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Sean M. Carroll Biography

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Sean M. Carroll is a renowned theoretical physicist specializing in cosmology and particle physics. Born on October 5, 1966, he is known for his in-depth research on the origin and structure of the universe.

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“The fact that you can remember yesterday but not tomorrow is because of entropy. The fact that you're always born young and then you grow older, and not the other way around like Benjamin Button - it's all because of entropy. So I think that entropy is underappreciated as something that has a crucial role in how we go through life.”

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“Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.”

World Way Looks Kind Littles Ideas Self Figures Atheist Collections Atoms Molecules Breathtaking

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“Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.”

Firsts Moments Facts Universe That Moment Moments In Time

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“Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.”

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“The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.”

Matter Universe Hours No Matter What Speed

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“God is not described in equations.”

Equations

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“The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.”

World Magic

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“There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.”

Existence Quantum Verbs Quantum Mechanics Craziness Popping

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“There is no such thing as outside the universe, as far as we can tell.”

Universe

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“All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe.”

Kind Matter Universe Energy Stuff Percent Particles Laboratory Matter And Energy

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“We are not significant on the cosmic scale.”

Significant Scales Cosmic

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“We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news.”

Important Universe News Bad News

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“The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.”

“We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.”

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Author:Sean M. Carroll

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Born: October 5, 1966
Known for: Scientist
Quotes: 15

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