Great. Carroll is entering his Feynman lectures stage of his career where he helps us all understand what is going on, but during his lunch break. Thanks Sean.
One thing that has always impressed me about Sean is his eloquence. I do not think he reads off a teleprompt, and yet his language is lucid, eloquent, rich in vocabulary, nuanced, and fluent. His statements are not interrupted by interjections like “erm”, he does not even use qualifiers like “sort of”, and his videos appear to be entirely unedited. Also his presentations appear entirely natural, they are not polished in a way a public speaker might deliberately design an address to be impactful. The result is a lecture that is easy to follow, and the listener can use all of their attention to focus on the topic Sean is discussing. Top marks from me! I love this series.
@SeanCarroll is there an absolute time? Like if we say that speed of light is an absolute speed, can we talk about absolute time. Or is there no absolute time as everything is relative to one another and 'think's' that their time is absolute? #Q&A #QandA
@SeanCarroll As a graphics artist loving your stuff, the white background is a bit tiresome to look at, especially as the rest of your video is primarily dark-ish. Does the app you are drawing in have to possibility to set a color close to dark chalk board with white chalk for text? It would be easier on they eyes and thematically fit well :) I made a mockup, something like this: imgur.com/WMLhxci
People give Pascal a bad rap for coming up with Pascals wager. Pascal said pressure on a liquid is equal in all directions, no matter where it is measured. Force is pressure x area. He is the father of modern hydraulics.
Sean is a great communicator. The tenor and pace at which he speaks combined with the simplicity, enthusiasm and energy he puts forth are about as good as I've seen. And that cat is pretty darn big and definitely well cared for.
Hi Sean, Love that you're sharing your knowledge with those of us who are fascinated with physics but may not have the depth of mathematical knowledge required for the full mathematical treatment of the subject. At the same time you're giving us a glimpse of the math and inspiring us to delve further. You seem to truly respect your audience here. Thanks for doing this.
Sean Carroll is honoring us by coming down to the basics, in order to clarify us the implementations of abstracted (thought to be) mathematics in research of the Newtonian properties of nature. Until now such lessons were either too advanced to clearly understand, or too flat in the shake of public simplification. He manages to bridge these aspects and this is great! Thank you Sean!
I hope I'm not the only one, but I really look forward to these video releases given the situation going on around me. Thank you so much Sean for sharing your knowledge, especially during this time. Keep up the great work!!!
sean is so good at explaining this stuff! Considering how advanced his work and teaching is sean takes the same time and effort for all levels of learning. big fan
I am so grateful that you have taken the time to make these videos (and so many others). You really have changed my life and made physics accessible to me in a way that no one else has. My apparent inability to comprehend the physical world has always haunted me and I can't put into words how good it feels to finally overcome that! This affects me not only on a personal level but a professional one too: I am researching molecular pathology, and learning physical theory helps me to think in a far more logical manner than I did before! Thank you so much - you're an incredible teacher.
I think one of my favorite things about your lectures are how you can insert your (very dry) humor without it distracting from the material. Really appreciate you doing these lectures!
For me, not to get a nervous twitch from the word "calculus" and numb off, is already something - but actually getting a sense of what is (might be) going on, is an absolute pleasure - Thank you so much!
Just listening to these lectures walking to my physics class is giving me so much vibes and confidence that I don't know what I'll do when this series will end (sorry for my poor grammar, haven't checked it)
The best science communicator and educator I have ever encountered. Really appreciate the flow of words and ideas; the absence of ahhhh, you know and all the other fillers that people use when public speaking.
I have watched many videos on Physics by eminent scientists and they are fascinating. (I used to teach the subject in High School) but Sean has such an engaging and fluent style of delivery. He is an extraordinarily good communicator and probably doesn't even realise it himself. Thank you Sean for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm in such an entertaining way.
Such a brilliant description of the concepts behind calculus! I also love the dichotomy of an amazing science educator and physicist showing off their cat and apologizing if they destroy the green screen in the middle of the lecture.
