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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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Jul 11, 2026

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Julian Barbour: The Janus Point and the Arrow of Time (#180) 09.09.2021

Julian Barbour is the author of the highly regarded The Discovery of Dynamics and the bestseller The End of Time and now, The Janus Point. He received his PhD in physics from the University of Cologne in 1968. He is a past visiting professor of physics at the University of Oxford and lives on the edge of the scenic Cotswolds, UK. A major new work of physics, The Janus Point will transform our unde...

Stephon Alexander: Fear of a Black Universe (#179) 31.08.2021

Stephon Alexander is a Professor of Physics at Brown University and the President of the National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP). Alexander has had previous appointments at Stanford University, Imperial College, Penn State, Dartmouth College, and Haverford College. He is a specialist in the field of string cosmology, where the physics of superstrings are applied to address longstanding questio...

Danny Miranda and Dr. Brian Keating – How Religion Helps An Astrophysicist Make Sense Of The Universe (#178) 26.08.2021

Dr. Brian Keating is an American physicist who is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. In this conversation, we spoke about Losing The Nobel Prize, his latest book, Galileo, how one of his mentors let him down, and Judaism. In this conversation, we spoke about Losing The Nobel P...

Paul Halpern: Flashes of Creation (#177) 24.08.2021

Paul Halpern is Professor of Physics at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. A prolific author, he has written sixteen science books and numerous articles. His interests range from space, time and higher dimensions to cultural aspects of science. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, and an Athenaeum Literary Award, he has appeared on C-SPAN, the History Chann...

James Altucher and Brian Keating: Stop using these 3 Lazy Words! (#176) 19.08.2021

Do you use these 3 lazy words daily? Do you use these words when you tried to solve problems? Create businesses? Win a game? Well, it's time to change that. James Altucher and Brian Keating talk about these 3 lazy words, and what's the meaning behind these words, and how can we change our mindset, and prevent ourselves from using these words! Support our Sponsors! LinkedIn Jobs! Use this link to p...

Ashley Yeager: The Brilliant Legacy of Astronomer Vera Rubin (#175) 17.08.2021

Ashley Yeager is an associate editor at The Scientist. Previously, she worked as a freelance writer, editor and multimedia producer, and also at the Simons Foundation as a science writer, at Science News as a web producer and at Duke University as a writer and multimedia producer. She has an undergraduate degree in journalism from the University of Tennessee and a master's in science writing from...

Tom Delonge & Jim Semivan: An Honest Talk About Government Secrets! (#174) 13.08.2021

Tom DeLonge started To The Stars Academy, a multi-pronged approach to address issues related to UFO/UAPs. TTSA has several divisions including: Science & Technology Division wherein TTSA collects documents and physical materials from public and private sources related to the UAP phenomena to study it and then transitions the transformative technologies behind it to wider applications of public ben...

Eric Topol: AI Doctors, Medicine's Future, and The Delta Variant (#173) 10.08.2021

#AI #FutureofMedicine #EricTopol Dr. Eric Topol M.D. is a Physician-Scientist, Author, Editor and is The Gary & Mary West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine, and the Executive VP, Scripps Research. We discussed the meaning of life, ways for Artificial Intelligence to improve patient outcomes…and concomitantly, benefit physicians too. We explored the ethical imperatives incumbent on doctors— is i...

The Joy of Ex-perimental Astrophysics with UCSB Professor Ben Mazin (#172) 09.08.2021

Benjamin Mazin is the Worster Chair in Experimental Physics at UC Santa Barbara. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1997.  He then attended the California Institute of Technology, graduating with a doctorate in Astrophysics in August, 2004.  After a short post-doc at Caltech, he went to work as a scientist at JPL in March, 2005.  He joined the faculty at the University of California Santa...

Part 2 of 2 Lawrence Krauss: The Physics of Everything (#171) 03.08.2021

Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author, as well as being an acclaimed lecturer. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of The Origins Podcast, His wide research interests have focused on the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, including the origin and evolution of the Universe and the fundamen...

Part of 1 of 2 – Lawrence Krauss: The Physics of Everything (#170) 27.07.2021

Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author, as well as being an acclaimed lecturer. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of The Origins Podcast, His wide research interests have focused on the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, including the origin and evolution of the Universe and the fundamen...

Avi Loeb: Breaking News! (#169) 26.07.2021

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Jo Dunkley: This Is Our Universe (#168) 20.07.2021

Jo Dunkley is a Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. ​Her research is in cosmology, studying the origins and evolution of the Universe. Her major projects are the Atacama Cosmology Telescope and the Simons Observatory. She's also a member of the Rubin Observatory's Dark Energy Science Collaboration. ​Professor Dunkley has been awarded the Maxwell Medal, the Rosa...

