Brian Keating On Black Holes, Wormholes and the Origin of Everything w/ James Altucher

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 50 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! A couple of months ago, I had the pleasure of chatting with James Altucher. James is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, bestselling author, and host of The James Altucher show. In the first part of our interview, James wanted to learn more about black holes, wormholes, and the origin of the universe, so we explored these topics in detail. Enjoy! Key Takeaways: 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:37 IQ and intelligence 00:01:40 History of the alphabet and Rosetta Stone 00:03:12 Recent JWST discoveries and black holes 00:07:19 The relationship between time and gravity 00:11:51 Falling into a black hole 00:23:39 Mathematics vs. physics 00:27:53 What happened with Mercury? 00:33:00 Why is there dark matter? 00:35:45 The concept of a wormhole 00:38:07 Limits of the speed of light and Einstein’s relativity 00:49:47 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 James Altucher: 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheJamesAltucherShow 💻 Website: https://jamesaltucher.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	So we had, you know, Aristotle, but then we had Isaac Newton, then we had Einstein, then we had quantum mechanics,
0:06.0	and it's sort of like the height of creativity. Physics is very creative in the sense that there's proving things in physics and then we assume they're true.
0:14.4	But then there's another group of physicists that come along and say,
0:17.0	you know what, I'm going to change the rules for a little while,
0:19.2	because we don't really know what the real first principles are. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:35.0	Open the pod bay doors now.
0:37.0	You ever go on Quora when occasionally there's a question like,
0:40.0	what's it like to have a 180 IQ.
0:43.0	And then someone answers as if,
0:45.0	because they think they have 180 IQ
0:47.0	and they're like,
0:48.0	I'm very, I feel very alienated all the time
0:50.0	because no one ever understands me.
0:52.0	Or it's like, I process all the time because no one ever understands me or it's like I process in all the
0:54.7	information around me so much faster than everyone else that it's hard to then
0:58.4	communicate what I'm seeing and feeling because I know so much like Like it's just, there's so much ego
1:04.2	when anyone asked that question on Quora or any
1:06.6	or ready or whatever.
1:08.1	Yeah, it's like when someone asks you,
1:09.9	you know, you're a comedian, like what makes you so funny like it's guaranteed
1:13.9	the response. No one ever asked me that when I was a comedian. It's good because
1:17.4	there's no way to be funny. There's no way to answer that question and
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