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.
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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
Max Tegmark vs. Eric Weinstein: AI, Aliens, Theories, & New Year’s Resolutions! (Repost from 2021)
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Max Tegmark vs. Eric Weinstein: AI, Aliens, Theories, & New Year’s Resolutions! (Repost from 2021)
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Enjoy this classic episode from the vault: Max Tegmark & Eric Weinstein, New Years Eve 2020!
Brian Keating brings together two thought leaders at the edge of physics and philosophy: Max Tegmark, physicist, cosmologist, and pioneer at MIT, and Eric Weinstein, mathematician, economist, and creator of Geometric Unity.
Timestamps:
00:00 "Ambitions in AI, Physics, News"
16:58 "Emergent Reality from Proto-Spacetime"
22:50 "Rethinking Unification in Physics"
36:09 "Value of Disagreeable Individualism"
45:32 "Optimism for Academia Careers"
01:04:08 "Dangers of Oversimplifying Physics"
01:07:34 "On Success, Science, and Wonder"
01:18:47 "Funding and Advancing Physics Research"
01:30:28 "Perspective on Science and Society"
01:43:13 "Three Types of Scientific Experiments"
01:52:05 "Collaboration and Discovery in Science"
02:02:20 "The Messiness of Scientific Truth"
02:13:08 "Simulation, AI, and Ethics"
02:20:55 "Limits of Technology in Cosmos"
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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
