But classical physics takes you pretty far. This is the stuff that we know and is established, and in volume one, we're doing the classical physics stuff. There's nothing in there about the further reaches of quantum mechanics, or the multiverse, or extra dimensions, or dark matter particles, or anything like that. But the point is that I'm not trying to speculate. I don't have the expertise to cover them, so there's an implicit physics dropped there into the title. There are also big ideas that are not part of physics. ![]() Whereas, this time, I'm trying to be entirely pedagogical and we're sticking to what I mean by big ideas, ideas that are going to stick around essentially forever.Ġ:01:11.9 SC: Ideas that we think play some important correct role in describing the world, at least within some domain of applicability. For me because, usually in my trade book writing, I'm trying to make an argument about something that may or may not be true, trying to convince people that there is a good way of thinking about something, whether it's the arrow of time, or naturalism, or there are many world's interpretation of quantum mechanics. And it's a little bit of a departure, both for me and for the world of physics books out there. The book is, of course, based on the video series, the YouTube videos that I did at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. The new book, which arrives on September 20th, 2022, is The Biggest Ideas in the Universe volume one, Space, Time, and Motion. We did this before for Something Deeply Hidden, my book about quantum mechanics. ![]() So I think this is the second time that this has happened. And today, we're gonna get a special solo edition of Mindscape, which we occasionally do when we have a new book coming out at the same time as we have the podcast ongoing.
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