The particular aspect of time that I'm interested in is the arrow of time: the fact that the past is different from the future. We remember the past but we don't remember the future. There are irreversible processes. There are… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
The weird thing about the arrow of time is that it's not to be found in the underlying laws of physics. It's not there. So it's a feature of the universe we see, but not a feature of the laws… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer that science is part of a larger cultural thing. Science is not all by itself. — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
One of the tragedies of our educational system is that we've taken this incredibly interesting subject - how the universe works - and made… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
I've loved physics from a young age, but I've also been interested in all sorts of big questions, from philosophy to evolution and neuroscience.… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
The simplest way out of the puzzle of time travel is to say that it can't be done. That's very likely the right answer.… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
Our conviction that green cheese makes up a negligible fraction of the Moon's interior comes not from direct observation but from the gross incompatibility… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
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… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
As we get older, we tend to grow quite fond of the planets of belief we have constructed for ourselves. We build elaborate defense… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened! — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
We seek an understanding of the laws of nature and of our particular universe in which everything makes sense to us. We do not… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
People don't realize how many aspects of our lives are touched in one way or another by not just the discoveries, the technological breakthroughs,… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
Something can be real - actually existing, not merely illusory - and yet not be fundamental. Scientists used to think that heat, for example,… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
Claims that some form of consciousness persists after our bodies die and decay into their constituent atoms face one huge, insuperable obstacle: the laws… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
The idea that time is an illusion is an old one, predating any Times Square ball drop or champagne celebrations. It reaches back to… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share
