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Sean Carroll: Exploring Quanta and Fields

Sean Carroll: Exploring Quanta and Fields

FromCommonwealth Club of California Podcast


Sean Carroll: Exploring Quanta and Fields

FromCommonwealth Club of California Podcast

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Length:
68 minutes
Released:
May 21, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Ready for an adventure into the “bare stuff of reality”?
Join us for a special online program when theoretical physicist Sean Carroll returns to the Club on the occasion of the publication of his new book Quanta and Fields, the second book of his internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. Quantum field theory is how modern physics describes nature at its most profound level. Starting with the basics of quantum mechanics itself, Carroll explains measurement and entanglement before explaining how the world is really made of fields.
Why is matter solid? Why is there antimatter? Where do the sizes of atoms come from? And why are the predictions of quantum field theory so spectacularly successful? Carroll explains fundamental ideas like spin, symmetry, Feynman diagrams, and the Higgs mechanism are explained.
Sean Carroll is creating a new approach to sharing physics with a broad audience, one that goes beyond analogies to show how physicists really think. He cuts to the bare mathematical essence of our most profound theories, explaining every step in a uniquely accessible way.
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Released:
May 21, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

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