331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse

Hello everyone, welcome to the Mindscape Podcast. I'm your host, Sean Carroll. Those of you who've been around here for a while know that here at Johns Hopkins I'm teaching this semester two different courses. Both are a lot of fun in very different ways. One is quantum mechanics, the standard quantum mechanics course for all physics undergraduates, and the other is one called Philosophy of Cosmology.

That's an upper level lecture course in the philosophy department, obviously. And it's for a general audience. So there's some philosophy majors there, but there's a whole bunch of different people. So a wide variety of levels of expertise are there. The quantum mechanics course is fairly standard.

Like I said, I'm actually doing threads on Blue Sky where I try I try, I think I've been successful so far. Every day after the lecture, I give a couple of little sentences about what was in that lecture. And if you follow the thread on the quantum mechanics course, you'll get a feeling for how very, very different quantum mechanics is for the working physicist than it is for the popular discussions of quantum mechanics. I love the popular discussions of quantum mechanics, I'm part of them myself, but they rarely involve how to deal with operators that have degenerate eigenvalues and therefore

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