Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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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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Nov 28, 2020 · 1 hr 6 min
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
Nov 28, 2020 · 1 hr 40 min
Eric Weinstein: Imposter Syndrome, Donald Trump, & the Future of Theoretical Physics (#097)
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
Nov 20, 2020 · 49 min
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
Nov 20, 2020 · 30 min
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
Nov 19, 2020 · 1 hr 27 min
Lenny Susskind: Black Hole War My BATTLE w Stephen Hawking Made the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (#094)
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
Nov 14, 2020 · 59 min
Janna Levin: How to Survive A Black Hole Encounter! (#093)
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
Nov 13, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
Clifford Will and Nicolas Yunes: Is Einstein Still Right? (#092)
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
Nov 13, 2020 · 1 hr 41 min
Astronomy’s Great Debate – The Nature of the Universe and the Future of Astronomy! (#091)
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🎉!
Nov 9, 2020 · 2 hr 22 min
Sir Roger Penrose: Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Black Holes Nobel Prize w/ Eric Weinstein Janna Levin (#090)
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
Nov 8, 2020 · 59 min
Marwa El-Diwiny: Using Soft Robotics to Solve Hard Problems (#089)
Marwa A.ElDiwiny, an early stage researcher PhD, I am working on modelling and simulating self-healing soft materials for industrail applications at VUB.
Nov 6, 2020 · 36 min
Seth Godin: How Creatives use The Practice to make great art, overcome fear & thrive on constraints! (#088)
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
Nov 4, 2020 · 43 min
Unni Turrettini: Betraying the Nobel: Secrets, Corruption, and the World’s Most Prestigious Prize (#087)
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
Oct 30, 2020 · 1 hr 10 min
Gentry Patrick: Race & Diversity in Science (#086)
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
Oct 27, 2020 · 7 min
How Big is the Universe? It’s Debatable… An Essay By Brian Keating (#085)
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
Oct 27, 2020 · 1 hr 10 min
Sean Carroll: Is the Universe Twisted? Limits on Lorentz Violation & other Screwy Ideas! (#084)
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
Oct 23, 2020 · 59 min
Emily Levesque: Will Today’s Astronomers Be The Last Stargazers? (#083)
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
Oct 21, 2020 · 1 hr 38 min
Gad Saad: The Parasitic Mind – the cure for mental pathogens! (#082)
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
Oct 9, 2020 · 56 min
Carl Hagen: Spontaneous Symmetries, the Higgs Mechanism and the Nobel Prize (#080)
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
Oct 9, 2020 · 1 hr 2 min
Paul Halpern Synchronicity: Wolfgang Pauli & Carl Jung (#079)
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
Sep 27, 2020 · 1 hr 2 min
Rabbi David Wolpe: Atheism, The Simulation Hypothesis, & Judaism’s view of the Multiverse! (#078)
A discussion with Rabbi Wolpe, Max Webb Senior Rabbi, Sinai Temple, Los Angeles.

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Bill Perkins: Winners DIE WITH ZERO! (#098)

Eric Weinstein: Imposter Syndrome, Donald Trump, & the Future of Theoretical Physics (#097)

Paul Sutter – How To Die In Space (#096)

Evan Carmichael: What Is Your One Word? (#095)

Lenny Susskind: Black Hole War My BATTLE w Stephen Hawking Made the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (#094)

Janna Levin: How to Survive A Black Hole Encounter! (#093)

Clifford Will and Nicolas Yunes: Is Einstein Still Right? (#092)

Astronomy’s Great Debate – The Nature of the Universe and the Future of Astronomy! (#091)

Sir Roger Penrose: Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Black Holes Nobel Prize w/ Eric Weinstein Janna Levin (#090)

Marwa El-Diwiny: Using Soft Robotics to Solve Hard Problems (#089)

Seth Godin: How Creatives use The Practice to make great art, overcome fear & thrive on constraints! (#088)

Unni Turrettini: Betraying the Nobel: Secrets, Corruption, and the World’s Most Prestigious Prize (#087)

Gentry Patrick: Race & Diversity in Science (#086)

How Big is the Universe? It’s Debatable… An Essay By Brian Keating (#085)

Sean Carroll: Is the Universe Twisted? Limits on Lorentz Violation & other Screwy Ideas! (#084)

Emily Levesque: Will Today’s Astronomers Be The Last Stargazers? (#083)

Gad Saad: The Parasitic Mind – the cure for mental pathogens! (#082)

Carl Hagen: Spontaneous Symmetries, the Higgs Mechanism and the Nobel Prize (#080)

Paul Halpern Synchronicity: Wolfgang Pauli & Carl Jung (#079)

Rabbi David Wolpe: Atheism, The Simulation Hypothesis, & Judaism’s view of the Multiverse! (#078)