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
Delilah Gates: Black Hole Basics! (#156)
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 ne…
00:24:53 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
Seth Shostak: Alien Hunter 👽
Since the first Martian “canals” were charted in 1877, space aliens have captivated sky-gazers, night travelers, and television watchers worldwide. Polls show that nearly half of all Americans believ…
00:37:14 |
Tue 08 Jun 2021
Mick West: Are UFO's here? (#154)
Mick West, a debunker, skeptic, writer, UFO investigator, and former video game programmer. This is the official channel for videos relating to the debunking and other experiments I do on my forum Me…
01:20:24 |
Fri 04 Jun 2021
Denise Shull: The Psychology of Billions (#153)
Denise Shull is the author of MARKET Mind Games, which has been repeatedly called "ahead of its time", "a game-changer" and "the best book on trading psychology" in unsolicited Amazon reviews.
Shull …
01:00:42 |
Mon 31 May 2021
Lee Smolin: String Theory is Still Wrong (#152)
Lee Smolin is a theoretical physicist who has been since 2001 a founding and senior faculty member at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His main contributions have been so far to the quant…
01:07:23 |
Thu 27 May 2021
Bill Pulte: Twitter Philanthropy! (#151)
Bill Pulte, a 30 something investor and entrepreneur coined the term “Twitter Philanthropy”. He has given away $800k+ via Cash App to those in need. Pulte’s grandfather (William Pulte) founded PulteG…
00:29:41 |
Tue 25 May 2021
Michael Shermer & Brian Keating: Part 1: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof (#150)
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00:55:09 |
Fri 21 May 2021
Michael Shermer & Brian Keating Part 2: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof (#149)
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00:55:46 |
Fri 21 May 2021
Steven Pinker: Things are Getting BETTER! (#148)
Was 2020 really the "worst year ever," as some would have us believe? Or are things getting better? Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker has shown that poverty, pollution and other challenges are on th…
01:00:06 |
Wed 19 May 2021
Andy Weir: Project Hail Mary (#147)
Andy Weir built a two-decade career as a software engineer until the success of his first published novel, The Martian, allowed him to live out his dream of writing full-time. He is a lifelong space …
01:07:44 |
Wed 12 May 2021
Eric Weinstein & Lee Smolin: Judging Theories of Everything, ID, & UFOs 👽 (#146)
Eric Weinstein & Lee Smolin: A conversation on Theories of Everything: String Theory, Geometric Unity, Loop Quantum Gravity, Lisi’s E8 etc.
00:00 Introduction
05:00 Michio Kaku & the God Equation: …
01:18:59 |
Mon 10 May 2021
Hawking Hawking! The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity with NYU Prof. Charles Selfe (#145)
Immediately recognizable in his wheelchair and surrounded by an entourage of nurses, Stephen Hawking was a symbol of the power of mind over matter. The public adored him, and the media compared hirn …
01:07:29 |
Thu 06 May 2021
MIT Professor Sara Seager: Love, Loss, & Life in the Cosmos (#144)
An MIT astrophysicist reinvents herself in the wake of tragedy and discovers the power of connection on this planet, even as she searches our galaxy for another Earth, in this “bewitching” memoir.
“S…
01:33:20 |
Tue 04 May 2021
Phillip Greenspun: The Most Interesting Man in Massachusetts (#143)
Greenspun grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, and received a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT in 1982. After working for Hewlett Packard Research Labs in Palo Alto and Symbolics, he became a founder of ICAD, …
01:14:52 |
Sat 01 May 2021
Part 2: Michio Kaku: Is String Theory = The GOD Equation? (#142)
Dr. Michio Kaku — theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. As co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einstei…
00:58:21 |
Wed 28 Apr 2021
Part 1: Michio Kaku: Is String Theory = The GOD Equation? (#142)
Dr. Michio Kaku — theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. As co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einstei…
01:01:51 |
Tue 27 Apr 2021
Peter Boghossian: How to have IMPOSSIBLE conversations! (#141)
In How to Have Impossible Conversations, Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay guide you through the straightforward, practical, conversational techniques necessary for every successful conversation -- …
01:16:29 |
Fri 23 Apr 2021
David Pogue: How to Prepare for Climate Change! (#140)
For Earth Day 2021, we present a discussion of the comprehensive guide to surviving climate change and global warming, an existential issue of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help auth…
00:53:04 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
I Write Therefore I Am: David Perell— Building A Second Brain + Write of Passage (#139)
David Perell is a modern philosopher-scholar. He is a Gen-Z version of Seth Godin who both writes and thinks in public to become a more refined intellectual. He is a brilliant raconteur who also part…
00:56:27 |
Wed 21 Apr 2021
Kamal Ravikant: Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It! (#138)
Kamal Ravikant has trekked to one of the highest base camps in the Himalayas, earned the US Army Infantry patch, walked 550 miles across Spain, lived in Paris, and bungee jumped out of a perfectly go…
01:23:08 |
Tue 20 Apr 2021
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