{"id":223628,"date":"2025-10-18T11:02:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/sean-carroll-can-we-ever-escape-the-logic-of-a-clockwork-universe"},"modified":"2025-10-18T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:02:23","slug":"sean-carroll-can-we-ever-escape-the-logic-of-a-clockwork-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/sean-carroll-can-we-ever-escape-the-logic-of-a-clockwork-universe","title":{"rendered":"Sean Carroll: Can we ever escape the logic of a clockwork universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3;\" src=\"https:\/\/bigthinkmedia.substack.com\/embed\/podcast\/sean-carroll-can-we-ever-escape-the?autoplay=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What if the universe is a machine, and every moment in our past, present, and future is already encoded in the positions of its particles?<\/p>\n<p>Physicist Sean Carroll explores the unsettling implications of classical mechanics, from Newton\u2019s laws to Laplace\u2019s thought experiment, showing how determinism challenges the very idea of free will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if the universe is a machine, and every moment in our past, present, and future is already encoded in the positions of its particles? Physicist Sean Carroll explores the unsettling implications of classical mechanics, from Newton\u2019s laws to Laplace\u2019s thought experiment, showing how determinism challenges the very idea of free will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}