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.
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 66 minutes
- Episodes
- 542
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Brian Keating interviews Professor Elena Aprile about the search for dark matter and her life in science (#036)
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Elena Aprile is UCSD’s Margaret Burbidge Visiting Professor at UC San Diego and Professor of Physics at Columbia University. She is the founde…
00:46:03 |
Thu 12 Mar 2020
SETI and Beyond: A discussion with Brian Keating, Paul Davies, Jim Benford and Mat Kaplan (#035)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence by Paul Davies
The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life …
00:42:11 |
Mon 10 Feb 2020
Brian Keating interviews Sir Roger Penrose: The Emperor’s New Mind — Consciousness & Computers (#034)
Books mentioned in this episode:
The Emperor’s New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
Sir Roger Penrose…
00:59:11 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
UC San Diego Alumni discuss their careers & Quantum Design Inc. with Brian Keating (#033)
Dr. Stefano Spagna, PhD. and Ivy Lum Fipps, MS are both alumni of UC San Diego Physics. Dr. Spagna is Chief Technology Officer and Mrs. Fipps is Final Test Engineer specializing in dilution refrigera…
00:29:31 |
Tue 14 Jan 2020
Brian Keating Interviews Richard Panek about The Trouble With Gravity (#032)
Books mentioned:
The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet
Empiricism, heavens and earth, gravity in history, god, religion, and politics, a thrilling tour guide from ancient co…
00:52:01 |
Tue 07 Jan 2020
UC San Diego Alumnus, Nanome.ai Co-Founder & CEO Steve McCloskey interviewed by Stuart Volkow (#031)
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Steve McCloskey is an Alumni from the first class of Nanoengineering at the University of California, San Diego. Steve’s work is focused on emerging technologies a…
00:32:17 |
Sat 21 Dec 2019
Brian Keating Interviews Jim Gates about Proving Einstein Right, supersymmetry and other mysteries (#030)
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Jim Gates is the Ford Foundation Professor of Physics, and the Director of The Brown University Theoretical Physics Center. He is a 2013 recipient of the National Me…
00:36:33 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Brian Keating interviews Sean Carroll about his book Something Deeply Hidden & Many Worlds (#029)
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Sean Carroll on Joe Rogan
Sean M. Carroll is a Research Professor of Physics at CalTech. He is a theorist who t…
01:05:58 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Dan Hooper discusses his book At The Edge of Time (#028)
At The Edge of Time
Dan Hooper is a senior scientist and the head of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). He is also Associate Professor of Astr…
00:39:23 |
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Innovator Series – Additive Rocket Corporation (#027)
Links:
The Additive Rocket CorporationReiley Weekes, CSO
Kyle Adriany, CTO
The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination on Facebook and Twitter
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Lear…
00:29:10 |
Wed 11 Sep 2019
The Origins of Life and the Work of Primo Levi (#026)
Links:
Dr. Luca Legnani, Ph.D., The Blackmond Lab, Scripps Research Institute
Primo Levi
The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination on Facebook and Twitter
Email us at [email protected]…
00:30:28 |
Tue 16 Jul 2019
A Discussion of Quantum Theory and the book “What Is Real?” by Adam Becker (#025)
This podcast is about the book, "What Is Real? The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics". The conversation was part of the "Into the Impossible" podcast at the UC San Diego Arthur C. C…
01:17:45 |
Tue 25 Jun 2019
Julian Guthrie Discusses Alpha Girls (#024)
Co-Director of the Clarke Center Professor Brian Keating interviews bestselling author Julian Gurthrie about her latest book Alpha Girls. The stories of 4 women who achieved prominence in the male-do…
00:33:17 |
Tue 04 Jun 2019
Matthew Stanley & Einstein’s War (#023)
How history can shape science, and how science can change the tide of history? NYU Professor Matthew Stanley is our guest, here to discuss about his latest book: Einstein's War: How Relativity Triump…
00:48:07 |
Tue 21 May 2019
Journalist & Author Annalee Newitz (#022)
Meet Annalee Newitz, nonfiction and fiction author, science-journalist, and co-host of the podcast series Our Opinions are Correct. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award and nominee for the Nebula and …
00:38:02 |
Mon 22 Apr 2019
Beyond 10,000 Hours (#021)
On this episode, we explore physics, education, and what it takes to train imaginative scientists with Carl Wieman, Nobel Prize winning physicist with joint appointments as Professor of Physics and P…
00:28:13 |
Wed 06 Mar 2019
The Second Kind of Impossible (#020)
THE SECOND KIND OF IMPOSSIBLE: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter is the exciting, first-hand story of how Paul Steinhardt, the award-winning physicist and Albert Einstein Professor in …
00:51:34 |
Tue 08 Jan 2019
Nature Has More Imagination (#019)
In a ranging conversation, associate director Brian Keating interviews the preeminent scientist and thinker Freeman Dyson, discussing his career in science and letters, the role of creativity and sub…
01:01:30 |
Mon 01 Oct 2018
Internet of All Kinds of Things (#018)
How is the internet changing our humanity, and what can we do about it? We explore these questions and more with Antonio Garcia Martinez (author of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure i…
01:12:09 |
Tue 01 May 2018
Graphic Science (#017)
On May 8th, the Clarke Center will host an evening of Graphic Science: Comics Engage the Cosmos. In advance of that, associate director Brian Keating chatted with Jorge Cham, creator of PHD Comics, a…
00:38:47 |
Wed 18 Apr 2018
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