The Big Picture: From the Big Bang to the Meaning of Life - with Sean Carroll
Award-winning scientist and writer Sean Carroll ties together the fundamental laws of physics governing the workings of the cosmos with the everyday human experience we all share. Subscribe...
========== Thanks Pat, thanks to the Royal Institution for having me back This is one of my favourite places to come visit and I thought that I would in the tradition of Michael Faraday and Humphrey Davy, and all the greats. Who've stood more or less in this place Begin the lecture by doing an experiment Now I'm a theoretical physicist. I'm not an experimenter, so don't get your hopes up too high But I would like to do an experiment that illuminates the fundamental nature of motion Ok so you see here. We have an object It's a book you can buy it and the finest book stores everywhere And we're going to observe what happens to the object Nothing much happens to the object is the short answer to it it just sits there, but I can if I push on the o...