Beautiful dr. Sean, After viewing this episode and many more from before, now I realize that within the locality of myself , how simple minded I'm is merely my own entropy at the beginning simple state heading to a higher state of entropy. God forbids, if that allowed to go unchecked, 1 or 2 hundreds years later, I might turn into another version of Einstein in 23rd century. Just some thought, philosophically silly or funny. Thanks for the efforts and keep up the great work.
To this day I find Sean Carroll and David Eagleman probably the best communicators of foundational science concepts and this presentation is a perfect example of that!
I still struggle with what entropy actually has to do with time, beyond providing a means of keeping track of it. Entropy means "things become more disorganized over time. " But this definition assumes the existence of time from the start and leaves time itself undefined. The explanations of why entropy is always increasing (based on probabilities) and how complexity can arise (in those interim phases) are fascinating for sure. But they avoid my earlier point that time itself is not actually defined. Again, you can't define entropy without assuming that time exists.
3:47 "Astronomers extrapolate the motion of the solar system millions or billions of years." No they don't! The Lyapunov time for the solar system is estimated at 5 million years. After a billion years, differences in initial conditions are magnified exp(200) times, or more than 7 times 10 ^86, which is over 10^20 times the ratio of the size of the universe to the Planck length.
Beautiful dr. Sean,
After viewing this episode and many more from before, now I realize that within the locality of myself , how simple minded I'm is merely my own entropy at the beginning simple state heading to a higher state of entropy. God forbids, if that allowed to go unchecked, 1 or 2 hundreds years later, I might turn into another version of Einstein in 23rd century. Just some thought, philosophically silly or funny. Thanks for the efforts and keep up the great work.
Sean Carroll knocks it out of the park like few others..
Best 30 minute science video I’ve ever seen
To this day I find Sean Carroll and David Eagleman probably the best communicators of foundational science concepts and this presentation is a perfect example of that!
I still struggle with what entropy actually has to do with time, beyond providing a means of keeping track of it. Entropy means "things become more disorganized over time. " But this definition assumes the existence of time from the start and leaves time itself undefined. The explanations of why entropy is always increasing (based on probabilities) and how complexity can arise (in those interim phases) are fascinating for sure. But they avoid my earlier point that time itself is not actually defined. Again, you can't define entropy without assuming that time exists.
a lot of emotion while watching Sean Caroll
Great, thank you Sean!
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3:47 "Astronomers extrapolate the motion of the solar system millions or billions of years." No they don't! The Lyapunov time for the solar system is estimated at 5 million years. After a billion years, differences in initial conditions are magnified exp(200) times, or more than 7 times 10 ^86, which is over 10^20 times the ratio of the size of the universe to the Planck length.
If you start from nothing, from non-existence, then you start from no entropy.