Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all.
If you’ve ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity.
Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast
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Jayant Narlikar - Giant of Cosmology! (#114)
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Harvard’s Avi Loeb- Extraterrestrial: The First...
In Extraterrestrial, Loeb takes readers inside the thrilling story of the first interstellar visitor to be spotted in our solar system.
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Leonard Mlodinow – My Friend, Stephen Hawking (...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics Leonard Mlodinow was Stephens closest colleague in his final years. Who better to put us in the room as Hawking indulges his passion for wine and curry; shares his feelings on love, death, and disabil
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Part 2: John Preskill – Quantum Computing, Arti...
Learn about the exciting promise of quantum computing and how it may solve problems in fundamental physics.Join my mailing list to get slides from this conversation: briankeating.com.We went deep...discussing Artificial Intelligence, the simulati
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John Preskill – Part 1 – Quantum Computing, Art...
Learn about the exciting promise of quantum computing and how it may solve problems in fundamental physics.Join my mailing list to get slides from this conversation: briankeating.com.We went deep...discussing Artificial Intelligence, the simulati
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Michael Saylor – The Physics of Bitcoin (#110)
Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur and business executive, who co-founded & leads MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. Saylor, an MIT trained engineer, authored the 2012 b
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Nobel Prize Winner Frank Wilczek: Fundamentals ...
Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics. Win a FREE copy of his newest book Fundamentals: enter this giveaway – https://kingsumo.com
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Fundamentally Closer to Truth? A conversation w...
Does your mind create matter?What happens when an irresistible force meets an unmovable object?What is the nature of free will?Find out, in this special episode of the Into the Impossible Podcast in collaboration with Deepak Chopras Chopra Well.
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Lord Martin Rees On The Future (#107)
Lord Martin Rees has played a huge role in my career and is an inspiration to me and millions of scientists around the world. There is literally nothing beyond his purview and our conversation bore this out -- we covered everything from A to Z: artificia
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(part 2): Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein in Conve...
Max Tegmark and Eric Weinstein chat on the last day of 2020! Let’s say ‘good riddance’ with good friends and great conversation! We’ll talk a bit about Artificial Intelligence, Theories of Everything & the seemingly impossible
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(part 1): Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein in Conve...
ax Tegmark and Eric Weinstein chat on the last day of 2020! Lets say good riddance with good friends and great conversation! Well talk a bit about Artificial Intelligence, Theories of Everything & the seemingly impossible challenge of building a pos
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Nobel Prize Winner Rainer Weiss: Feeling Spacet...
MIT Physics Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss won a 1/2 share of The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 For his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. He was born in Berlin, where his father was a doctor and psychoanalyst a
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Cumrun Vafa: Puzzles to Unlock The Universe! (#...
Join me in welcoming Prof. Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) in his first major podcast interview! We discussed a wide range of topics including what message hed put into a billion-year time capsule. Plus, we discuss his delightful new book. Beneath all of the compl
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Jill Tarter – Proxima Centauri, the Drake Equat...
Last week the Guardian and Scientific American announced that Breakthrough Listen astronomers using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia saw a weird radio signal coming from Proxima Centauri, the star system closest to Earth. The signal behaves strang
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Eric Weinstein – Ask Me Anything Live (#102)
American managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiels investment firm, a position he has held since 2015. Though not an academic physicist, he proposed a unified theory of physics in 2013. He and his brother Bret Weinstein coined the term Intellectua
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Nobel Prizewinner Frank Wilczek: Beautiful Ques...
Join me on a cosmic journey with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek. We will embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek’s groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a de
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Barry Barish – Black Holes, Nobel Prizes & The ...
Barry Barish is an emeritus professor at Caltech, where he has worked since 1963. He became director of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) project in 1997, which led to his Nobel Prize in 2017. He has many other awards and is
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Sheldon Glashow: The Power of Useless Ideas! (#...
Sheldon Glashow is a theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at Harvard, where he also earned his Ph.D. He was the first to propose a grand unified theory and also worked as a visiting scientist at CERN. Glashow shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physic
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Bill Perkins: Winners DIE WITH ZERO! (#098)
We all have limited time on Earth, so how should we spend it? Financial advisors urge us to be more like the ant than the grasshopper: work hard to maximize our earnings, save early and often, and, in retirement, reap the fruits of our labors and the rew
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Eric Weinstein: Imposter Syndrome, Donald Trump...
Eric Weinstein joins me live to take your questions about the past, present and future of physics. Well discuss my recent chats with Lenny Susskind, Shelly Glashow, and Barry Barish and Erics recent podcasts with Lex Fridman too. Eric and Stephen Wolfram
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Paul Sutter – How To Die In Space (#096)
Paul M. Sutter is a research professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York City. Paul earned his PhD in physics in 2011 as a Department
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Evan Carmichael: What Is Your One Word? (#095)
Evan Carmichael believes in entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a venture capitalist helping to raise $500,000 to $15 million. He now runs EvanCarmichael.com, a popular website for entrepreneurs. He breathes
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Lenny Susskind: Black Hole War My BATTLE w Step...
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is a 2008 popular science book by American theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind. The book covers the black hole information paradox, and the related scienti
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Janna Levin: How to Survive A Black Hole Encoun...
Janna is back to discuss her wonderful new book, BLACK HOLE SURVIVAL GUIDE https://amzn.to/2IlbpKSJanna Levin is the Claire Tow Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Barnard College. She earned a PhD in theoretical physics at the Massachusetts Insti
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Clifford Will and Nicolas Yunes: Is Einstein St...
Albert Einstein is often viewed as the icon of #genius, and his theories are admired for their beauty and correctness. Yet the final judge of any theory is the rigorous test of experiment, not the fame of its inventor or the allure of its mathematics. Fo
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