Sean Carroll: Why the Crisis in Fundamental Physics Is Deepening

Sean Carroll examines why the crisis in fundamental physics is deepening, from holographic ideas to the difficulty of funding unconventional research. He also delves into philosophical questions, discussing poetic naturalism, morality, and aesthetics in science.

- 00:00 - Intro
- 01:23 - Sean’s Current Work (Holographic Principle)
- 07:02 - Duality in De Sitter Spacetime
- 14:24 - “Let’s Talk About Philosophy”
- 30:36 - The Crisis in Fundamental Physics
- 45:02 - Pseudoscience / Heterodox Ideas
- 50:30 - Unconventional Physics Theories
- 56:02 - Funding Unconventional Theories
- 01:00:58 - “The Experimenters Are Guided by Theorists”
- 01:02:45 - Sean’s Latest Paper “Beyond Falsifiability”
- 01:11:17 - Poetic Naturalism
- 01:13:00 - Morals, Aesthetics, Philosophy
- 01:16:44 - Boltzman
- 01:22:25 - The Big Bang
- 01:24:58 - Holography / Quantum Gravity
- 01:28:40 - “Publish or Perish!”
- 01:33:30 - Dark Matter
- 01:36:05 - Something New to Blow Your Mind
- 01:39:22 - Loop Quantum Gravity
- 01:49:56 - Outro / Support TOE

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