My favorite teacher ever, mysteriously, you make me feel safe to learn, safe to feel emotionally moved by the beauty of Calculus and my growing feeling that the Cosmos embraces my humanity while I embrace it. Thank you. Live Long. Prosper . . . .
Thank you Sean, you are doing a fantastic public service. Lots of people’s are trapped, have plenty time on their hands and unfortunately in many cases lots of doomed & gloomed thoughts in their heads. These lectures help people to distract themselves from those thoughts and learn something they might never had a chance to learn in regular, mundane life. THANK YOU.
My new favorite physics teacher, I will watch the whole series playlist. He says he is not going to get into much detail, but he ends up teaching you a metric ton of interesting detail. You should watch in order if you have the time because he refers to previous lectures often.
Would hate to admit the percentage of this lecture I understood, BUT what little I could comprehend was a step up in my education. So much more to learn so little time.
I’ve watched to many physics videos on RUclips but this channel thanks to the Professor work is abSolutely thrilling. It should be mandatory to educate people around the world, with this kind of knowledge, peace on earth would come fast
A more heuristic understanding of integral: The odometer is the integral sum of all the speeds. Changing fast at high speed and not at all when stopped. A mathematician will not pick up a hitchhiker because he doesn't want to integrate their weight over distance in fuel.
thanks dr. Sean . calculus haunted me since hi school and worse, continues to college. now decades and decades later after this lecture , it's more human like. and I can claim I understand it,even though I would still avoid a calculus problem. thanks for the effort and keep up with the good work. from HKER worldwide
... fascinated by 'maths' all my life ...but couldn't DO it to save my life!... been using lock down to try to (belatedly) get my head 'round what the hell this wonderful Calculus thing is ... 29:30 ... the first crack of dawn in my darkness! ... thank you!
Thank you for reminding me why I fell in love with Physics!!! BTW, our Mathematical Analysis professor told us that before he understood Integration, he'd done over 500 integrals, using all the methods he shared with us. I wasn't as bright, it must have been at least a thousand examples. Good times :)
I’m truly appreciative of the knowledge you are sharing. I enjoy your videos and talks and always come away more enlightened. These big idea videos are wonderful. This is my second time around watching this series. Thanks for all you do to inform average curious people like me.
I took 3 years of math 30 years ago for an engineering degree. I honestly haven't used much of that math over the years. This is a nice reminder of how it all began with Math 200 - Calculus I :)
I actually remembered (from 46 years ago when I last had a math class) that phrase "the area under the curve" - but I thought it described the derivative, not the integral. Anyway, thanks Dr. Carroll. Brilliant!
33:00 I’ll show thee the best springs. I’ll pluck thee berries. I’ll fish for thee and get thee wood enough. A plague upon the tyrant that I serve! I’ll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee, Thou wondrous man
When I studied calculus I also wondered why integration was so much more difficult than derivation and the answer that I got satisfied me then and still does. When one is working from observation or data points that are plotted on a graph the function is very often not known. In other words we are looking for a formula that might not yet exist and hence the difficulty. Sorry if I've repeated something somebody else has already said.
Great stuff , thanks Professor . Between u, Professor Green n all the other great scientists producing these great videos , it really helps make this tragedy a little less traumatic. Understanding the world at this time is confusing to say the least ! N getting a chance to learn from such high level teachers on a regular basis really takes the edge off !
So... it's the plagues fault I had to learn calculus at high school... of course it was. It all makes sense now... Although I struggle with the mathematical side of it, I love the philosophical side of physics. Even learning the breakdown of the abridged math designed for the simplest of laymen is fascinating. I dont know if you read these, Sean, but you're a fantastic science communicator. I'm enjoying these "biggest ideas"
Great video, but I would like to thank the people who helped you with this video. Thanks to your photographer and your stunt double, you guys put on a great show. Many thanks
Thanks for these great videos - and thanks for making them free on TouTube! I am enjoying indulging my childhood fantasy of becoming an astrophysicist. During this time of stress and change it is wonderful to take the perspective of the universe for a little while and to take my mind off of the uncertainty by challenging my brain to learn new things.
