This is a wonderful talk by Sean Carroll at The Amazing Meeting (TAM) 2012 on the topic of how to think about the Universe, going from the fundamental laws of physics to macroscopic objects in the universe like us, humans. Though a short talk, he covers a wide variety of topics ranging from Quantum Field Theory to morality. The talk is witty, succinct and it makes you wonder about the world around us.
Sean is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and is also a science communicator. He is the author of three popular science books and he blogs regularly at preposterousuniverse. He also gives a lot of public lectures that are available on YouTube. If you have listened to any of Sean's talks before, you would know that Sean believes in naturalism which is the idea that everything that happens in the universe is a consequence of the laws on nature and nothing more. This talk also focuses that this theme. Though the topics that he covers are quite heavy, Sean's experience in being a popular science communicator, makes this talk very entertaining.
If you are interested in listening to more technical talks by Sean, I would highly recommend his talks at CERN on Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
Sean is a theoretical physicist at Caltech and is also a science communicator. He is the author of three popular science books and he blogs regularly at preposterousuniverse. He also gives a lot of public lectures that are available on YouTube. If you have listened to any of Sean's talks before, you would know that Sean believes in naturalism which is the idea that everything that happens in the universe is a consequence of the laws on nature and nothing more. This talk also focuses that this theme. Though the topics that he covers are quite heavy, Sean's experience in being a popular science communicator, makes this talk very entertaining.
If you are interested in listening to more technical talks by Sean, I would highly recommend his talks at CERN on Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
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