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
Andy Viterbi: Wireless Pioneer, Co-Founder of Qualcomm - A Historic Perspective (#118)
Communications pioneer Andrew J.Viterbi — who in 1962 earned one of the first doctorates in electrical engineering granted at the University of Southern California — has forever changed how people ev…
01:01:04 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
How to BEAT failure, CRUSH obstacles, and THRIVE with NASA Spacewalker Scott Parazynski! (#117)
Scott Parazynski is an American physician and a former NASA astronaut. A veteran of five Space Shuttle flights and seven spacewalks, Parazynski's phenomenal book, THE SKY BELOW, tells the gripping fi…
00:53:23 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Laurence Tribe: The Physics of IMPEACHMENT & The Curvature of Constitutional Space (#116)
Laurence Tribe Is an American legal scholar who is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at the Harvard Law School of Harvard University. We are discussing the impeachment of Donald Trump and unique …
00:37:02 |
Tue 16 Feb 2021
Max Tegmark: Life 3.0 (#115)
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Max Tegmark is a physicist, cosmologist, and artificial intelligence - machine learning researcher. He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the scientific d…
00:35:32 |
Tue 09 Feb 2021
Jayant Narlikar - Giant of Cosmology! (#114)
Besides scientific papers and books and popular science literature, Narlikar has written science fiction, novels, and short stories in English, Hindi, and Marathi:
Facts and Speculations in Cosmolog…
00:46:27 |
Sat 06 Feb 2021
Harvard’s Avi Loeb- Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth (#113)
In late 2017, scientists at a Hawaiian observatory glimpsed an object soaring through our inner solar system, moving so quickly that it could only have come from another star. Avi Loeb, Harvard’s top…
01:34:53 |
Tue 02 Feb 2021
Leonard Mlodinow – My Friend, Stephen Hawking (#112)
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
Leonard Mlodinow was Stephen’s closest colleague in his final years. Who better to put us in the room as Hawking indulges his passion for wine and …
01:13:38 |
Tue 26 Jan 2021
Part 2: John Preskill – Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Encountering Richard Feynman (#111)
Learn about the exciting promise of quantum computing and how it may solve problems in fundamental physics.
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We went deep…d…
01:17:30 |
Tue 19 Jan 2021
John Preskill – Part 1 – Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and Encountering Richard Feynman (#111)
Part 1 of 2
Learn about the exciting promise of quantum computing and how it may solve problems in fundamental physics.
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We…
00:59:52 |
Mon 18 Jan 2021
Michael Saylor – The Physics of Bitcoin (#110)
Michael J. Saylor is an American entrepreneur and business executive, who co-founded & leads MicroStrategy, a company that provides business intelligence, mobile software, and cloud-based services. S…
01:45:31 |
Wed 13 Jan 2021
Nobel Prize Winner Frank Wilczek: Fundamentals — What Are The 10 Keys To Reality? (#109)
Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist, author, and intellectual adventurer. He has received many prizes for his work, including a Nobel Prize in Physics. Win a FREE copy of his newest book Fundame…
01:40:28 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
Fundamentally Closer to Truth? A conversation with Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow, & Frank Wilczek (#108)
Does your mind create matter?
What happens when an irresistible force meets an unmovable object?
What is the nature of free will?
Find out, in this special episode of the Into the Impossible Podca…
01:27:02 |
Wed 06 Jan 2021
Lord Martin Rees On The Future (#107)
Lord Martin Rees has played a huge role in my career and is an inspiration to me and millions of scientists around the world. There is literally nothing beyond his purview and our conversation bore t…
01:38:07 |
Wed 06 Jan 2021
(part 2): Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein in Conversation (#106)
Max Tegmark and Eric Weinstein chat on the last day of 2020! Let’s say ‘good riddance’ with good friends and great conversation! We’ll talk a bit about Artificial Intelligence, Theories of Everything…
01:12:37 |
Fri 01 Jan 2021
(part 1): Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein in Conversation (#106)
Max Tegmark and Eric Weinstein chat on the last day of 2020! Let’s say ‘good riddance’ with good friends and great conversation! We’ll talk a bit about Artificial Intelligence, Theories of Everything…
01:19:52 |
Fri 01 Jan 2021
Nobel Prize Winner Rainer Weiss: Feeling Spacetime Shudder: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves and Nobel Prizes! (#105)
MIT Physics Professor Emeritus Rainer Weiss won a 1/2 share of The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 For his contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. He was born in Be…
01:54:34 |
Tue 29 Dec 2020
Cumrun Vafa: Puzzles to Unlock The Universe! (#104)
Join me in welcoming Prof. Cumrun Vafa (Harvard) in his first major podcast interview! We discussed a wide range of topics including what message he’d put into a billion-year time capsule. Plus, we d…
01:13:17 |
Fri 25 Dec 2020
Jill Tarter – Proxima Centauri, the Drake Equation, and SETI in 2021! (#103)
Last week the Guardian and Scientific American announced that Breakthrough Listen astronomers using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia saw a weird radio signal coming from Proxima Centauri, the …
01:06:43 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
Eric Weinstein – Ask Me Anything Live (#102)
Eric Weinstein is the managing director of Thiel Capital, Peter Thiel‘s investment firm, a position he has held since 2015. Though not an academic physicist, he proposed a unified theory of physics i…
01:21:44 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
Nobel Prizewinner Frank Wilczek: Beautiful Questions, God, Nobels, Imposters & the Power of Beauty (#101)
Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?
Join me on a cosmic journey with Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek. We will embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present…
01:39:09 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
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