Avi Loeb Fights Back: Response to Brian Cox & the 3I/ATLAS Critics - #529

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 15 November 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Become a channel member to ask questions! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb returns to break down the newest data on 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar object captivating the world — and triggering fierce debate among scientists. In this extended conversation, Loeb responds directly to recent public criticism from Brian Cox, Jason Wright, and others, clarifies what the data actually show, and explains why humility and open inquiry remain essential to the scientific method. The latest images of the interstellar object show a single intact body, a sunward jet, and energy requirements that challenge familiar comet models. These anomalies have ignited one of the most heated scientific debates of the decade. We explore the latest observations since 3I/ATLAS’ October 29 perihelion: • Why its jets, brightness, and spectral changes are so unusualt • What would distinguish natural sublimation from technological propulsiont • How its orbit, size, and mass budget challenge standard modelst • Why the public response matters for the future of sciencet • How criticism of scientific inquiry mirrors the historical treatment of Galileot Follow Avi's latest findings and discoveries here https://avi-loeb.medium.com/3i-atlas-is-still-a-single-body-with-a-sunward-anti-tail-after-perihelion-667fe41c0071 In this livestream, Avi will address: • Why the post-perihelion images complicate the natural-comet interpretationt • Whether a technological origin is still on the tablet • Why critics insist the anomalies are trivial — and why Avi argues they’re nott • How scientific consensus forms, breaks, and evolves under stresst • What the new mass-flux and energy calculations imply for 3I/ATLASt We’ll explore the science, the skepticism, and the stakes — and we’ll take live audience questions from channel members. Join our esteemed set of members here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Whether you’re convinced, skeptical, or undecided, this is the conversation the public deserves: open, rigorous, and unfiltered. 📚 Get a copy of my books: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, with life changing interviews with 9 Nobel Prizewinners: https://a.co/d/03ezQFu My tell-all cosmic memoir Losing the Nobel Prize: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA The first-ever audiobook from Galileo: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un Follow me to ask questions of my guests: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast #universe #podcast #briankeating #intotheimpossible #science #astronomy #cosmology #cosmicmicrowavebackground #intotheimpossible #briankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:26.3	All right, all right, all right.
0:28.5	Let's see what we're doing here today.
0:31.1	We've got a very good friend of the show, Professor Avi Lobby Loeb of Harvard University. Avi, how are you doing today in the
0:42.6	beautiful Cambridge suburbs? Oh, it's quite amazing. I wake up at 3 a.m. every day just to go over
0:51.4	300 emails that I'm that piled up in my inbox overnight.
0:56.8	And there are lots of interesting surprises I should tell you.
1:00.2	Let me just mention a few anecdotes if you don't mind.
1:05.7	So our dishwasher broke down.
1:09.0	And I call to order a new one and I speak with someone random and that person says,
1:16.6	is this Avila?
1:19.6	And I say, yes it is.
1:21.6	And he says, oh, I'm following you on all the podcasts.
1:24.6	Can you please give me a brief overview of three eye atlas? And I was
1:29.3	just trying to get a dishwasher. And also I got a haircut this morning. I go to the woman who
1:40.5	cuts my hair and she says, you know, the boss of my daughter came to her and says
1:46.0	you'd need to listen to this podcast with Avilov and and she said well that's that's
1:52.0	the person that my mother cuts the hair of and and he's are you sure that your mother
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