What about handmade MTM? What about bespoke with some machine involvement? What about bespoke that fits you with a coat first to see how the ''house style'' (ie pattern) fits your body? What about MTM with a fitting? What about bespoke where it's not the cutter that fits you? What about bespoke with no in person fitting but online fitting? What about bespoke with a muslin fitting? What about bespoke with only a forward fitting? There are no strict defitions for these terms. Savile row tried years ago to come up with a more ''legal'' definition of bespoke, and failed. Anyone can call anything bespoke nowadays.

Time is that which the clocks show. There.... solved it for you. ;-)

Does her theory what happens at the center of a black hole?

Very fun and informative. Dr. Carroll never seizes to amaze me.

Very insightful - an eye opening way of thinking about life!

Science 👋👋🎩💥💨🐇💃👋👋 "TADA !".... 😂😂😂 Am I right ?

The middle of the ocean so amazing part in this video.

It was so obvious he was a fan all through and it was hilarious when he second guessed Sean's oft-used lines!

"Talk is cheap. Show me the code." - Linus Torvalds :)

Genuinely astounded this is free, your physical insight is exactly the level beyond pop sci that my brain has been craving lately and I feel like some questions I’ve had about special relativity for years have been cleared up. Thank you so much for the mind expansion, I’ve bought both BIitU books and can’t wait to learn more.

55:58 "Everything is defined in terms of everything else." Maybe that's literally true of physical reality and is a feature not a bug. The ultimate relativity. All that's real is relationships. I think that view is called structuralism.

Brilliant conversation. ❤

Interesting. This seems very similar to free energy principle. Has those links been explored?

I love how Wong acknowledged how difficult and still speculative life origin is when he said (paraphrase) the either the replication first or metabolism first camp might be correct. Or they might both be correct. They might also be wrong. There might be a better explanation yet to be figured out.

What drawing app is that?

i wish this nice man was my friend :(