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Podcast: Commonwealth Club of California Podcast
Episode: Sean Carroll: Exploring Quanta and Fields
Description: Ready for an adventure into the “bare stuff of reality”?Join us for a special online program when theoretical physicist Sean Carroll returns to the Club on the occasion of the publication of his new book Quanta and Fields, the second book of his internationally acclaimed series The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. Quantum field theory is how modern physics describes nature at its most profound level. Starting with the basics of quantum mechanics itself, Carroll explains measurement and entanglement before explaining how the world is really made of fields.Why is matter solid? Why is t...