Talking about the Higgs Boson - Sixty Symbols

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  • Sean's book on this: amzn.to/Nvdn8P
    More from our recent chat with cosmologist Sean Carroll. His book about the Higgs Boson is called The Particle at the End of Universe. Check his website for more: preposterousuniverse.com/
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  • @tonysouter8095
    @tonysouter8095 Před 7 lety +119

    For training academics, I use Sean Carroll as the gold standard for science communication. He makes his listeners feel so good about themselves. The smile in his voice, on his talking mouth, conveys his utter joy at the science. It's inspiring.

  • @Xasperato
    @Xasperato Před 8 lety +317

    He's a smooth speaker.

    • @yaribsuarez8725
      @yaribsuarez8725 Před 8 lety +1

      yeah

    • @jeanqnguyen4542
      @jeanqnguyen4542 Před 6 lety +3

      Yup smooth operator, aren’t we suckers for geekazoids ...I think 😍I’m in love

    • @Fahumsixtysix
      @Fahumsixtysix Před 6 lety +1

      That's Americans for you ;)

    • @lostindixie
      @lostindixie Před 4 lety +1

      His side gig is doing voice overs for commercials. Pays the bills for his science hobbies.

    • @saleplains
      @saleplains Před 3 lety

      look up "the great courses" its a series of audio lectures available on audible he did a couple its basically hours and hours of this. hes an excellent lecturer makes the most complicated stuff comprehensible

  • @Zubzub343
    @Zubzub343 Před 10 lety +193

    This guy is one of the best I've ever seen on CZcams videos explaining things.

    • @imadgibbs9063
      @imadgibbs9063 Před 10 lety +11

      He's definitely up there with Neil Degrasse, Feynman and Sagan.

    • @paulmichaelfreedman8334
      @paulmichaelfreedman8334 Před 9 lety +29

      And not a single Uhhh, or Ahhh to be heard.
      Excellent speaker. Excellent.

    • @nickeshchauhan5661
      @nickeshchauhan5661 Před 9 lety +10

      Paul Freedman Sorry, 11:39. But I agree, he's a great communicator and incredibly smart.

    • @masondodd7252
      @masondodd7252 Před 9 lety +3

      Zubzub343 he's extremely engaging. Couldn't imagine having someone like that for a professor

    • @TomLeg
      @TomLeg Před 7 lety +1

      11:04

  • @mayamoimayamoi5215
    @mayamoimayamoi5215 Před 10 lety +86

    Wonderful. So nice to hear an interviewer asking just the right questions and I could listen to Sean answer them all day. love this

  • @TheMasonX23
    @TheMasonX23 Před 8 lety +154

    Brady is planning to either outlive or outright murder Sean...

    • @Vitringur
      @Vitringur Před 7 lety +7

      It will probably look like an accident

  • @WeeWeeJumbo
    @WeeWeeJumbo Před 8 lety +41

    Such a poised speaker

  • @tadizzleh2109
    @tadizzleh2109 Před 8 lety +41

    Inspiring video. I'm stuck in undergraduate Physics and these talks inspire me to keep going.

    • @errmoc5682
      @errmoc5682 Před 7 lety +3

      i would consider yourself very fortunate :)

    • @merlinthegreat100
      @merlinthegreat100 Před 7 lety +3

      tadizzle h I'm about to join you. Read Black Holes & Time Warps , it inspired me even more. Our duty is to explain and understand the universe to the best of our ability

  • @stureeks6594
    @stureeks6594 Před 7 lety +19

    A simply beautiful lay explanation of Higgs and the importance of fields. The pair of pianos analogy, in particular, was fantastic. Thank you all for taking the time to make to make these videos. They are a credit to science and journalism. Now, more on fields please.

  • @0xCAFEF00D
    @0xCAFEF00D Před 7 lety +15

    I really like Sean's explanation. We need more of him.

  • @bananamaniac2
    @bananamaniac2 Před 9 lety +56

    I like this guy.

