Brian Keating Discusses the Early Universe & Science Communication with Lawrence Krauss

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 113 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! In this personal conversation with a long-time friend of the show, Lawrence Krauss, I talk about my origins, my passion for physics, how I started researching the CMB, the BICEP experiments, my relationship with religion and Judaism, and much more. Tune in! Lawrence M. Krauss is a highly acclaimed theoretical physicist, commentator, bestselling author, President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of the Origins Podcast. Among his many significant scientific contributions was the 1995 proposal that most of the Universe's energy resides in empty space. Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:38 My origins 00:09:27 The importance of reading science and sci-fi 00:20:11 My passion for physics 00:30:49 On religion & my relationship with Judaism 00:49:35 Why I research the CMB 01:05:12 The BICEP experiments 01:17:39 The rush to publish 01:23:24 Inflation theory and the multiverse 01:35:52 Simons Array and Simons Observatory 01:51:37 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 Lawrence Krauss: 📚 The Edge of Knowledge by Lawrence Krauss: https://a.co/d/2Dtwy3x 💻 Website: https://lawrencemkrauss.com/ ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LKrauss1 ➡️ 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	I don't think there's a way in all of science that you can replicate the visceral feeling of discovery that you can when you look through a telescope.
0:08.2	You can't do it with a large Hadron collider in your backyard.
0:11.7	You can't do it looking at you know with an electron microscope
0:15.0	but if you look through a telescope immediately get transformed to the feeling that Galileo
0:19.6	had when he looked up. I think that's remarkable. I think it's unparalleled in all of science.
0:23.3	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:34.4	Open the pod bay doors.
0:38.4	We have chatted before and it's always fun and I want to have a chance to talk about some things we haven't talked about, which is mostly your work and your background.
0:47.0	And as you know, this is an origins podcast, so I like to talk about people's origins and I want to begin with yours because I've known some things about it, but I want to be
0:58.2	I I want to be able to go into into depth in a way that I hadn't before
1:06.0	You your father was a well-known mathematician, right? It's a male-known mathematician.
1:09.0	But, well, I wondered who...
1:11.0	But I'm also, I also know that you sort of were disconnected for a bunch of years
1:17.6	when your parents got divorced and you later on reconnected.
1:21.1	And if you don't mind talking a little bit about that I would be happy to find out about that sort of influence because I guess I would guess that his influence as a mathematician
1:30.5	affected you later rather than earlier when you were very young and I'm
1:33.5	wondering what got you interested in science at the beginning like what's your
1:36.2	mother was your mother a scientist so those are all a bunch of questions.
1:39.6	I don't know she she was yeah she was brilliant she is brilliant. She is
1:43.0	she thankfully is still alive. My father of course passed away very young and
1:47.2	69 years old. But no my mother didn't give me any scientific I I mean, it's kind of, I'm a scientist despite my father being a scientist and despite my mother being a non-scientist.
1:59.0	It was kind of a way to, to teleport me away from the strife that the divorced children go through or children of
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