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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

303 | AMA | February 2025

2486.188 - 2506.515 Sean Carroll

Isaac Newton did pretty darn well in understanding the orbits of planets and things by treating everything like a point particle that wasn't rotating at all. So that must be a pretty good approximation. Craig Stevens says, I learned in college that photons may be absorbed by atoms if they have the right energy and move a valence electron from one energy level to a higher one.

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