  • @Kitsua
    @Kitsua Před 11 lety +1

    I really like how Sean Carroll explains things. Aside from being very knowledgable and lucid, he has a particularly mellifluous voice.

  • @GerSHAK
    @GerSHAK Před 8 lety +46

    I only recently got into Sixty Symbols, and I'm quite astonished to find out that Gilderoy Lockhart is now a particle physicist??

  • @RichardvsHimself
    @RichardvsHimself Před 11 lety +2

    I swear Brady you manage to come up with some of the most interesting questions when interviewing your subjects - like the question at the end about not being able to see future experiments or tell past scientists your current discoveries - part of why I think you're such a good documentary film maker

  • @Nehmo
    @Nehmo Před 6 lety +23

    I'm 63 (born 1954), and I believe the main questions of the universe were answered in my lifetime. I witnessed the rise of dark matter, the settlement of the debate over the dinosaur extinction, the discovery that the universe is accelerating in its expansion, the discrete transistor to integrated circuit evolution, the advent of human space travel, the move from prop to jet engines on planes, the development of GPS, cell phones, the understanding that protons and neutrons are composed of quarks and gluons, the confirmation of the Higgs field, the discovery of quantum entanglement, the internet...
    But people of all times thought they were special. Am I just suckered by my perspective? My father (who had his kids late in life and was born 1902) could claim in his lifetime there was special relativity, general relativity, the discovery of the atomic nucleus, the discovery of galaxies beyond our own, the beginnings of the electronic revolution, two world wars, atomic energy, antibiotics, etc…I've considered that, and still, I conclude my lifetime is special. Indeed, I’ve got my father beat. But what’s next? It's hard to envision how the next generations can keep up the pace of advancement.

    • @UrsusSuperior44
      @UrsusSuperior44 Před 4 lety +5

      Nehmo Sergheyev
      I'm 40 years younger than you and I am pretty certain that any generation that will come after us till the end of humanity will have moments like us and perceive them as we do.
      My short lifespan of 25 years was enough for me to see that in fact we as mankind are accelerating in terms of scientific discovery.
      I personally assume that present days "forte" is artificial intelligence and bioengineering.
      Let me ask you - were you worried about what the discoveries of your younger days? What they could/would/actually led to?
      Because I myself am a little worried about the direction some people in the community would like/are about to take.
      Maybe it's just the same pattern - every generation is "all gloom and doom" about scientific discoveries of their times, way too worried about what might come?

  • @RimstarOrg
    @RimstarOrg Před 11 lety +12

    Does anyone else think Brady's really worried about what he's going to miss out on 60 or 70 years from now? Can't say I blame him though.

  • @DrDress
    @DrDress Před 7 lety +11

    4:47 "a little bit of detective work" that's quite the understatement :-)

  • @davidmafullul6181
    @davidmafullul6181 Před 8 lety +25

    Ed's face at 2:05 gets me everytime aha

    • @edd8914
      @edd8914 Před 7 lety +2

      Ed Copeland's enthusiasm is infectious

  • @b33lze6u6
    @b33lze6u6 Před 9 lety +17

    i believe the phrase " its about the journey, not the destination" sums up the last part of the video

    • @NEprimo
      @NEprimo Před 6 lety +1

      b33lze6u6 Oath of the Radiant

  • @bigguix
    @bigguix Před 6 lety

    Such a wonderful way to end the interview. I'm struggling everyday with the fact that I just have this one little slice of time to interact with the world and that I will never be able to experience what was or what will be... The way he puts it comforts me and will help me get rid of that never-ending melancholy of the only-1-life constat.

  • @brendanbramman
    @brendanbramman Před 11 lety

    I feel like this video helped to clarify this topic better than any others I've watched, and I've watched so many trying to understand it. Thanks a lot Brady!

  • @PositronsPlay
    @PositronsPlay Před 11 lety +1

    I started reading his book about a week ago, and am so happy to see this video!