@@nhatmnguyen Basically this is everything wrong with democracy. Most of the ideas on which civilisation is built are not properly understood by most people. In fact, most people do not ever even really think about most of these ideas, let alone understand them.
@@alexpotts6520 Wait, you think you live in an actual democracy? Fascinating, coming from a person who complains about people's misunderstanding of their civilisational foundations. Odds are, you currently live in a republic, and you are in the process of complaining about problems specific to republics, _not_ democracies. In fact, these problems are inevitable features of republics, not bugs, and are pretty much necessary for these systems to function. With democracies, on the other hand, citizens are not objects of political power, acting as voting props for the real subjects of political power. Instead, they are subjects of power themselves and are therefore exposed to, and accountable for, political matters actually being discussed, rather than watered down exposition about them, tailored to fit as four words slogans.
@@lucofparis4819 When I use the word "democracy", I am using it like 99% of people would. I would be the first to say that, in general, 99% of people believing something doesn't make it true, but in this particular case, words are just signifiers, created by humans themselves, and hence they mean whatever the consensus of English speakers agrees them to mean. In this specific context, the 99% majority definition of a word is ipso facto the correct one. So I don't care much for arguments that rely on defining a word in a way that the vast majority of people do not recognise. As for your point generally, a system of what is normally called "direct democracy" (as opposed to the representative democracy which is generally what people are talking about when they use the word "democracy" without a qualifier) is also flawed. Having people vote directly on policy, as opposed to voting for representatives who then decide policy on their behalf, doesn't remove the fundamental problem - the world is too complicated for people to make informed voting decisions. Oh, and finally, I live in Britain. Which is famously *not* a republic, thank you very much.
@@alexpotts6520 Then you're not talking about a democracy, but a democratic oligarchy, i.e. the government of the few, under the legitimacy of the people, which is the founding tenet of the republic system. You may argue over the definition of a democracy all you want, you're still acknowledging its intended meaning by understanding that representative democracies are only indirectly democratic, which is to say everybody knows they're not, including the aforementioned 99%. The usual thinking (the 99%) implies that a direct democracy does not, or cannot, exist, for practical reasons which somehow make it an irrelevant or unstable system. Either way, those 99% are still knowing and meaning that democracy pertains to that particular idea, and that a representative democracy is merely the _practical_ application of that idea. Now that we have both made clear that we were understanding each other from the beginning, and since arguing for a specific qualifier doesn't change the argument at all, please bear in mind that actual/complete/direct/real democracies don't only ask their citizens to vote on policies. They also ask them to nominate expert positions, propose policies themselves, and debate them. Practically speaking, active citizens in a real democracy are therefore comparable to representatives in a virtual democracy, except they get to have a say on all branches of power rather than just legislative power. So, in summary, it _is_ the case that real democracies remove the problem in discussion, since vote is not the drive for decision making, owing that citizens need not pander to an electorate, and said citizens _do_ decide on policies rather than just vote on them, much like MEPs do in the UK (which can and does involve the nomination of an executive branch rather than relying on an assembly to make executive choices by itself, again just like in the UK). Last but not least, I've said 'odds are you live in a republic', so you can indeed thank me for not assuming where you live, and instead making a warranted probabilistic claim. Still, I'd argue that living in a parliamentary kingdom is not the same thing as living in an actual monarchy, such that what we tend to call a 'parliamentary monarchy' is functionally the same as a parliamentary republic. The president just happens to be a king or queen. All in all, both structures are effectively democratic oligarchies, hence why you think of yourself as living in a democracy on one hand, yet argue that you live in a kingdom/monarchy on the other, even though you know this would make no sense had we taken any of these words by their general meanings (i.e. the meaning of the 99%). By the way, are you gonna argue that the People's Republic of China is a republic because everyone calls it that? Or will you tentatively agree with me that labels and concepts are two separate things, and that a republic, kingdom, or democracy label is not the same thing as a republic, kingdom, or democracy system/concept?
