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I very much enjoy talks like these about the secrets of nature and Carroll is an excellent communicator and teacher.
Unfortunately I cringe very much when I hear statements such as...
"Quantum Field theory and the Standard model is all we need to describe our every day life"
"The 100% story of your day to day life, everything you have ever felt, heard, seen or otherwise interacted with... is explained by the standard model"
This is not honest from a physicist and a man of science. It sounds either arrogant or pretty stupid... Seems like he's preaching to his choir of "skeptics". Another creepy sign of how science can become religion
I think he is honest but he is also a believer. His belief is so strong that he is ready to dismiss any evidence menacing his belief. Here more of his claims:
To claim "No life after death" is foolish because he cannot know it. On the contrary there is very much evidence supporting the possibility of life after death.
He has not learned anything from the history of science. For example from this:
Quotes About Johann Philipp Gustav Von Jolly
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“When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as a highly developed, almost fully matured science...Possibly in one or another nook there would perhaps be a dust particle or a small bubble to be examined and classified, but the system as a whole stood there fairly secured, and theoretical physics approached visibly that degree of perfection which, for example, geometry has had already for centuries.”
― Max Planck
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