  • @PlastikGUbilationz
    @PlastikGUbilationz Před 11 lety

    THANK YOU Brady for such a heart-warming and soul-stirring video about scientific motivation!!! It's just so gratuitous to know there are people out there who are so dedicated to, what i like to call, humanity's fundamental destiny as intelligent beings; especially after having to put up with life's bs like politics, popular media etc. This channel is truly something special!

  • @superhacker35
    @superhacker35 Před 4 lety

    This extremely fundamental description of the 4 Elements that explain the entire universe is exactly what I have been looking for since days! thanks

  • @duositex
    @duositex Před 11 lety

    Fantastic video Brady and Sean. Beautiful encapsulation of mortality vs. the immortality of knowledge.

  • @machouchacha
    @machouchacha Před 11 lety

    The very last answer is amazing in all its wisdom and simplicity. Thank you.

  • @bryanroland9402
    @bryanroland9402 Před 2 lety

    My favourite science communicator interviewed by my favourite interviewer. A real treat.

  • @AussieEvonne
    @AussieEvonne Před 11 lety +1

    Sean Carroll not only explains things well in this video, he has a great voice.

  • @Huli-Man
    @Huli-Man Před 11 lety

    This has so high production value! it was an amazing video. Thanks

  • @MrMotchel
    @MrMotchel Před 11 lety +1

    Excellent discussion! Thank you!

  • @craigcottam
    @craigcottam Před 11 lety

    Wow, what a voice and such a casual ability to explain complicated things. Why have I not seen him presenting doco's on this stuff?

  • @pjlehtim
    @pjlehtim Před 11 lety +1

    This makes me love science even more than I already did! Thank you for posting this.

  • @UFObloggger
    @UFObloggger Před 11 lety

    Good interview with this brilliant cosmologist.waiting for other interviews

  • @lesconrads
    @lesconrads Před 11 lety

    such a good speaker!
    Also - I like your ability to ask those questions. Need to be so quick, thinking about what to ask next.

  • @davidsweeney111
    @davidsweeney111 Před 11 lety

    I really cant get enough of what professor Sean Carroll has to say, it blows my mind. More!

  • @Nexus2Eden
    @Nexus2Eden Před 11 lety

    What a brilliant and articulate man, I would love to attend any lecture of his ~ it would be fascinating and enjoyable. Great work Brady.

  • @thejumperkin
    @thejumperkin Před 11 lety

    I love Sean's description of the fields. He is a great speaker

  • @kasuha
    @kasuha Před 11 lety

    Thank you very much, this is one of best videos about Higgs I have ever seen.

  • @supermaucat
    @supermaucat Před 11 lety

    Sean Carroll is one of my fav teachers to listen to. His courses are amazing.

  • @Asinineconcepts
    @Asinineconcepts Před 11 lety

    What a great interview thank you for providing this video it made my day.

  • @theHiddenStone
    @theHiddenStone Před 11 lety

    Thanks for this - first time I've heard this explained in a way which made any kind of sense to me!

  • @arthur78
    @arthur78 Před 11 lety

    I have watched hours of talks and presentations from Sean Carroll. I'm a fan.

  • @50Janoh
    @50Janoh Před 11 lety

    great interview. informative with interesting questions

  • @heyimrobee
    @heyimrobee Před 11 lety

    I`m soo happy to be able to watch this while having my breakfast.
    Just open CZcams and in 10 seconds I'm watching something interesting, which I've never heard of.
    Technology is amazing.
    And thank you guys for making such brilliant programmes!

  • @whatisthebigpicture
    @whatisthebigpicture Před 11 lety

    I like the way he talkes and explains things - I'd like to see more videos with Sean.

  • @sponsoredmadness
    @sponsoredmadness Před 11 lety

    Good to see videos explaining things simply and not just spouting media buzzwords. Keep up the great work over there.

  • @rogerdotlee
    @rogerdotlee Před 11 lety

    WOOT! Well done again. It was worth the wait (including withdrawal symptoms).

  • @anthony19735
    @anthony19735 Před 11 lety

    I love listening to Sean. More please.