@@lucofparis4819 It feels like you are still missing the point. My criticism of "real" democracy (let us please call it direct democracy because the democracy that exists in modern western countries is very real, and only someone privileged enough to have lived in one such democracy their whole life could be so blasé about it) applies equally to my criticism of existing representative democracy, except it's now on steroids. Please explain to me how you think the problem of public ignorance is going to be helped by giving that public more decision-making power.
I love being a nerd, lol Watching these videos after a 14 hour shift in the lab, woo hoo Corona virus, schmoma virus. Sick of this sh@t!! Love calculus after drinking a little bit of Kamakazi (some will know what I mean). For real, I love this sh!t, haha Sean, you rock!! Now, sleep is overtaking me. Rosk on all you daywalkers. Much love and peace. Stay well my friends.
The heck is wrong with those 32 people 🤣 had heard of you before, but was unaware of your podcasts untill about a week ago, and I am absolutely in love. I've listened to your podcast for about 10 hours today (: (: (:
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Great. Carroll is entering his Feynman lectures stage of his career where he helps us all understand what is going on, but during his lunch break. Thanks Sean.
I was going to give your comment a Thumbs Up, but it's on '42' so I didn't want to ruin the symmetry ;-)
@@Mirrorgirl492 what symmetry?
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@@Mirrorgirl492 But broken symmetries give rise to truly massive results!
Symmetry? -
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“You can run for President with the motto, ‘change’ but no one is gonna run for President with the motto, ‘calculus’. LOL superb.
I feel so privileged to sit in and be a digital student of yours. Thank you so much for these Mr Carroll.
Me too man it’s crazy
Dr carroll !!!!!!
@@vinayak1487 Professor*
@@drwhackadoodle360 cmon guys it’s daddy Carroll 😊
One thing that has always impressed me about Sean is his eloquence. I do not think he reads off a teleprompt, and yet his language is lucid, eloquent, rich in vocabulary, nuanced, and fluent. His statements are not interrupted by interjections like “erm”, he does not even use qualifiers like “sort of”, and his videos appear to be entirely unedited. Also his presentations appear entirely natural, they are not polished in a way a public speaker might deliberately design an address to be impactful. The result is a lecture that is easy to follow, and the listener can use all of their attention to focus on the topic Sean is discussing. Top marks from me! I love this series.
"figure-outable" is definitely my word of the day :) Thanks for the light-heartedness of conveying these ideas
Questions [based on the video] left here over the next day or two will have a chance of being addressed in an upcoming Q&A video!
@SeanCarroll is there an absolute time? Like if we say that speed of light is an absolute speed, can we talk about absolute time. Or is there no absolute time as everything is relative to one another and 'think's' that their time is absolute? #Q&A #QandA
@SeanCarroll As a graphics artist loving your stuff, the white background is a bit tiresome to look at, especially as the rest of your video is primarily dark-ish. Does the app you are drawing in have to possibility to set a color close to dark chalk board with white chalk for text? It would be easier on they eyes and thematically fit well :) I made a mockup, something like this: imgur.com/WMLhxci
😍My new idol.
What does spectrum mean, when designing a detector?
People give Pascal a bad rap for coming up with Pascals wager. Pascal said pressure on a liquid is equal in all directions, no matter where it is measured. Force is pressure x area. He is the father of modern hydraulics.
Free lectures from the Caroll himself?? Yes pleass
Sean is a great communicator. The tenor and pace at which he speaks combined with the simplicity, enthusiasm and energy he puts forth are about as good as I've seen. And that cat is pretty darn big and definitely well cared for.
Titling this ‘Change’ is a smart move by a brilliant professor to drop the c word two minutes in. Loving the videos!
