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The Multiverse is having a moment. From âRick and Mortyâ to Marvel movies, the idea that our Universe is just one of many has inspired countless storylines in recent popular culture.
Why is the Multiverse so compelling? To theoretical physicist and philosopher Sean Carroll, one reason is that weâre drawn to wondering how things might have turned out differently. What if you had chosen a different career path? Married someone else? Moved to a different city?
Of course, thereâs obviously no guarantee that youâre living out those alternate timelines in a different universe. But there are real scientific reasons to think that the Multiverse exists. And as Carroll explains, that possibility comes with some fascinating philosophical implications.
Read the video transcript âș bigthink.com/series/the-big-think-interview/multivâŠ
0:00 Hollywoodâs Multiverse
1:35 Physicsâ Multiverse: Cosmology vs. Many Worlds
3:28 The Many Worlds theory
4:25 Are there many versions of you?
6:39 Your alternate lives
8:09 Your one life in our Universe
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About Sean Carroll:
Dr. Sean Carroll is Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy â in effect, a joint appointment between physics and philosophy â at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Most of his career has been spent doing research on cosmology, field theory, and gravitation, looking at topics such as dark matter and dark energy, modified gravity, topological defects, extra dimensions, and violations of fundamental symmetries. These days, his focus has shifted to more foundational questions, both in quantum mechanics (origin of probability, emergence of space and time) and statistical mechanics (entropy and the arrow of time, emergence and causation, dynamics of complexity), bringing a more philosophical dimension to his work.
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imagine a parallel world where Sean Carrol argues vehemently against the multiverse idea
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So there may well be a parallel universe where you made all the right decisions, became a rock star, an astronaut, or a Hollywood celebrity, but it still wont change the fact that you are stuck in this universe where you are sitting watching a YouTube and wondering if multiverses are real or not.
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So 9 ad breaks is appropriate right
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i make the bad decisions so me in another timeline can thrive
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Imagine a different universe for every picosecond of every directional spin of every electron in our universe. Effectively infinite.
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I can listen to Sean Carroll all damn day. He is one of the best communicators of science.
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The thing they did with the two opposite tables with identical plant pots but with slightly different orientations and plant types is really awesome in paying attention to detail.
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"If anything, it is the quantum measurements that force you to make a decision. Not your decision forcing different universes to come into existence." - Sean Carroll
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"...there are some decisions you can't undo."
That's also my wife's argument about her mother living in our house, of which I regretfully agreed to.
I could use a soul swap with any other me out there in the multiverse, any day now.
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I don't spend much time thinking about universes where one decision made my life different, but I do wonder about universes where different outcomes millions of years ago led to completely different worlds. Say, a world where a type of dinosaur became sapient. Or a mollusk. Or a miacid. Or even something as close as a different primate. The possibilities seem endless.
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I get that perspective and see how it can help. But I also found it helpful to think it's possible to "change" the past through actions done today. Not in the literal sense of actually altering events in the past, but in the sense that, if we change the way we think about the past or learn about it more, we can effectively change our understanding of it. So if you do a good deed or reveal truths formerly kept hidden ,you can alter the way people understand the past and thereby also influencing the future. This is not at all supposed to be taken as concretely literal.
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I love the mirrored set in the episode about the multiverse. That was clever.
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Dr. Carroll is an amazing intellectual not just because of his intellect and expertise, but also because he able to explain these very complex concepts in such a concise and lucid way as to allow others who don't have the same background and education to understand.
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The background sound of this video is top notch! Give that person a raise! Keep in mind without the background music itâs just an informative talk-show but with the BG sound itâs easier to pay attention
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Thank you for the amazing videos. Youâve really taught me to wonder again. đ Request: Iâd love to hear about how the splitting universes are getting âthinnerâ (although the occupants wouldnât notice). Can you talk more about this? How does this work and why? Would there be any observable artefacts of this? Thank you
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My take on time travel, though it is always fun to postulate, is that if you were to go back to a former period in time, the entire universe would need to conspire to do the same.
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I enjoy Sean Carroll's explanations. I had trouble understanding some quantum mechanics/physics principles and watch a multipart lecture series of his and finally got it in a way that I could explain it to others. Which, I think is an important part of learning.
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And one of the earliest proponents of the multiverse, or a version of it, is David Deutsche of Oxford. Deutsch also is considered one of the most important pioneers of quantum computation...
I randomly came across his THE FABRIC OF REALITY years ago, shortly after college when it first came out, and still remember the gist of it to this day... especially on his argument about why immensely powerful algorithms like Shor's algorithms are possible... and such algorithms, or the logic of it, are possible only --- Deutsch posited in THE FABRIC OF REALITY ---- because of there are more universes than just our own local one...
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Our obsession with the idea of a multiverse is a simple escape from responsibility. "Out there, another version of me is doing great things, so I can slack off and let the planet burn."
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@larryfulkerson4505
1 year ago
For a long time I thought Sean Carroll was a theoritical physist but it turns out that he's a real live person after all.
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