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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

🎉 250K Subscribers Q&A Special! 🚀✨

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Join my mailing list https://briankeating.com/list to win a real 4 billion year old meteorite! All .edu emails in the USA 🇺🇸 will WIN! You know what's better than a 250k sub celebration? Nothing! I am immensely grateful for each and every one of you. Thank you so much for joining me on this journey. There is nothing I love more than engaging with all of you and sharing my passion for the impossible every day. To celebrate and commemorate this crazy milestone, I've asked for questions on all my channels, and today, I'm going to answer them all! So, without further ado, let’s get right Into the Impossible! Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:37 Does time have any relationship with temperature? 00:07:18 On losing the Nobel Prize 00:14:07 How much do I get paid? 00:16:43 Why do we prioritize studying the minutiae? 00:22:35 How do we know that the CMB occurred 380,000 years after the Big Bang? 00:27:52 The greatest challenge of our educational system 00:36:04 Why I’m not convinced by determinism 00:41:52 The reality of podcasting and money 00:50:01 Is it time to stop taking Sam Harris seriously? 00:56:24 Problems in our educational system and the prestige of physics 01:08:30 How do I explain my work at cocktail parties? 01:11:56 Could gravity be massive? 01:15:00 Could the universe be an infinite multidimensional fractal? 01:24:43 Gravitational lensing 01:28:00 How many galaxies does the universe contain? 01:30:57 Joe Rogan’s mini-me? 01:36:37 Does dark matter even exist? 01:39:50 My favorite meteorites, Starlink and the Simons Observatory 01:43:29 Extra interdimensional beings? 01:48:30 Are there various ways to solve the Hubble tension? 01:54:50 Outro Additional resources: 📝 Get one month of Snipd Premium for free with this link: https://get.snipd.com/Cx7S/brianSnipd Snipd lets you take Smart Notes 🧠 with AI 💡 — it’s my favorite podcast player 😀 ! ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/cosmic-musings/ 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know what's better than a 250 K sub celebration?

0:04.6

Nothing, at least in the world of podcasting.

0:07.6

Come along today, we're going to talk about the questions that are most mesmerizing to you, my most

0:13.8

munificent, magnificent, and brilliant audience members in the known

0:19.8

multiverse. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

0:31.0

Open the pod bay doors out. distinguishable from magic.

0:35.0

Open the pod bay doors now. I'm Brian Keating, the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San

0:39.7

Diego and I'm so delighted to get to do this episode a 250 K subscriber celebration.

0:46.0

I solicited questions on YouTube, Dr. Brian Keating, Instagram, Twitter, X, and Threads. Blue Sky, no I didn't or Mastodon. Massodon has been put out of existence again

1:00.0

Double extinction for that type of fat elephant. But it's really quite a joy. And actually we have about

1:05.6

320,000 subscribers if you include all the folks that listen only on audio, which is fine to do.

1:13.5

And I sometimes do that as well with other podcasts

1:16.4

that have video channels, but this is specifically

1:18.2

for my followers on the video platforms

1:21.3

and we've been having such a huge run-up even in just a week or two that I

1:26.6

published requests for questions. We've gotten another 3 or 4,000 subscribers. So this is really a delight and I can't believe I'm so lucky I get to do this and share this ride through the universe with you.

1:38.0

So without further ado, let's get to some of the questions from you.

1:42.0

First comes from Busy Billy B 33. Congrats Dr Keating on yet another

1:48.6

milestone with many more to come. My question for you is something I'm struggling to get around my head.

1:53.0

I'm not sure if I'm even asking it correctly.

1:55.0

Does time have any relationship with temperature of a system as observed by an outsider?

1:59.0

I think of the temperature as a kind of kinetic energy measure of the particles of the system.

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