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
Barry Barish – Black Holes, Nobel Prizes & The Imposter Syndrome (#100)
Barry Barish is an emeritus professor at Caltech, where he has worked since 1963. He became director of the LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) project in 1997, which led to hi…
01:26:36 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
Sheldon Glashow: The Power of Useless Ideas! (#099)
Sheldon Glashow is a theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at Harvard, where he also earned his Ph.D. He was the first to propose a grand unified theory and also worked as a visiting scientist…
01:32:39 |
Thu 03 Dec 2020
Bill Perkins: Winners DIE WITH ZERO! (#098)
We all have limited time on Earth, so how should we spend it? Financial advisors urge us to be more like the ant than the grasshopper: work hard to maximize our earnings, save early and often, and, i…
01:06:17 |
Sat 28 Nov 2020
Eric Weinstein: Imposter Syndrome, Donald Trump, & the Future of Theoretical Physics (#097)
Eric Weinstein joins me live to take your questions about the past, present and future of physics. We’ll discuss my recent chats with Lenny Susskind, Shelly Glashow, and Barry Barish and Eric’s recen…
01:40:02 |
Sat 28 Nov 2020
Paul Sutter – How To Die In Space (#096)
Paul M. Sutter is a research professor in astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University and a guest researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York City.…
00:49:34 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
Evan Carmichael: What Is Your One Word? (#095)
Evan Carmichael believes in entrepreneurs. At 19, he built then sold a biotech software company. At 22, he was a venture capitalist helping to raise $500,000 to $15 million. He now runs EvanCarmichae…
00:30:57 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
Lenny Susskind: Black Hole War My BATTLE w Stephen Hawking Made the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (#094)
The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics is a 2008 popular science book by American theoretical physicist Leonard Susskind. The book covers the …
01:27:36 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
Janna Levin: How to Survive A Black Hole Encounter! (#093)
Janna is back to discuss her wonderful new book, BLACK HOLE SURVIVAL GUIDE https://amzn.to/2IlbpKS
Keep your distance and enjoy the ride! Please subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_c…
00:59:45 |
Sat 14 Nov 2020
Clifford Will and Nicolas Yunes: Is Einstein Still Right? (#092)
Albert Einstein is often viewed as the icon of #genius, and his theories are admired for their beauty and correctness. Yet the final judge of any theory is the rigorous test of experiment, not the fa…
01:01:01 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Astronomy’s Great Debate – The Nature of the Universe and the Future of Astronomy! (#091)
Host of Into The Impossible Professor Brian Keating, David Spergel, Janna Levin, Sara Seager, Wendy Freedman, & Nobel Prize winner Adam Riess debate the hottest topics in modern astronomy while celeb…
01:41:40 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Sir Roger Penrose: Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Black Holes Nobel Prize w/ Eric Weinstein Janna Levin (#090)
Join me for a very special discussion with Sir Roger Penrose, co-winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics. We will discuss Conformal Cyclic Cosmology, Black Holes, and of course, Nobel Prizes!
GET O…
02:22:36 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
Marwa El-Diwiny: Using Soft Robotics to Solve Hard Problems (#089)
Marwa A.ElDiwiny, an early stage researcher PhD, working on modelling and simulating self-healing soft materials for industrail applications at VUB.
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00:59:26 |
Sun 08 Nov 2020
Seth Godin: How Creatives use The Practice to make great art, overcome fear & thrive on constraints! (#088)
Seth Godin is a prolific writer, thinker, and self-declared “non-guru” guru to millions around the world. He invented email marketing. He started the AltMBA program. He has written 20 books, includin…
00:36:48 |
Fri 06 Nov 2020
Unni Turrettini: Betraying the Nobel: Secrets, Corruption, and the World’s Most Prestigious Prize (#087)
Betraying the Nobel: Secrets, Corruption, and the World’s Most Prestigious Prize! This was a fascinating interview for me to conduct, with a ‘sister-in-arms” who is rallying the world to restore Alfr…
00:43:32 |
Wed 04 Nov 2020
Gentry Patrick: Race & Diversity in Science (#086)
Race and diversity issues in STEM can no longer be ignored.
Professor Gentry Patrick is a neurobiologist and the Director of Mentorship and Diversity at UC San Diego. As a kid from Compton, he didn’t…
01:10:45 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
How Big is the Universe? It’s Debatable… An Essay By Brian Keating (#085)
The GREATEST Debate:
How two astronomers changed the way humanity debates
By April 1920, the Spanish flu had claimed 50,000,000 lives. The first World War ended only 17 months earlier. A polarizing …
00:07:48 |
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Sean Carroll: Is the Universe Twisted? Limits on Lorentz Violation & other Screwy Ideas! (#084)
In 1990, Sean Carroll’s, George Field and Roman Jackiw wrote an epochal paper that had a tremendous impact on physics, and in particular, on me and my career as a young graduate student in the 1990’s…
01:10:40 |
Tue 27 Oct 2020
Emily Levesque: Will Today’s Astronomers Be The Last Stargazers? (#083)
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer BY WALT WHITMAN
When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to …
00:59:45 |
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Gad Saad: The Parasitic Mind – the cure for mental pathogens! (#082)
Why are politics and society becoming more polarized? How does misinformation, disinformation, bigotry, and hatred spread? How are decisions really made? Dr. Gad Saad has answers and we get to many o…
01:38:47 |
Wed 21 Oct 2020
Carl Hagen: Spontaneous Symmetries, the Higgs Mechanism and the Nobel Prize (#080)
I delighted in this remarkable opportunity to chat with Carl Hagen , a man who, as much as anyone alive was responsible for discovering the so-called Higgs Mechanism”. I found Carl fascinating and ve…
00:56:14 |
Fri 09 Oct 2020
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