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

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Average duration: 66 minutes
Episodes: 542
Years Active: 2018 - 2025

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The Scientists Ep. 5: Steven Weinberg’s Legacy, Religion, and Cosmology

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Brian Keating reflects on the life and legacy of Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg, the legendary physicist and wr…

01:23:45 | Sun 15 Jun 2025

Eric Weinstein's Theory of Everything Confirmed?

How are recent DESI experimental results challenging the traditional view of dark energy as a fixed cosmological constant? Are foundational assumptions in Einstein’s general relativity limiting progr…

02:29:10 | Thu 12 Jun 2025

The Scientists Ep. 4: Carl Sagan's Five Principles

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Brian Keating deep dives into the remarkable life and legacy of Carl Sagan—one of history’s greatest science co…

00:27:33 | Sun 08 Jun 2025

Answering Your Cosmic Questions: The Multiverse, the Big Bang and Life on Exoplanets

Please join my mailing list here 👉 ⁠https://briankeating.com/list⁠ to win a meteorite 💥 In this electrifying episode, recorded live at UC San Diego, Brian pulls back the cosmic curtain to explore…

00:48:01 | Thu 05 Jun 2025

Should Creationism Be Taught Alongside Evolution? [Ep. 496]

In a world increasingly shaped by science and technology, how do we determine what constitutes truth? What role does society play in shaping scientific knowledge consensus? And what are the implicati…

01:07:19 | Wed 04 Jun 2025

Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion: Atheism & AI

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 In this thought-provoking installment, host Brian Keating sits down with legendary evolutionary biologist and a…

01:43:31 | Sun 01 Jun 2025

The Scientists BONUS EPISODE: The Giving Valve (inspired by Richard Dawkins' Selfish Gene)

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 In this special bonus audio essay, Brian shares personal reflections inspired by his recent experience hosting e…

00:29:19 | Thu 29 May 2025

Astrobiologist Says We’ve Been Searching for Aliens the Wrong Way with Nathalie Cabrol [Ep. 495]

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 What if alien life is everywhere, but we’ve been looking for it in all the wrong places? We assume life needs…

01:14:29 | Wed 28 May 2025

Did Eric Weinstein Just Delete Einstein’s Cosmological Constant - Confirmed by DESI? [Ep. 493]

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Can geometric unity actually solve the deepest mysteries of our universe, or will it join the many others that…

00:56:10 | Fri 23 May 2025

The Scientists Ep. 3: Isaac Asimov -- Atomic Habits

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Brian Keating takes us on a journey through the fascinating life and legacy of Isaac Asimov—but not as the sci-…

00:26:56 | Thu 22 May 2025

How Black Holes Break Reality | Marcus Chown [Ep. 493]

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 Could a black hole erase your past? Wipe out every memory, every detail, that makes you who you are? That’s j…

01:05:23 | Mon 19 May 2025

The Scientists Ep. 2: Pure Genius - The Feynman Method: How a Physicist Rewired the Way We Learn

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 This conversation explores the life and legacy of Richard Feynman, exploring his pivotal role in the Manhattan P…

00:25:20 | Thu 15 May 2025

Can the West Survive? Douglas Murray [Ep. 491]

Please join my mailing list here 👉 https://briankeating.com/list to win a meteorite 💥 What happens when a civilization begins to doubt its own foundations, dismissing facts, evidence, and even reaso…

01:02:45 | Tue 13 May 2025

The Scientists Ep. 1: Flatland -- Einstein's Muse

Welcome to a fascinating journey into the limits of imagination, geometry, and scientific discovery. In this premiere episode of "The Scientists," a new series on the Into The Impossible Podcast Netw…

00:19:55 | Thu 08 May 2025

The Scientists Ep. 0: Obsessive Geniuses

Welcome to the debut episode of "The Scientists," a captivating new series from the Into the Impossible Podcast Network, hosted by Brian Keating, Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC…

00:18:49 | Thu 08 May 2025

He Used Quantum Entanglement to Explain Where the Aliens Are [Ep. 490]

Consensus is the AI powered results engine I use every day in my research. Visit https://bit.ly/ConsensusApp and sign up for one year for *FREE* with code KEATING25 just for listeners of The INTO THE…

01:00:55 | Sun 04 May 2025

Galileo: The Elon Musk of the Renaissance? | Dr. Brian Keating on Young Heretics with Spencer Klavan

Dr. Brian Keating joins Spencer Klavan to discuss one of the most brilliant, complicated, and misunderstood men in all of Western history. No, not Elon Musk. Galileo Galilei! They cover Galileo's d…

00:48:25 | Thu 01 May 2025

Mike Brown Lecture on Finding Planet Nine and his Journey to Redefine the Solar System

Win Extraterrestrial Metal: join my mailing list 💥 https://briankeating.com/yt 💥 Mike is an astronomer and professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Hi…

00:18:20 | Mon 28 Apr 2025

"Asteroid Could Hit in 2032?!" & Did Webb Telescope Just Spot Aliens?

Brian Keating dives into some of the universe's biggest mysteries, from the search for extraterrestrial life and the nature of the Big Bang to cutting-edge discoveries from the James Webb Space Teles…

00:47:02 | Thu 24 Apr 2025

The Fascinating Hunt for a Mysterious Ninth Planet [Ep. 488]

As a listener of Dr. Brian Keating, you get a special 20% off discount. 👉 Head over to The Economist's website at www.economist.com/Keating to get started. What really happened during the controver…

00:58:47 | Sun 20 Apr 2025

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