Part 2 of a special 2 part episode - Brian Keating in Conversation with James Altucher: How to become an expert. Do aliens exist? The state of AI, theories of everything (#167) 19.07.2021

Brian Keating and James Altucher experiment, going live on Twitter! The experience was great and possibly better than the clubhouse!  The conversation started on how to become an expert, to the question of the existence of aliens, to the state of AI, to finally, theories of everything!  James Altucher is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He's achieved the rank of chess master, and is the author...

Part 1 of a special 2 part episode - Brian Keating in Conversation with James Altucher: How to become an expert. Do aliens exist? The state of AI, theories of everything (#166) 17.07.2021

Brian Keating and James Altucher experiment, going live on Twitter! The experience was great and possibly better than the clubhouse!  The conversation started on how to become an expert, to the question of the existence of aliens, to the state of AI, to finally, theories of everything!  James Altucher is an entrepreneur and angel investor. He's achieved the rank of chess master, and is the author...

Steven Kotler: Master Your Flow with The Art of the Impossible (#165) 13.07.2021

Best-selling author and peak performance expert Steven Kotler decodes the secrets of those elite performers - athletes, artists, scientists, CEOs, and more - who have changed our definition of the possible, teaching us how we too can stretch far beyond our capabilities, making impossible dreams much more attainable for all of us. What does it take to accomplish the impossible? What does it take to...

Alan Lightman: Astronomy's Tolstoy -- Improbable Possibilities, Einstein's Dream, & More (#164) 06.07.2021

Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, and people are fated to repeat their triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a...

Caleb Scharf: The Ascent of Information (#163) 29.06.2021

Caleb Scharf was born and educated in England. He received his B.Sc. in physics from Durham University, and his Ph. D. in astronomy from the University of Cambridge. Following postdoctoral work in X-ray astronomy and observational cosmology at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, he has been a research scientist at Columbia University in New Y...

Top Alien Hunter: “No, aliens aren’t here!” (#162) 26.06.2021

Seth Shostak directs the search for extraterrestrials at the SETI Institute in California—trying to find evidence of intelligent life in space. He is also committed to getting the public, especially young people, excited about astrobiology and science in general. Seth is the host of “Big Picture Science,” the SETI Institute’s weekly radio show. The one-hour program uses interviews with leading res...

Brian Keating on Planetary Radio with Host Matt Kaplan: Special Crossover Episode (#161) 25.06.2021

Mat Kaplan is the host of Planetary Radio Host and Producer, The Planetary Society. Mat Kaplan loves hosting and producing Planetary Radio. He was just 17 when he got his first job in broadcasting, yet it wasn't until the 2002 premiere of The Society's popular weekly broadcast and podcast series that he combined his twin loves of space and radio. A Planetary Society staff member for more than 15 y...

Michael Knowles: Speechless (#160) 22.06.2021

Michael Knowles is the celebrated host of “The Michael Knowles Show” at the Daily Wire, “The Book Club” at PragerU, and “Verdict with Ted Cruz.” In 2017, Michael published the #1 national bestselling treatise Reasons to Vote for Democrats, which President Donald Trump hailed as “a great book for your reading enjoyment.” In late 2020, after an appearance guest-hosting “The Rush Limbaugh Program,” i...

Peter Timbie: My Academic Father! (#159) 20.06.2021

More than any other person, my Ph. D advisor Peter Timbie, taught me how to be a scientist. We discuss Peter’s advisor David Wilkinson (namesake of the WMAP satellite) and Bob Dicke. Learn the history of the Cosmic Microwave Background told by one of best teachers in the Universe. Thanks to our sponsors! https://magbreakthrough.com/impossible http://betterhelp.com/impossible Learn more about your...

Steven Strogatz: The Infinite Power of Calculus (#158) 18.06.2021

Steven Strogatz is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics at Cornell University. Early in his career, he worked on a variety of problems in mathematical biology, including the geometry of supercoiled DNA, the dynamics of the human sleep-wake cycle, the topology of three-dimensional chemical waves, and the collective behavior of biological oscillators, such as swarms of synchrono...

Eric Weinstein & Michael Shermer: An honest dialogue about UFOs (#157) 17.06.2021

What is the nature of the abundant accounts of unexplained aerial phenomena? Are they harbingers of advanced extraterrestrial engineering, math, and physics, beyond our standard model? Or is there a more prosaic, though no less significant explanation, ranging from military operations, unreliable witnesses, or confirmation bias? Is our government sharing all it knows? Or is there really anything '...

Delilah Gates: Black Hole Basics! (#156) 10.06.2021

Harvard's Dr. Delilah Gates joins to discuss the fascinating & foreboding subject of black holes! Black holes are mysterious objects that have perplexed humanity for centuries, yet Delilah reveals new perspectives on their most inscrutable properties via in-depth studies of their spins, entropy, event horizons & more. Dr. Delilah Gates is Harvard's second African American woman to receive a Ph. D....

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