Hi Sean,
Love that you're sharing your knowledge with those of us who are fascinated with physics but may not have the depth of mathematical knowledge required for the full mathematical treatment of the subject. At the same time you're giving us a glimpse of the math and inspiring us to delve further. You seem to truly respect your audience here. Thanks for doing this.
Sean Carroll is honoring us by coming down to the basics, in order to clarify us the implementations of abstracted (thought to be) mathematics in research of the Newtonian properties of nature. Until now such lessons were either too advanced to clearly understand, or too flat in the shake of public simplification. He manages to bridge these aspects and this is great! Thank you Sean!
I hope I'm not the only one, but I really look forward to these video releases given the situation going on around me. Thank you so much Sean for sharing your knowledge, especially during this time. Keep up the great work!!!
What'd you do during lockdown?
Learn Calculus!
It is pure enjoyment to be allowed in to your home and be educated in such a pleasant way.
And the cat is just adorable.
The sound of Sean Carroll's writing and the way it appears on the screen is really nice.
sean is so good at explaining this stuff! Considering how advanced his work and teaching is sean takes the same time and effort for all levels of learning. big fan
I am so grateful that you have taken the time to make these videos (and so many others). You really have changed my life and made physics accessible to me in a way that no one else has. My apparent inability to comprehend the physical world has always haunted me and I can't put into words how good it feels to finally overcome that! This affects me not only on a personal level but a professional one too: I am researching molecular pathology, and learning physical theory helps me to think in a far more logical manner than I did before! Thank you so much - you're an incredible teacher.
I love your use of the term, "figure-outtable." Definitely why you're one of my faves
I think one of my favorite things about your lectures are how you can insert your (very dry) humor without it distracting from the material. Really appreciate you doing these lectures!
For me, not to get a nervous twitch from the word "calculus" and numb off, is already something - but actually getting a sense of what is (might be) going on, is an absolute pleasure - Thank you so much!
Just listening to these lectures walking to my physics class is giving me so much vibes and confidence that I don't know what I'll do when this series will end (sorry for my poor grammar, haven't checked it)
Carroll's enthusiasm for science is contagious. We are so fortunate to have brilliant people like Sean to inspire.
The best science communicator and educator I have ever encountered. Really appreciate the flow of words and ideas; the absence of ahhhh, you know and all the other fillers that people use when public speaking.
Absolutely brilliant.. With my teenagers home, mandatory video. And thay love it. much discussion after. Good stuff.
I have watched many videos on Physics by eminent scientists and they are fascinating. (I used to teach the subject in High School) but Sean has such an engaging and fluent style of delivery. He is an extraordinarily good communicator and probably doesn't even realise it himself. Thank you Sean for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm in such an entertaining way.
Such a brilliant description of the concepts behind calculus!
I also love the dichotomy of an amazing science educator and physicist showing off their cat and apologizing if they destroy the green screen in the middle of the lecture.
Sean Carroll and Brian Greene, two of the greatest physicists of today's times circulating knowledge in these times is hugely applausible
Thank you Sean! You are one of the coolest professors I have ever seen. You explain the stuffs of physics very innocently. Thank you again!
My favorite teacher ever, mysteriously, you make me feel safe to learn, safe to feel emotionally moved by the beauty of Calculus and my growing feeling that the Cosmos embraces my humanity while I embrace it. Thank you. Live Long. Prosper . . . .
Thank you so much for this series! I love the mix between physics & philosophy!
"He didn't even have a telescope - he just looked very very carefully" :D
Thank you Sean, you are doing a fantastic public service. Lots of people’s are trapped, have plenty time on their hands and unfortunately in many cases lots of doomed & gloomed thoughts in their heads. These lectures help people to distract themselves from those thoughts and learn something they might never had a chance to learn in regular, mundane life. THANK YOU.
Love your podcast Professor Carroll. Thank you for all you did.
this is quickly becoming my new favorite youtube series
It's rare to find a nice teacher explaining things. These videos are much better than what I had at university.
