See the video here: https://youtu.be/nzy4jVOPC6E Peter and Brian discuss asteroids, multiverses, and how AI will impact the universe. Brian Keating is a renowned astrophysicist, cosmologist, inventor, and author. He is a professor at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination. Keating's groundbreaking research on cosmic microwave background radiation has earned him prestigious awards, and his book "Losing the Nobel Prize" has rec...
Jun 11, 2023•2 hr 50 min•Season 4Ep. 307
In this interview on the ALPHA MIND podcast, hosts STEVEN GOLDSTEIN & MARK RANDALL interview Professor Keating about some of the connections which bind trading, investing, and science. Brian talks about how scientists, despite being held on some sort of an intellectual pedestal, are human, and are just as prone to the foibles and behavioral errors which are common to people in all fields, including trading. The theme, which resonates throughout this interview, alludes to the meta game of science...
Jun 07, 2023•53 min•Ep. 306
On this episode of The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast, Carl Zimmer discusses the importance of ethics in scientific communication and how scientific discoveries can be inaccurately reported by journalists, leading to misunderstandings by the public. The difficulty of defining what it means to be alive is explored and the stakes of this debate, particularly in regards to the autonomy of one's own body, are discussed. The episode also touches on the controversy surrounding gain of function research o...
Jun 04, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Season 4Ep. 305
Dr. Brian Keating and celebrated bestselling author and podcast host James Altucher, discuss and debate ideas for new higher learning frameworks, focused on remote and metaverse learning and the concept of virtual mentors - 3D-rendered avatars of interactive historical figures built using large language models and natural language processing. Dr. Brian Keating - the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics...
May 31, 2023•2 hr 32 min•Season 4Ep. 304
Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/AJJGv-5Rk4I #CondensedMatter #superconductors #quantummechanics The tagline for our podcast by Arthur C. Clarke is “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”. Theoretical physicist Felix Flicker’s imaginative new book The Magick of Physics provides ample service to that notion. In Flicker’s book the magic is in “condensed matter physics”, the quotidian solids, liquids, and gasses that surround us—and the more exot...
May 28, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 4Ep. 303
#F35 #StealthFighter #HasardLee "Being able to regulate your emotions, regulate your stress, your self-talk is really important. The Air Force has moved to this human performance aspect -- all pilots, as soon as they show up, they start this sports psychology training that we've adapted to flying fighters and that carries with them throughout their career." — Hasard Lee In his first book, The Art of Clear Thinking, veteran USAF F-35 Stealth Fighter Pilot Hasard Lee distills what he’s learned dur...
May 23, 2023•1 hr 20 min•Season 4Ep. 299
Video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/cAMSoAUo288 UC San Diego Physics Professor Jorge Hirsch... ...joins Professor Brian Keating to discuss recent claimed a breakthrough in high-temperature superconductors, including claims they work at near ambient pressure and temperature. Here come cheap magnetic levitating trains, low-loss power distribution, free MRI scanners in every clinic…. Or not? Watch my solo episode about the controversial claims here: https://youtu.be/hbER0AnwXD4 Since th...
May 17, 2023•1 hr 16 min•Season 4Ep. 301
Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist, bestselling author, and acclaimed lecturer. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of The Origins Podcast. In this episode Professor Krauss discusses his 10th and most recent book: The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos. The book challenges readers to explore the limits of what we know, and possibly what is even knowable! Can science ever explain the mysteries of time, space, matter...
May 10, 2023•55 min•Season 4Ep. 300
Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist, bestselling author, and acclaimed lecturer. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of The Origins Podcast. In this episode Professor Krauss discusses his 10th and most recent book: The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos. The book challenges readers to explore the limits of what we know, and possibly what is even knowable! Can science ever explain the mysteries of time, space, matter...
May 09, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 300
Brian Keating (@DrBrianKeating) is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California San Diego, host of the Into the Impossible podcast, and the author of Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor. What Jordan Harbinger discusses with Brian Keating: What compelled dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel to annually reward outstanding contributions for humanity, and how would he feel about the way Nobel prizes are awarded today? Wh...
May 03, 2023•54 min•Season 4Ep. 299
In this interview with Chris Williamson on the Modern Wisdom Podcast, Brian Keating talks about what it takes to build a telescope that can detect the farthest regions of space in the Antarctic, what the Nobel Prize originally set out to achieve and how the politics of the physics community can often get in the way of progress. He discusses his book Losing The Nobel Prize and his motivations for writing it. Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2...
Apr 26, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Season 4Ep. 298
Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/RVLMnBsJgKI?=sub_confirmation=1 Marc Kamionkowski is a theoretical physicist, who’s research is in cosmology, astrophysics, and elementary-particle theory. His main focus has been on particle dark matter, inflation the cosmic microwave background, and cosmic acceleration. His 1999 paper, A Polarization Pursuer’s Guide inspired Professor Keating to create the BICEP experiment. He is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Physics at Johns Hopk...
Apr 23, 2023•1 hr 29 min•Season 4Ep. 297
Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/5Ag6jpvIa2w?=sub_confirmation=1 On 6 October 2020 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2020 #NobelPrize in Physics with one half to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. I was delighted to have had this chance to discuss life, physics and everything with my friend Sir Roger Penrose, who endorsed my book Losing the Nobel Prize back in 2018. Well, now Sir Roger has WON the Nobel Prize. We...
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 4Ep. 296
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/Qq2OgL8Hb6o?=sub_confirmation=1 Andrei Linde is one of the main authors of inflationary cosmology. At present, it is the leading candidate for the theory of the very early stages of expansion of the universe and formation of its large scale structure. In this podcast Linde will describe some of the popular versions of this theory,...
