Exploring Curiosity With Nobel Prize Winner Barry Barish (#374)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Remastered from our interview in May 2023 A few months ago, I had the pleasure of interviewing the Nobel Laureate, Barry Barish, for UCTV. Barry is an experimental physicist and a professor at UC Riverside. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics along with Rainer Weiss and Kip Thorne for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. In our interview, Barry reflects on his life in science, being curious, experiencing imposter syndrome, and working in the field of physics. Tune in! Key Takeaways: Intro (00:00) How to get over impostor syndrome (00:40) Exploring curiosity (06:34) The art of science (11:08) The probability of a quantum theory of gravity (21:36) Would Barry visit a black hole? (26:12) Barry’s origin story (30:53) Could we make an AI physicist? (42:19) Outro (46:12) — Additional resources: 📢 Ownership of your health starts with AG1. Try AG1 and get a FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D3K2 and 5 FREE AG1 Travel Packs with your first purchase 👉 https://drinkag1.com/impossible ➡️ 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/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ 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 follow so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think we're all curious so it's hard for me to say that it's something we have to teach it's something that we have to support and
0:10.0	something that we have to let grow and thrive.
0:12.6	That's why all kids, they are adventurous.
0:15.4	I really don't think the big problem is somehow
0:18.3	teaching kids how to be curious.
0:20.0	I think it's somehow stimulating them
0:22.1	to be curious and effective and positive way.
0:25.6	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:37.0	Open the pod bay doors.
0:40.0	Barry Barrish, welcome back to the Into the Impossible Podcast.
0:44.0	It's your third time on the show.
0:47.0	Thank you so much for doing this.
0:49.0	Hi Brian.
0:50.0	Good.
0:51.0	You're one of our audience's most favorite
0:54.0	favorite guests for many reasons and very special to me and
0:58.0	influence on my life and career and actually the progenitor
1:02.0	in some sense of my second book called
1:04.0	Into the Impossible. Think like a Nobel Prize winner which you did honor me by
1:09.8	writing the forward to that book, the second book.
1:14.4	And since you've been on the show,
1:16.8	the first time in 2020,
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