Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
A podcast about how we understand the world, scientifically and as humans. Each conversation brings together visionaries from the worlds of arts, sciences, humanities, and technology discussing the nature of reality and how we collaborate to create the future. Hosted by Dr Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego. For show notes go to: https://briankeating.com/podcast
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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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Astronomy’s Great Debate – The Nature of the Un...
Host of Into The Impossible Professor Brian Keating, David Spergel, Janna Levin, Sara Seager, Wendy Freedman, & Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess debate the hottest topics in modern astronomy while celebrating the Hubble Space Telescopes 30th birthday🎉!
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Sir Roger Penrose: Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, ...
Join me for a very special discussion with Sir Roger Penrose, co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics. We will discuss Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Black Holes, and of course, Nobel Prizes!GET OUR SLIDES: https://kingsumo.com/g/vn03wc/sir-roger-p
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Marwa El-Diwiny: Using Soft Robotics to Solve H...
Marwa A.ElDiwiny, an early stage researcher PhD, I am working on modelling and simulating self-healing soft materials for industrail applications at VUB.
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Seth Godin: How Creatives use The Practice to m...
Seth Godin is a prolific writer, thinker, and self-declared “non-guru” guru to millions around the world. He invented email marketing. He started the AltMBA program. He has written 20 books, including the Practice. He thinks deeply about the way ideas sp
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Unni Turrettini: Betraying the Nobel: Secrets, ...
Unni and I are in complete resonance when it comes to the tarnish on the Nobel. The peace prize is as distorted from Alfreds original intentions as are the science prizes. Its mesmerizing to watch Unni mix an attorneys keen analytical mentality with a jo
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Gentry Patrick: Race & Diversity in Science (#...
Professor Gentry Patrick is a neurobiologist and the Director of Mentorship and Diversity at UC San Diego. As a kid from Compton, he didn’t have an easy road, but he is committed to making sure future generations have it easier than he did.We discuss
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How Big is the Universe? It’s Debatable… An Ess...
On April 26, 1920, in Washington DC, two contestants took the stage in a debate that would alter the cosmos forever. Was this contest the 1920 presidential debate? No, this battle was literally for universal domination, not a mere skirmish between presid
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Sean Carroll: Is the Universe Twisted? Limits o...
In 1990, Sean Carrolls, George Field and Roman Jackiw wrote an epochal paper that had a tremendous impact on physics, and in particular, on me and my career as a young graduate student in the 1990s. Sean will discuss the background physics behind thi
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Emily Levesque: Will Today’s Astronomers Be The...
In The Last Stargazers, Emily Levesque reveals the hidden world of the professional astronomer. She celebrates an era of ingenuity and curiosity, and asks us to think twice before we cast aside our sense of wonder at the universe.Emily Levesque is an
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Gad Saad: The Parasitic Mind – the cure for men...
Why are politics and society becoming more polarized? How does misinformation, disinformation, bigotry, and hatred spread? How are decisions really made? Dr. Gad Saad has answers and we get to many of them in this fast-moving discussion. We also discuss
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Carl Hagen: Spontaneous Symmetries, the Higgs M...
Carl Hagen , a man who, as much as anyone alive was responsible for discovering the so-called Higgs Mechanism. I found Carl fascinating and very similar to his lifelong friend and colleague, my former quantum mechanics Professor at Brown University, Ge
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Paul Halpern Synchronicity: Wolfgang Pauli & Ca...
Paul Halpern’s latest book is “Synchronicity: The Epic Quest to Understand the Quantum Nature of Cause and Effect.” Paul joins me to discuss the book as well as big topics like quantum entanglement and the meaning of life. Hear about how he balances his
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Rabbi David Wolpe: Atheism, The Simulation Hypo...
A discussion with Rabbi Wolpe, Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles.
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Juan Maldacena: On Theories of Everything, Blac...
Juan Maldacena joined me to discuss his fascinating new paper on human traversable wormholes and other topics in fundamental physics. Join in the chat to participate! We discussed the Multiverse, Black Holes, Wormholes, SETI, Life on Einstein Lane, Inter
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Did Scientists Discover Life on Venus? MIT Prof...
A conversation with MIT Professor Sara Seager and The Verge Journalist Loren Grush, with Prof. Brian Keating. Loren Grush writes: Deep within the acidic clouds of Venus, astronomers have detected a tantalizing gas never found on the planet before — a gas
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Alex Heyne: Youtube’s #1 Monk! (#074)
Alexander Heyne is the creator of Modern Health Monk, a popular YouTube channel devoted to helping people learn healthy habits and manifest a happy life. Alex is also the author of “Master the Day: Eat, Move and Live Better With The Power of Daily Habits
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Astrophysicist Moiya McTier, Folklorist of the ...
Moiya McTier is in the final year of her PhD in astrophysics at Columbia, but she is already a science communication star. With a background in folklore, she is an accomplished storyteller working to bring more science into science fiction. Moiya joins m
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