Apr 09, 2023•2 hr 9 min•Season 4Ep. 295
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/hbER0AnwXD4?subconfirmation=1 Here come maglev trains, fusion reactors, cheap MRI scanners in every clinic…. Or not? Since the discovery of superconductors in 1911 by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, earning the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics, they have been the subject of much fascination and inquiry. Some of the greatest minds in physics ha...
Apr 02, 2023•53 min•Season 4Ep. 294
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/65tgV4OrsAk?subconfirmation=1 Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts Please leave a rating and review: On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB On Spotify it’s here: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok On Audible it’s here https://ti...
Apr 02, 2023•19 min•Season 4Ep. 293
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtube.com/live/86E03OzQDCo?sub_confirmation=1 Recently, Bergner and Seligman explained the behavior of the first interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, as a rare form of a quite common object, a comet. They claim it "began as an icy planetesimal that was irradiated at low temperatures by cosmic rays during its interstellar journey, and experien...
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 292
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/R5DXUZet7HE?sub_confirmation=1 Is the brain a computer? Where does the soul lie? Can quantum mechanics explain consciousness? Alan Lightman takes on these ancient questions and more in this fabulous new book chock-full of cutting-edge research and the latest discoveries in brain science. Watch Alan's first episode on the Into the ...
Mar 27, 2023•57 min•Season 4Ep. 291
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Watch the video of this episode here: https://www.youtube.com/live/hiw3aJwc7TU?feature=share?sub_confirmation=1 The Stern-Gerlach experiment is one of the most important results in physics history. Shockingly, the paper had never been translated into english until today's guest, Prof. Martin Bauer set himself to the task. We'll discuss the experiment, as well as Martin's research. Bri...
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 23 min•Season 4Ep. 288
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Be sure to watch the video of this episode on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/hDKGF5W4Qis?sub_confirmation=1 Where does consciousness come from? Can we cure autism? Can we grow a human BRAIN in Space? Dr. Alysson Muotri joins me to discuss all these fascinating questions and more. Brain organoids are lab-grown minibrains that mimic structural and functional features of full-size brains...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 4Ep. 290
Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/Qp3YOsaJ4r0 Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Elena Aprile is UCSD’s Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor at UC San Diego and Professor of Physics at Columbia University. She is the founder and spokesperson of the XENON Dark Matter Experiment. Aprile is well known for her work with noble liquid detectors and for her contributions to particle astrophysics in the se...
Mar 12, 2023•50 min•Season 4Ep. 289
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/zDTdm5ZS7gI?sub_confirmation=1 PART 2 of 2 Fresh off his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE), join me and Eric Weinstein in this frank discussion diving deep into philosophical and existential questions of nuclear war, UFOs, faith, belief, global conflict, antisemitism, the state of elite academia, geopolitical threats in...
Mar 06, 2023•52 min•Season 4Ep. 288
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Watch the video of this episode here: https://youtu.be/zDTdm5ZS7gI?sub_confirmation=1 PART 1 of 2 Fresh off his appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience (JRE), join me and Eric Weinstein in this frank discussion diving deep into philosophical and existential questions of nuclear war, UFOs, faith, belief, global conflict, antisemitism, the state of elite academia, geopolitical threats in...
Mar 05, 2023•58 min•Season 4Ep. 288
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible For that last four years of his life, Freeman Dyson would spend winters in La Jolla, and work alongside physicists at UC San Diego (as well as the super-secret scientific advisory group known as the JASONS). This video was from my last conversation with Freeman at UC San Diego in 2018. Freeman Dyson was Professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study. Mathematician, physicist, ...
Mar 02, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 4Ep. 287
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible A vivid account of experiments that changed the course of history, leading to some of the most significant breakthroughs in science. From the serendipitous discovery of X-rays in a German laboratory to the scientists trying to prove Einstein wrong (and inadvertently proving him right) to the race to split open the atom, these brilliant experiments fundamentally changed our lives. Disc...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 4Ep. 286
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Join Eric ( @EricWeinsteinPhD ) and Prof Dan Green (twitter.com/nu_phases) A discussion on the state of physics -- both theoretical and experimental -- and ways to make progress in the future. Watch Physics is NOT In Crisis! Physicist Dan Green Into The Impossible Podcast https://youtu.be/ZhthGWoIMlU Join this channel to get access to perks: www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b...
Feb 18, 2023•2 hr 32 min•Season 4Ep. 285
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible David Friedberg believes that science is the best hope to save humanity. He is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and angel investor. After several years in investment banking and private equity, Friedberg joined Google in March 2004 as one of the first 1,000 employees and a founding member of Google’s Corporate Development group. As Corporate Development and Business Product Mana...
Feb 11, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 4Ep. 284
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible David Friedberg believes that science is the best hope to save humanity. He is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and angel investor. After several years in investment banking and private equity, Friedberg joined Google in March 2004 as one of the first 1,000 employees and a founding member of Google’s Corporate Development group. As Corporate Development and Business Product Mana...
Feb 10, 2023•2 hr 34 min•Season 4Ep. 284
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Is fundamental physics in trouble as past guests like Lee Smolin, Lawrence Krauss, Eric Weinstein, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Neil Turok have suggested? Dan Green is a theoretical physicist focusing on the intersection of cosmology and high energy particle physics. He's a professor at UC San Diego, where Into The Impossible's new studio is located. Dan discusses his career progression, ...
Feb 05, 2023•46 min•Season 4Ep. 283
Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible Sarah Scoles, Journalist and Author of “They Are Already Here UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers” joins us to discuss alternatives to the SETI visitation phenomenon. www.sarahscoles.com twitter.com/ScolesSarah Connect with Professor Keating: 🏄♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrian...
Feb 04, 2023•47 min•Season 4Ep. 282
