Ep. 685: Lawrence Krauss Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist, professor at Arizona State University, director of its Origins Project and author of bestselling books: “The Physics of Star Trek” and “A Universe from Nothing.” He is an advocate for science based data, public policy based on sound empirical data, and scientific skepticism. His goal is to reduce the influence of superstition and religious dogma in popular culture. Richard Feynman has played a large role in Lawrence and his studies. He is a great example of someone who did not let other’s hinder him. Feynman was charismatic, intelligent, and excited about all things new – he didn’t rely on other’s opinions. The charisma Feynman possessed, combined with the genius of his science made him the legend.

The topic is his book The Greatest Story Ever Told–So Far: Why Are We Here?.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Big bang theory
Religion in science
Simulations
Skepticism

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.3	My guest today, Lawrence Krause, he is an American-Canadian, theoretical physicist and cosmologist,
0:40.6	who is the foundation professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University.
0:46.4	He's also the director of its origins project.
0:50.2	Lawrence has had a long and interesting career, ups and downs all around, but a very bright
0:56.6	guy with some extremely interesting books.
0:59.7	For example, the physics of Star Trek, a universe from nothing, and the greatest story
1:05.2	ever told so far, why are we here?
1:09.6	Beyond my podcast today, if you're interested in a little bit more
1:13.2	about Lawrence and his beliefs, go on over to YouTube. You will find a long history of him giving
1:21.6	really interesting presentations. And one quick reminder before we get into my guest today,
1:29.7	if you like this podcast, head on over to iTunes. I would appreciate a review. Let me know what you think. I want to hear it. The good,
1:35.2	the bad, and the ugly. Let's go ahead and jump right into my guest today, Lawrence Krauss.
1:47.9	I think about you.
1:54.1	I go through your career, all the cool topics you've been in the middle of, all the cool insights you've pulled out.
1:56.9	We can only just touch on things in this conversation.
1:59.6	We're going to send a lot of people to Amazon to buy books for sure.
2:05.6	But I'd love to take you back in time to a very young man for you. When was the first moment you can really imagine that you were a skeptic?
2:10.6	When did it hit you that you knew, hold on, whether it's just instinct or gut, you just
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