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
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 543
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State Is Eternal (#277)
Balaji S. Srinivasan is an American entrepreneur and investor. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford university and sports several high scale financial successes; he was the co-founder of Counsyl, the forme…
01:43:32 |
Sun 04 Dec 2022
Francis Halzen: Catching Neutrinos at the South Pole (#276)
Francis Halzen is the Hilldale and Gregory Breit Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University Wisconsin-Madison and principal investigator for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the world's la…
01:30:06 |
Wed 30 Nov 2022
The SCIENCE of ALIENS: Garry Nolan & Avi Loeb (#275)
Garry Nolan is a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research is in microbiology, immunology, bio-computation, and analysis of UFO artifacts, materials, and he is actively invest…
02:13:12 |
Fri 25 Nov 2022
Cosmic Insignificance Therapy (#274)
Just a few thoughts on 'cosmic insignificance therapy', popularized in the book "Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals" Oliver Burkeman, brought to my attention in this blog post by Tim Fe…
00:14:49 |
Thu 24 Nov 2022
Niall Ferguson: DOOM! (#273)
Niall Ferguson’s most recent book is Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe. In this book he posits that disasters are inherently hard to predict. Pandemics, like earthquakes, wildfires, and financial cri…
01:19:33 |
Sun 20 Nov 2022
Bernardo Kastrup: Consciousness & Superdeterminism Doubts (#272)
Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental.
He has a P…
01:23:24 |
Sun 13 Nov 2022
Can Science Save Us? Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees (#271)
In his most recent book If Science is to Save Us, Astronomer Royal Martin Rees argues that, in his expert and personal analysis of the scientific endeavor on which we all depend, that we need to thin…
01:49:35 |
Tue 08 Nov 2022
Mat Kaplan of Planetary Radio introduces a New Host and Interviews Brian Keating for an Update on The Simons Observatory (#270)
Join host Mat Kaplan as he proudly introduces the person who will take on the show he created 20 years ago. Then we’ll join astrophysicist Brian Keating at a joyful gathering of cosmologists who hope…
00:21:58 |
Wed 02 Nov 2022
P-hacking, Reproducibility & the Nobel Prize: Guido Imbens (#269)
Guido W. Imbens, along with David Card and Joshua Angrist, shared the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics for “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”. In 2017 he received the…
02:08:17 |
Sun 30 Oct 2022
Fraser Cain: Let’s Find Aliens in Our Solar System! (#268)
Join me and Fraser Cain (https://www.youtube.com/c/universetodayvids) for a wide-ranging romp through the Universe of ideas! We'll take questions and hopefully answer a few. Don't miss this chance to…
01:31:53 |
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Chaos, Covid, & Climate Change with Professor Tim Palmer (#267)
In his acclaimed latest book, The Primacy of Doubt: From Quantum Physics to Climate Change, How the Science of Uncertainty Can Help Us Understand Our Chaotic World, Professor Timothy Palmer argues th…
01:53:51 |
Tue 18 Oct 2022
70K BK AMA Q &A! (#266)
Welcome to my first AMA! Let me know If I should do a part 2!
Jay Yow asks Will 👽 aliens look like me??
I reader312: What is your most recommended book (based around physics and engineering) for a …
01:05:58 |
Wed 12 Oct 2022
A Brief History of Time Nobel Prizewinner Bill Phillips (#265)
NIST Fellow William D. Phillips received the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics “for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.” He shared the honor with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tan…
01:31:03 |
Sun 09 Oct 2022
Genesis & The Big Bang: Are They Compatible? (#264)
Be sure to watch the video version of this episode with slides here: https://youtu.be/F3P1ZtLZd9s
Genesis & The Big Bang “If You Can Count the Stars, A Jewish Astronomer’s Journey!
Think back to the…
01:19:58 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
Many Worlds & the Multiverse: Andy Friedman, David Brin (#263)
How many Multiverses are there? Featuring @davidBrin & the late, great Andy Friedman, colleague of the 2022 co-recipient of the @NobelPrize, Anton Zeilinger. Let me know your favorite takeaway from t…
00:53:56 |
Fri 07 Oct 2022
Neil Turok: Most Theorists are WRONG! (#262)
Renowned physicist Neil Turok, Holder of the Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, joins me to discuss the state of science and the universe. Neil Turok has been director…
02:22:02 |
Sun 02 Oct 2022
The State of The Universe With Eric Weinstein (#261)
A conversation from the vault, back in Spring 2022. As relevant as ever, hear Eric's thoughts on sundry topics such as:
The twin nuclei and the unleashing of great power
Harry Truman vs Kamala Harr…
01:32:21 |
Tue 27 Sep 2022
Did the Big Bang Happen? Brian Keating on The Morning Wire (#260)
Newly released photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have allowed scientists to view farther into space, and farther into the past, than ever before. The images emerging are raising questions ab…
00:15:01 |
Wed 21 Sep 2022
Sean Carroll’s Biggest Ideas (#259)
Sean Carroll joins me to discuss his magnificent new book, The Biggest Ideas In the Universe. Sean is an American theoretical physicist and philosopher who specializes in quantum mechanics, gravity, …
01:28:26 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
Proving the Big Bang Happened with Dr Brian Keating on The Fraser Cain Show (#258)
Fraser Cain, science youtuber and publisher www.universetoday.com interviews Dr. Brian Keating. They discussed the evidence for the Big Bang and the impact of James Webb Space Telescope on our curren…
01:13:15 |
Sun 18 Sep 2022
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