My new favorite physics teacher, I will watch the whole series playlist. He says he is not going to get into much detail, but he ends up teaching you a metric ton of interesting detail. You should watch in order if you have the time because he refers to previous lectures often.
Would hate to admit the percentage of this lecture I understood, BUT what little I could comprehend was a step up in my education. So much more to learn so little time.
Thank you! Professor Carroll. This is what education is all about.
Love the cat. Thank you for showing us Caliban. Reviewing the greatest physics discoveries of the human is great too.
Great stuff! My mind boggles at the power of human thought. Also, amazingly, Archimedes came up with his own version of integral calculus.
The Egyptians must have used some form of calculus to approximate pi
This is brilliant! Just discovered it and already recommended to a friend.
Sean Carroll is really wonderful speaker with excellent clarity of ideas. Thanks for his efforts
Sean Carroll is a really dependable person to get some deeper understanding of the human exploration through physics on reality
Thank you Sean for this series. I love your lectures. I haven't touched a physics textbook in 30 years but this is absolutely mesmerizing to me.
Sean: "No one's going to run for president with the motto of seeking calculus"
Andrew Yang: [takes off math cap]
I’ve watched to many physics videos on RUclips but this channel thanks to the Professor work is abSolutely thrilling. It should be mandatory to educate people around the world, with this kind of knowledge, peace on earth would come fast
A more heuristic understanding of integral: The odometer is the integral sum of all the speeds. Changing fast at high speed and not at all when stopped.
A mathematician will not pick up a hitchhiker because he doesn't want to integrate their weight over distance in fuel.
It’s so encouraging that someone as brilliant as Sean Carroll can’t always recall things like Kepler’s laws.
Oh my gosh we got to meet your cat :) I love how you can interrupt some "deep" thoughts to introduce us to your cat :)
so funny, I was waiting for you to spot the x & t - and then you knew i was waiting!
I have not done calculus in 35 years...but somehow I need to go back to it!
great simple explanation, problably if I'd been taught this way calculus, I would have not suffer so much
I wish you were my teacher when I was a student. I finally understand what is calculus for.
Love the series Sean, you are a wonderfull friend the internet gave me. Thank you.
Thank you so much. You're a fantastic communicator and you've renewed my curiosity in the world!
thanks dr. Sean . calculus haunted me since hi school and worse, continues to college. now decades and decades later after this lecture , it's more human like. and I can claim I understand it,even though I would still avoid a calculus problem. thanks for the effort and keep up with the good work. from HKER worldwide
Please, please do not stop posting these videos!
Dr. Carrol, thank you for a great lecture. Cat and Physics, my 2 highlights of the day.
... fascinated by 'maths' all my life ...but couldn't DO it to save my life!... been using lock down to try to (belatedly) get my head 'round what the hell this wonderful Calculus thing is ... 29:30 ... the first crack of dawn in my darkness! ... thank you!
Thank you for reminding me why I fell in love with Physics!!! BTW, our Mathematical Analysis professor told us that before he understood Integration, he'd done over 500 integrals, using all the methods he shared with us. I wasn't as bright, it must have been at least a thousand examples. Good times :)
I’m truly appreciative of the knowledge you are sharing. I enjoy your videos and talks and always come away more enlightened. These big idea videos are wonderful. This is my second time around watching this series. Thanks for all you do to inform average curious people like me.
18:50 "here's my version of a car... " , still better than Cyber-Truck
This made me feel a lot smarter than I actually am.
I took 3 years of math 30 years ago for an engineering degree. I honestly haven't used much of that math over the years. This is a nice reminder of how it all began with Math 200 - Calculus I :)
Sad when you learn in one hour what a bad teacher can't get across in an entire YEAR! Damn Corona Virus had to happen 20 years too late!
I have studied all this but enjoy your explanation very much.
I actually remembered (from 46 years ago when I last had a math class) that phrase "the area under the curve" - but I thought it described the derivative, not the integral. Anyway, thanks Dr. Carroll. Brilliant!
