The Big Picture: From the Big Bang to the Meaning of Life - with Sean Carroll

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  @TheRoyalInstitution · 8 years ago · pinned

  Important announcement : we've dropped the audio levels on our deafening intro! On a scale of mouse whisper to jet plane, how's it sound?

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  @peteryang84 · 8 years ago

  What's most underrated in Sean Carrol's lecture is the absence of annoying umm or so, resulting in an orderly and clean (high entropy) learning experience.

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  @krishnankuttykunnampallil8197 · 4 years ago

  We feel a rare beauty in his speeches. Always aesthetically satisfying, intellectually edifying, and morally ennobling.

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• KI

  @killjaqular · 8 years ago

  this man&apos;s persona/character/showmanship, vibes just like Richard Feynman&apos;s.<br>that&apos;s a compliment.

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  @Raptorel · 8 years ago

  I can&apos;t get enough of Sean Carroll. I think he&apos;s the best science communicator that we currently have - he is simply brilliant, has a subtle sense of humor, a great communicator, great voice, patient, well-intentioned, genuine, and very logically consistent. And yes, I did read &quot;The Big Picture&quot;.

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  @ScottWengel · 7 years ago

  i think this may be one of the most efficient or important 1-hour lectures a layperson could listen to

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  @manuelbolivar9791 · 8 years ago

  Sean has a particularly poetic way to convey extremely complex ideas. His last words in the lecture made realize that there are plenty of subjects that are worth to be involved with. Thanks for posting.

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  @4305051 · 7 years ago

  So grateful to the RI for producing and publishing these online. &nbsp;Great stuff.

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  @lenn939 · 6 years ago (edited)

  Listening to Sean Carroll talk about science is always such a treat. His ability to communicate complex ideas in a way that is very accessible yet doesn&apos;t feel oversimplified or dumbed down is a rare treasure which the scientifically (and philosophically) curious public can be immensely grateful for. Not everyone can become a theoretical physicist and comprehensively understand humanity&apos;s best theories about the fundamental nature of reality, but thanks to people like Sean, us non-physicists can at least get a taste of the marvels and puzzles which physical theory has in store for us.<br><br>I&apos;d also like to express my gratitude to The Royal Institution for making these ideas available to a wide audience. I think it&apos;s a real shame how relatively small the audience for these accessible yet scientifically rigorous ideas still is and how large the market for pseudoscience and pop science that has been oversimplified to the point of meaninglessness remains. What you public communicators of science are doing is a very noble thing indeed and it seems to me that you don&apos;t receive nearly the amount of praise you deserve for this. Please rest assured that what you&apos;re doing has had and continues to have a great impact on the mindset of many (young) people such as myself. Let&apos;s hope that this is just the beginning.

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  @KieranGarland · 8 years ago

  My favourite public communicator of science, doing his thing. Great talk, thanks for sharing.

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  @rafaelagenda8296 · 5 years ago

  The beauty of the internet! For a Ugandan to have access to such a lecture!

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  @ryantan8666 · 8 years ago

  I like how he doesn&apos;t apologise for the use of an equation

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