If you find an egg in your refrigerator, you're not surprised. You don't say, 'Wow, that's a low-entropy configuration. That's unusual,' because you know that the egg is not alone in the universe. It came out of a chicken, which… — Sean M. Carroll Copy Share Image
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
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
