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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating On The Leon Logothetis Podcast ​(#221)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The following is my appearance on the Leon Logothetis Podcast. Leon is the creator of THE KINDNESS DIARIES on Netflix and Amazon. He’s known for creating content around the world to highlight the best in humanity, and it was a privilege to be on his show. The show’s premise is that Leon does NOT know who is going to be his guest. That is why we start off with introductions. I was a bit nervous about going in blind, but Leon made it a great experience. Subscribe to his podcast here. From Leon’s show notes: “My guest this week is Brian Keating, who is an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background, using it to learn about the origins and evolution of the universe. Brian is an author, speaker, inventor and a Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. It was a privilege to have Brian on the show and share his incredible knowledge about the cosmos. I left this conversation 38% smarter than before it!” Please Visit our Sponsors: LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/impossible to post a job for FREE Athletic Greens, makers of AG1 which I take every day. Get an exclusive offer when you visit https://athleticgreens.com/impossible AG1 is made from the highest quality ingredients, in accordance with the strictest standards and obsessively improved based on the latest science. All 33 Chairs. My All33 Chair is the ideal chair for all of us ‘knowledge workers’ suffering through unending Zoom calls. Sitting still is bad for you. All33 chairs are my choice because they allow your pelvis to move the way it does while you walk — so all 33 vertebrae align into perfect posture. The result? Better breathing, better blood flow, and relief from pain. It’s crazy what you can do when you set your body to it. To get $100 off your order, visit https://all33.com/impossible Search for The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts, or go to jordanharbinger.com/subscribe Please join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php Produced by Stuart Volkow (P.G.A) and Brian Keating 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. Open the pod bay doors, please help.

0:16.0

Hello?

0:18.0

Hello there.

0:20.0

How are you?

0:21.0

I'm good, how are you?

0:22.0

I'm doing really well. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. And who am I meeting?

0:29.6

Well you're meeting a Keating. My name is Brian Keating. I'm a professor of astrophysics and cosmology at the University of California, San Diego, and the host of the Into the Impossible Podcast as well. Okay, so you are an expert in space. I'm a space expert. I study

0:50.8

physics, astronomy, cosmology, the origin of the universe and the evolution of what's going to happen to the universe and just a few short billion years

1:09.7

The the the origin years. The origin of the universe, so maybe you can answer the question that I have wanted to be answered since the beginning of my existence.

1:14.0

What happened before the Big Bang?

1:20.0

What was there before the big bang?

1:25.0

That is the $1 million question. I say 1 million because that's how much money you win if you win a Nobel Prize.

1:32.0

So if we can a Nobel Prize.

1:33.0

So if we can answer that question with the observatory,

1:36.0

if you're watching this, there's an observatory,

1:38.0

a bunch of little telescopes in the background,

1:40.0

that is the Simon's Observatory,

1:42.0

which is designed to answer your question, Leon.

1:44.9

It's designed to answer the question of, as I say, what happened on the Tuesday before the big bag?

1:50.9

There are some such as a famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking who said that question is

1:56.9

meaningless. You can't even ask the question, not let alone answer it, because it's nonsensical to speak about time before the existence of time itself.

2:07.8

So how could there be before or an after when time itself came into existence, according to Professor late grade Stephen Hawking coming up on four years since he passed away.

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