A dialogue with Brian Keating, at the San Diego Air and Space Museum
The Origins Podcast with Lawrence Krauss
Lawrence M. Krauss
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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
In mid October the Origins Project Foundation ran two public events in California. The second event was held at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego. I had asked my colleague Brian Keating, who teaches at UCSD and is a Trustee of that museum, whether he might be interested in doing a public dialogue together that we could later both broadcast on our respective podcasts. He and I have each appeared before on each other’s podcasts, and I knew that we could have the kind of comfortable, informative, and fun conversation that might appeal to a live audience, which would make for a different kind of podcast.
I am happy to present here the video record of that live-audience podcast, and the Q&A with the audience that was recorded right after it. Brian and I discussed many things, from forefront cosmology, to the nature of teaching and doing research, as viewed by an experimentalist and a theorist respectively, as well as broader questions associated with science in society today. The questions afterwards were equally interesting. I hope you enjoy both as you listen to or watch the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi and welcome to The Origins Podcast. I'm your host Lawrence Krause. |
| 0:11.7 | Earlier in the fall of last year, the Origins Project Foundation ran two public events in California, |
| 0:18.6 | in Orange County and subsequently in San Diego at the beautiful |
| 0:22.1 | Air and Space Museum there. We've already aired the event at Orange County, which was a lecture |
| 0:27.7 | by me. We have aired it as a special guest event on January 1st. And now I'm very happy to air |
| 0:35.4 | the second event, which was a dialogue with the physicists, |
| 0:39.0 | the astrophysicist and podcaster, Brian Keating. |
| 0:42.9 | Now, Brian's been a guest on my podcast and I've been a guest on his. |
| 0:47.0 | And we decided to do a public event in his home stomping ground and then co-posted |
| 0:52.7 | on both of our podcasts, which we're doing now. And we followed up |
| 0:57.6 | on our earlier discussions, and it was a fun and fascinating discussion, as it always is with Brian. |
| 1:01.9 | We discussed areas of astrophysics and cosmology, science more generally. The difference |
| 1:07.4 | between being a theorist and an experimentalist are different perspectives, |
| 1:11.2 | and also perspectives on science education more generally. |
| 1:14.8 | And then that was followed up with a really interesting question and answer period from the audience. |
| 1:19.1 | All of that's included in this podcast, which I hope you'll enjoy. |
| 1:23.0 | You can watch it commercial free, as always, on the substack site critical mass and proceeds from that go to |
| 1:32.1 | help support the non-profit origins project foundation that produces this podcast and of course |
| 1:37.3 | you can also see it on our YouTube channel the origins podcast YouTube channel I hope you'll |
| 1:42.4 | consider subscribing to that as well. |
| 1:44.9 | Now, however you watch it or listen to it, and of course you can listen to it on any podcast |
| 1:49.2 | site, I hopefully enjoy it. It was a lot of fun. And I hope you'll also consider supporting the |
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