I just love these videos! Finally an interesting podcast :D
I really enjoy your presentation style, thank you for your briiliant videos.
The green-screen is still showing through your hair Sean. You need to dye your hair red. Like Ronald McDonald red. ; )
put a 75 inch cheap ass tv behind and solve all the issues
Exactly what I was gonna say :D
I have a better idea(may not work as much) but how bout an Einstein wig?
How about Donald McTrump orange.
Robert California coming with the fire! I joke, honestly really appreciate these videos, amazing stuff!
33:00 I’ll show thee the best springs. I’ll pluck thee berries.
I’ll fish for thee and get thee wood enough.
A plague upon the tyrant that I serve!
I’ll bear him no more sticks, but follow thee,
Thou wondrous man
When I studied calculus I also wondered why integration was so much more difficult than derivation and the answer that I got satisfied me then and still does. When one is working from observation or data points that are plotted on a graph the function is very often not known. In other words we are looking for a formula that might not yet exist and hence the difficulty. Sorry if I've repeated something somebody else has already said.
Why would that make integration harder than differentiation? Don't you need the function to both integrate and differentiate?
My new favorite series of videos. Thank you.
Great stuff , thanks Professor . Between u, Professor Green n all the other great scientists producing these great videos , it really helps make this tragedy a little less traumatic. Understanding the world at this time is confusing to say the least ! N getting a chance to learn from such high level teachers on a regular basis really takes the edge off !
So... it's the plagues fault I had to learn calculus at high school... of course it was. It all makes sense now...
Although I struggle with the mathematical side of it, I love the philosophical side of physics. Even learning the breakdown of the abridged math designed for the simplest of laymen is fascinating.
I dont know if you read these, Sean, but you're a fantastic science communicator. I'm enjoying these "biggest ideas"
Thanks for this.
Really enjoyed your most recent book.
Thanks for that too🌞
Best wishes
"Consider a spherical car ..." :-D
Titousensei 😂 that is exactly what I thought too
😁😁😁😁
"...spherical COW..." is what he says
I'm loving these Biggest Idea videos! Thanks Sean!
I love these videos. Thank you for making them.
Thank you for these lectures Sean. I’m really enjoying them. And the podcast.
Great video, but I would like to thank the people who helped you with this video. Thanks to your photographer and your stunt double, you guys put on a great show. Many thanks
This series is great, enjoying it very much! Also, in the world of youtube, cats are a feature, not a flaw!
This new series is your best yet. Thanks!
More than happy to have you as president Sean - on the calculus ticket or wherever else you choose to stand
Thanks for these. I'm teaching myself Mechanics with the MIT Opencourseware and it's fun to watch these as a way to sort of check my understanding.
Thanks for these great videos - and thanks for making them free on TouTube! I am enjoying indulging my childhood fantasy of becoming an astrophysicist. During this time of stress and change it is wonderful to take the perspective of the universe for a little while and to take my mind off of the uncertainty by challenging my brain to learn new things.
23.09 pleased about that, I was thinking he's not made a mistake, I just can't see it, it's Sean Carroll!
Awesome examples to describe derivatives and integrals
NICE lecture. Clear and concise.
We all got bamboozled into taking a calculas class. Not that I'm complaining.
“No ones gonna run for president with the motto of seeking calculus” cough cough Andrew Yang
@@nhatmnguyen Basically this is everything wrong with democracy. Most of the ideas on which civilisation is built are not properly understood by most people. In fact, most people do not ever even really think about most of these ideas, let alone understand them.
@@alexpotts6520 Wait, you think you live in an actual democracy? Fascinating, coming from a person who complains about people's misunderstanding of their civilisational foundations. Odds are, you currently live in a republic, and you are in the process of complaining about problems specific to republics, _not_ democracies.
In fact, these problems are inevitable features of republics, not bugs, and are pretty much necessary for these systems to function. With democracies, on the other hand, citizens are not objects of political power, acting as voting props for the real subjects of political power. Instead, they are subjects of power themselves and are therefore exposed to, and accountable for, political matters actually being discussed, rather than watered down exposition about them, tailored to fit as four words slogans.
