Brian Keating Discusses Black Holes, Time Travel, and the Origin of the Universe w/ Jordan Peterson

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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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! Enjoy this thorough conversation between me and the one and only Jordan Peterson, in which we discuss many long-standing cosmological theories, from the Big Bang to the expansion of the universe, and why we might be completely wrong… about everything! Dr. Jordan B. Peterson is a renowned Canadian psychologist, best-selling author, public speaker, media commentator, and podcast host. He has lectured at prestigious universities, published numerous scientific papers, and developed online programs to help individuals explore their personalities and improve their lives. Tune in! Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:15 My primary focus of concern 00:05:06 How far back can we look? 00:07:36 Visible light vs. microwave radiation 00:15:31 Olbers paradox 00:21:32 The accelerating universe 00:32:59 What we know and don't know about the early universe 00:48:24 A consequence of dust 00:55:57 The initial state of the universe prior to the elemental state 01:01:52 Eintein’s happiest thought 01:09:21 Everything hinges on curvature 01:12:11 Inflation and the multiverse 01:21:39 Lean into that which would devastate you 01:26:47 Scientists and religion 01:34:02 What happened on the dust front? 01:42:54 The status of the quantum fluctuation field agglomeration theory 01:45:20 A little story from Exodus and 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 😀 ! ➡️ Check out Jordan Peterson: 💻 Website: https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/ ➡️ 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	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:11.6	Open the pod bay doors now.
0:15.0	Dr Keating, do you, let's start out by telling everybody what your primary focus of concern is as a researcher and then let's delve into what you can bring to people as a consequence
0:26.7	of that research, what they need to know about the cosmic structure, let's say. Yeah, so I always ask people you know what's the most important day on the calendar to them and usually I get some version of you know
0:39.4	Christmas or my birthday or my you know hopefully for them my spouse's birthday
0:44.0	and it's an origin story and I think humans are fascinated with origin stories
0:49.0	how did we come to be here?
0:50.0	Because we don't know right we come in as they say in media rays in the middle of the story and so how do you get to understand
0:58.1	what happened before you the prehistory and the biggest prehistory of all is how the cosmos came to be.
1:04.0	And my research centers on the oldest fossils of the earliest epoch in the universe.
1:10.0	So I'm an experimental cosmologist.
1:12.0	You've discussed many times with more theoretically inclined individuals.
1:17.0	I actually build the telescopes, my colleagues and I, my students and I,
1:20.9	we build telescopes that peer back as far as possible using light.
1:26.0	Now the light's not light we can see with the human eye.
1:29.0	It's in the form of microwaves because the universe has been expanding for some 13.8 billion years since a big bang and
1:37.7	we'll get to the question of whether or not there was more than one big bang I hope
1:40.9	later on and the universe as it expands has cooled off from a fiery hot
1:46.2	hellscape of an inferno to a more you know moderate climate that will support the existence of planets and people and all sorts of other
1:56.9	interesting forms of matter. But the question of how the matter came to be in the first place
2:01.5	is really the purview of what I do as an experimentalist.
2:04.9	So my job as an experimentalist is not to prove theorists right, it's to prove everything else
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