  • @lolopueo
    @lolopueo Před 11 lety

    Just started "The Particle at the End of the Universe", it has helped me make more sense out of quantum mechanics than any other book thus far, which isn't saying much but thanks all the same.

  • @auchucknorris
    @auchucknorris Před 11 lety

    i really like this particular video, science is always amazing and the entire journey not just the end result of what the ultimate answer turns out to be,

  • @JonnyBertilsson
    @JonnyBertilsson Před 8 lety

    Very well explained, go for it. Love it.

  • @puremuakorvaan
    @puremuakorvaan Před 11 lety

    So great that also we get to know what's up in Cern thanks to your video.

  • @ceer9141
    @ceer9141 Před 6 lety

    Amazing! Easy to follow, thank you!

  • @ShiroKage009
    @ShiroKage009 Před 11 lety

    Thanks for saying this. Every professor, who's an active researcher, that I have met so far was always fascinated by the knowledge they get from their research and the research conducted by others. They would even listen to me talking about a freak paper I read somewhere and would try and to extract as much info about that topic as I can offer.
    Most basic research done is done for the sake of knowing first. Benefits come 3rd or 4th down the list.

  • @ToxisLT
    @ToxisLT Před 11 lety

    Please give us more Sean Carroll.. I am always almost hypnotized by his voice and his ability to explain extraordinary stuff in a language that is understandable even to a moron like myself. If you haven't already, find/buy Sean's TTC lectures, they are simply awesome...
    Ok, back to youtube culture - Gief Sean NAO:)

  • @Ledjye
    @Ledjye Před 11 lety

    You could say that it's like looking at the universe in layers. Even though it's not the real way the universe works, it makes it easier to pick out what you're looking for among the noise. Like if you take a full colour photo, but you only want to see red, so you put filter over it which mutes and removes all the other colours so you can more easily focus on what most concerned you.

  • @davidsweeney111
    @davidsweeney111 Před 11 lety +1

    Now this is the kind of stuff that gets your blood racing, wow, bring it on Sean, give us more !

  • @higdonalex
    @higdonalex Před 11 lety

    This is probably the clearest explanation of the Higgs Boson I've ever heard. Thank you!

  • @ERW311
    @ERW311 Před 11 lety

    ErgoCogita, both your comments are awesome and made my night!

  • @Rick_McDick
    @Rick_McDick Před 11 lety

    i could listen to this guy talk all day

  • @deenibeeniable
    @deenibeeniable Před 11 lety

    I love it that there is always lots of dense stuff on all their blackboards that wasn't put there by a set designer, like the one on Good Will Hunting.

  • @WhoClashQueenStones
    @WhoClashQueenStones Před 11 lety

    Thanks for clarifying, Mr.S

  • @NikkiDussault
    @NikkiDussault Před 11 lety

    Brady, as always, an absolute pleasure.

  • @Glassjaw003
    @Glassjaw003 Před 11 lety

    Loved his answer at the end.

  • @lennutrajektoor
    @lennutrajektoor Před 11 lety

    Fascinating video!

  • @BenHartelProductions
    @BenHartelProductions Před 11 lety

    I want to see more interviews from this guy. He just boggled my mind.

  • @odlsej
    @odlsej Před 11 lety

    The best Sixty Symbols video EVER!

  • @esdev92
    @esdev92 Před 11 lety

    He explains it so well.

  • @basestudent
    @basestudent Před 11 lety

    Shout out to Brady for asking awesome questions!

  • @WheatThin55Edu
    @WheatThin55Edu Před 11 lety

    I'm holding his book right now! Great read.

  • @AlanKey86
    @AlanKey86 Před 11 lety

    "Every generation gets to apply the talents it has to the problems that its faced with... there are so many great problems, we are at no loss for interesting questions to puzzle over"
    There's a great quote if ever I heard one!

  • @georgecoke2811
    @georgecoke2811 Před 11 lety

    Nice video, well said Sean.

  • @ThisIsTheJer
    @ThisIsTheJer Před 11 lety

    I'd love to see more videos with Sean Carroll!

