{"id":233896,"date":"2026-03-23T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/sean-m-carroll"},"modified":"2026-03-23T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:07:00","slug":"sean-m-carroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/sean-m-carroll","title":{"rendered":"Sean M. Carroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_TBNJyztai0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up next, The Multiverse is real. Just not in the way you think it is. \u25ba \u2022 The Multiverse is real. Just not in the wa\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Physics seems complicated, until you realize why it works so well, says physicist Sean Carroll, revealing the basis of the field\u2019s greatest successes: Radical simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll takes us from Newton\u2019s clockwork universe to Laplace\u2019s demon, to Einstein\u2019s spacetime revolution, exploring the historical shockwaves each breakthrough caused. If you\u2019ve wondered how stripping the world down to its simplest parts can reveal deeper truths, this is where that story begins.<\/p>\n<p>00:00:00 Radical simplicity in physics.<br \/> 00:00:55 Chapter 1: The physics of free will.<br \/> 00:04:55 Laplace\u2019s Demon.<br \/> 00:06:27 The clockwork universe paradigm.<br \/> 00:07:41 Determinism and compatibilism.<br \/> 00:08:45 Chapter 2: The invention of spacetime.<br \/> 00:17:30: Einstein\u2019s general theory of relativity.<br \/> 00:24:27 Chapter 3: The quantum revolution.<br \/> 00:28:05 The 2 biggest ideas in physics.<br \/> 00:32:27 Visualizing physics.<br \/> 00:38:17 Quantum field theory.<br \/> 00:46:51 The Higgs boson particle.<br \/> 00:47:28 The standard model of particle physics.<br \/> 00:52:53 The core theory of physics.<br \/> 01:02:03 The measurement problem.<br \/> 01:13:47 Chapter 4: The power of collective genius.<br \/> 01:16:19 A timeline of the theories of physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI like to say that physics is hard because physics is easy, by which I mean we actually think about physics as students.\u201d Up next, The Multiverse is real. Just not in the way you think it is. \u25ba \u2022 The Multiverse is real. Just not in the wa\u2026 Physics seems complicated, until you realize [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,47,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233896","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}