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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating Discusses the Meaning of Life and Science With Eric Metaxas

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 53 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! Join Eric Metaxas and me for a thought-provoking discussion on the origins of the Universe, the Big Bang theory, and the multiverse. I also share my personal experience of almost winning the Nobel Prize and how it changed my perspective on the pursuit of scientific knowledge. Eric Metaxas is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Bonhoeffer and many other books, including Is Atheism Dead?, Martin Luther, Amazing Grace, and Letter to the American Church, which was made into a full-length documentary by the same name. Metaxas’s latest book is Religionless Christianity: God’s Answer to Evil. He has written over thirty children’s books, including the bestsellers Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving and It’s Time to Sleep, My Love, illustrated by Nancy Tillman. His books have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He hosts Socrates in the City and the nationally syndicated Eric Metaxas Radio Show — “The Show about Everything!” — which also airs as a weekly TV program on TBN. Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:01:17 Losing the Nobel Prize 00:03:56 Looking into the past with telescopes 00:14:39 The origin of the universe 00:21:04 What happened before the Big Bang? 00:27:32 Does the standard model imply multiverses? 00:38:29 Faith, science, and the multiverse 00:48:34 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 😀 ! ➡️ Connect with Eric Metaxas: 💻 Website: https://ericmetaxas.com/ ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ericmetaxas/ ➡️ 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

As the announcer of this show, I said, Welcome to the Eric Mataxes Show.

0:13.0

As the announcer of this show, I sometimes ask myself,

0:16.0

to what shall I compare Eric?

0:18.0

Shall I compare him to a summer's day?

0:20.0

Rough winds to shake the darling buts of May.

0:23.2

But not Eric, I'll tell you nothing shakes this guy.

0:25.3

And now here he is, wearing green leotards and a jesters coxcomb, Eric Mataxus.

0:29.7

Take 10 times.

0:30.7

Stage left.

0:31.3

How does he know that? How does he know that? He's in California. Fascinating.

0:37.0

Folks, speaking of fascinating, as you know, this is the show about everything.

0:41.0

The Aircum Taxis show is officially known as the show about everything. The Airman Taxis Show is officially known as the show about everything.

0:44.9

And when you're talking about everything, that includes science.

0:48.7

It includes the Nobel Prize.

0:50.8

It includes a lot of things that I'm going to talk about today. I have for

0:55.0

the full hour Brian Keating, who has written a spectacular new book called

1:01.0

Losing the Nobel Prize, a story of cosmology, ambition, and the perils of science's highest

1:10.8

honor. He's with me now Brian Keating welcome to the program.

1:15.0

Thanks Eric, it's a great pleasure to be with you.

1:18.0

I have to say this is a spectacular story.

1:22.0

I had no idea and I'm sure most people unless they've read a review of

1:25.9

this book have no idea of the story that you tell in it. It's a little bit

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