  • @hqs9585
    @hqs9585 Před rokem

    Fascinated video , !

  • @naybobdenod
    @naybobdenod Před 11 lety

    What an outstanding video

  • @JakeStephensMrJakeStephens

    Great video. Cheers!

  • @Koffelbourg1
    @Koffelbourg1 Před 11 lety

    Yay thx Brady, i absolutely love sixtysymbols :)

  • @DickJohnson3434
    @DickJohnson3434 Před 11 lety

    This interviewer of sixtysymbols asks the best fucking questions. He's the best interviewer of physicists I've ever seen. It seems like he always has the question that elicits the most relevant information.

  • @AdaptorLive
    @AdaptorLive Před 11 lety

    Sean Carroll is awesome! I've watched his 'Dark Matter, Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe' video course quite a few times. Thanks for the interesting video :)

  • @ThimbleStudios
    @ThimbleStudios Před 10 lety

    Awesome attitude!

  • @megamastah
    @megamastah Před 11 lety

    He talks and talks and talks. Amazing.

  • @mckeighanjoshua
    @mckeighanjoshua Před 11 lety

    This guy speaks very well. I'm going to pick up his book.

  • @OmegaRainbow
    @OmegaRainbow Před 11 lety

    great interview! :D

  • @SuperJonny7
    @SuperJonny7 Před 11 lety

    great explanation

  • @mrnosy1
    @mrnosy1 Před 11 lety

    Absolutely love this guy

  • @sananapee
    @sananapee Před 11 lety

    That last answer was amazing. It really got to me.

  • @laboheme8
    @laboheme8 Před 11 lety

    I love the title of the book.

  • @TheRijintube
    @TheRijintube Před 11 lety

    My god! this explaination is the only explaination, i understood about the higgs!
    THANKS!!

  • @aminochoas
    @aminochoas Před 11 lety

    Now that's a really interesting video and that last response was just brilliant. xD

  • @GabrielKnightz
    @GabrielKnightz Před 11 lety

    It never stops to amaze me that amazing leaps of mankind are being made and learned at one end of the world and at the other its burning in war and politics and hunger, and all of it on our little blue rock. yesh.

  • @ultravidz
    @ultravidz Před 9 lety +30

    sean is a coo cat

  • @Pianoguy32
    @Pianoguy32 Před 11 lety

    there are some videos around youtube of him giving lectures where you can hear his awesome voice for a long time lol

  • @ErgoCogita
    @ErgoCogita Před 11 lety

    Yep, that's more or less how I understand it as well. I suggested that as indicative of the futility in suggesting infinite smallness when there is conceivably a fundamental limit to how small we can or will be able to probe. For now, Planckscale represents that limit.

  • @StopFear
    @StopFear Před 11 lety

    Thanks for a reasonable response.

  • @Helix535
    @Helix535 Před 11 lety

    And it just stopped? Why?! This was interesting. Thank you for taking the time to make these.

  • @lukkabaluka
    @lukkabaluka Před 11 lety

    Any way to get the link to the video that pops up at the very end in which Sean Carroll says "In the Copenhagen Interpretation, you know the thing we teach our students..." ?

  • @jpmthemonk
    @jpmthemonk Před 11 lety

    Sean Carroll! You guys should read his book about time. And listen to his lecture on the same topic. Blew my mind.

  • @Olhado256
    @Olhado256 Před 11 lety

    I haven't watched the video yet, but 13 minutes of Higgs Boson-ness? I'm already happy!

  • @MattErskine
    @MattErskine Před 11 lety

    That Piano analogy was my lightbulb... it just went *ding*

  • @DickJohnson3434
    @DickJohnson3434 Před 11 lety

    Sean Carroll is my favorite science communicator.
    He has a lecture series on The Teaching Company about Dark matter and Dark Energy which is amazing.

  • @Justpooinabush
    @Justpooinabush Před 11 lety

    Sean Carroll is an all round BAMF. Skeptic, cosmologist and just an awesome dude. Watch his lectures or read his books people!