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
Craig Callender: A Graphic History of Time (#196)
Craig Callendar is a Professor of Philosophy, and Founding Faculty of, and Co-Director of, the Institute for Practical Ethics at UC San Diego in the Department of Philosophy. He is also on the Freedo…
01:15:34 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Lee Cronin: The Chemistry of Life (#195)
Lee Cronin was born in the UK and was fascinated with science and technology from an early age getting his first computer and chemistry set when he was 8 years old. This is when he first started thin…
01:09:30 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
Barry Barish Interviews Brian Keating: Part 2 (#194)
In February 2021 Dr. Barry Barish, co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the LIGO experiment, interviewed me at his home in Los Angeles. The topic was his thoughts and reactions to my b…
00:44:21 |
Wed 03 Nov 2021
Barry Barish Interviews Brian Keating: Part 1 (#193)
In February 2021 Dr. Barry Barish, co-recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the LIGO experiment, interviewed me at his home in Los Angeles. The topic was his thoughts and reactions to my b…
00:54:22 |
Wed 03 Nov 2021
Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson: Frequently Asked Questions About The Universe (#192)
You’ve got questions: about space, time, gravity, and the odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here. From the dynamic duo that brought you WE HABE NO …
00:53:07 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
Sarah Rugheimer: Searching for Extraterrestrial Life (#191)
Dr. Sarah Rugheimer is a Glasstone Research Fellow and a Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College Oxford. Her research interests are modeling the atmosphere and climate of extrasolar planets with a particu…
00:51:56 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
Ryan Holiday | Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave! @Daily Stoic (#190)
Ryan Holiday’s best-selling trilogy - The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, and Stillness is the Key - captivated professional athletes, CEOs, politicians, and entrepreneurs and helped bring Sto…
01:06:24 |
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Jeremy England: Life is on FIRE🔥 🧬🔥 (#189)
A preeminent physicist unveils a field-defining theory of the origins and purpose of life. Why are we alive? Most things in the universe aren't. And everything that is alive traces back to things tha…
01:50:42 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Astronaut Nicole Stott: BACK TO EARTH (#188)
Inspired by insights gained in spaceflight, a NASA astronaut offers key lessons to empower Earthbound readers to fight climate change
When Nicole Stott first saw Earth from space, she realized how in…
00:59:48 |
Wed 13 Oct 2021
Chris Hadfield: The Apollo MURDERS! (#187)
In 1973: a final, top-secret mission was planned to go to the Moon. Three astronauts in a tiny spaceship, a quarter-million miles from home. A quarter-million miles from help.
NASA is about to launch…
00:57:22 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Heather Heying & Bret Weinstein: A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century. Frogs, Family, Freedom (#186)
Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein are evolutionary biologists. They both earned PhDs in Biology from the University of Michigan, where their research on evolution and adaptation earned awards. They'v…
01:49:13 |
Tue 05 Oct 2021
Brian Keating: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner! Why I wrote it (#185)
I’m so excited to share that my new book, Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, is now live in the Universe! I couldn’t be more excited. I wrote it for YOU!
***This week only**** I have priced the ebook a…
00:32:09 |
Tue 28 Sep 2021
Anthony Aguirre: Cosmological Koans (#184)
Physicist Anthony Aguirre studies the formation, nature, and evolution of the universe, focusing primarily on the model of eternal inflation—the idea that inflation goes on forever in some regions of…
01:27:57 |
Tue 21 Sep 2021
Ben Shapiro: The Science™ of Authoritarianism (#183)
I spoke with Ben Shapiro about his thoroughly discursive new book: The Authoritarian Moment. Ben is prolific to say the least: his second book in just about a year. Some of you aren't Big Ben fans, b…
01:01:55 |
Tue 14 Sep 2021
Part 2 of 2: Eric Weinstein n- WTF Happened in 1971: An INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Birthday Extravaganza 🎉 ! (#182)
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01:07:21 |
Mon 13 Sep 2021
Part 1 of 2: Eric Weinstein n- WTF Happened in 1971: An INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Birthday Extravaganza 🎉! (#181)
What happened in 1971 (besides my birth on September 9th, 1971)? Answer: a lot!
Topics: GU update, Science vs. Politics, Elon Musk vs. Physics, and WTF is a Kayfabe?
I'd be honored if you'd get me tw…
01:06:49 |
Sun 12 Sep 2021
Julian Barbour: The Janus Point and the Arrow of Time (#180)
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 Cologn…
01:48:23 |
Thu 09 Sep 2021
Stephon Alexander: Fear of a Black Universe (#179)
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, I…
01:28:27 |
Tue 31 Aug 2021
Danny Miranda and Dr. Brian Keating – How Religion Helps An Astrophysicist Make Sense Of The Universe (#178)
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, Sa…
01:31:27 |
Thu 26 Aug 2021
Paul Halpern: Flashes of Creation (#177)
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, …
00:57:35 |
Tue 24 Aug 2021
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