@@lucofparis4819 When I use the word "democracy", I am using it like 99% of people would. I would be the first to say that, in general, 99% of people believing something doesn't make it true, but in this particular case, words are just signifiers, created by humans themselves, and hence they mean whatever the consensus of English speakers agrees them to mean. In this specific context, the 99% majority definition of a word is ipso facto the correct one. So I don't care much for arguments that rely on defining a word in a way that the vast majority of people do not recognise.
As for your point generally, a system of what is normally called "direct democracy" (as opposed to the representative democracy which is generally what people are talking about when they use the word "democracy" without a qualifier) is also flawed. Having people vote directly on policy, as opposed to voting for representatives who then decide policy on their behalf, doesn't remove the fundamental problem - the world is too complicated for people to make informed voting decisions.
Oh, and finally, I live in Britain. Which is famously *not* a republic, thank you very much.
@@alexpotts6520 Then you're not talking about a democracy, but a democratic oligarchy, i.e. the government of the few, under the legitimacy of the people, which is the founding tenet of the republic system.
You may argue over the definition of a democracy all you want, you're still acknowledging its intended meaning by understanding that representative democracies are only indirectly democratic, which is to say everybody knows they're not, including the aforementioned 99%.
The usual thinking (the 99%) implies that a direct democracy does not, or cannot, exist, for practical reasons which somehow make it an irrelevant or unstable system. Either way, those 99% are still knowing and meaning that democracy pertains to that particular idea, and that a representative democracy is merely the _practical_ application of that idea.
Now that we have both made clear that we were understanding each other from the beginning, and since arguing for a specific qualifier doesn't change the argument at all, please bear in mind that actual/complete/direct/real democracies don't only ask their citizens to vote on policies. They also ask them to nominate expert positions, propose policies themselves, and debate them. Practically speaking, active citizens in a real democracy are therefore comparable to representatives in a virtual democracy, except they get to have a say on all branches of power rather than just legislative power.
So, in summary, it _is_ the case that real democracies remove the problem in discussion, since vote is not the drive for decision making, owing that citizens need not pander to an electorate, and said citizens _do_ decide on policies rather than just vote on them, much like MEPs do in the UK (which can and does involve the nomination of an executive branch rather than relying on an assembly to make executive choices by itself, again just like in the UK).
Last but not least, I've said 'odds are you live in a republic', so you can indeed thank me for not assuming where you live, and instead making a warranted probabilistic claim. Still, I'd argue that living in a parliamentary kingdom is not the same thing as living in an actual monarchy, such that what we tend to call a 'parliamentary monarchy' is functionally the same as a parliamentary republic. The president just happens to be a king or queen. All in all, both structures are effectively democratic oligarchies, hence why you think of yourself as living in a democracy on one hand, yet argue that you live in a kingdom/monarchy on the other, even though you know this would make no sense had we taken any of these words by their general meanings (i.e. the meaning of the 99%). By the way, are you gonna argue that the People's Republic of China is a republic because everyone calls it that? Or will you tentatively agree with me that labels and concepts are two separate things, and that a republic, kingdom, or democracy label is not the same thing as a republic, kingdom, or democracy system/concept?
@@lucofparis4819 It feels like you are still missing the point. My criticism of "real" democracy (let us please call it direct democracy because the democracy that exists in modern western countries is very real, and only someone privileged enough to have lived in one such democracy their whole life could be so blasé about it) applies equally to my criticism of existing representative democracy, except it's now on steroids. Please explain to me how you think the problem of public ignorance is going to be helped by giving that public more decision-making power.
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I love these podcasts; maybe I will finally "get' math...such a good visual teacher for a visual learner! thank you , Sean Carroll!!! very much
I haven't done calculus for 20+ years. I should do a refresher.
Guess there is some good in this global epidemic....Prof Green and Carroll uploading science videos...👍
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