How I Lost the Nobel Prize and What I Learned from the Experience w/ Jordan Harbinger

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What’s it like to almost win and then lose the Nobel Prize? In 2014, using the BICEP2 telescope, we believed we had caught a glimpse of the spark that ignited the universe. Millions watched our announcement live from Harvard, sparking rumors of a Nobel Prize. But were we truly seeing the cosmic prologue, or were we deceived by a galactic mirage? I had the pleasure of discussing BICEP2's discovery, the intense scientific drama that followed, and what I learned from the whole experience with Jordan Harbinger on his show. Enjoy! — Key Takeaways: 00:00 Intro 01:47 The discovery that almost won me the Nobel Prize 03:30 Why I didn’t end up getting the Nobel Prize 10:41 Everything wrong with the Nobel Prize 16:36 Ethical wills 24:02 Deprogramming yourself 37:20 Reframing losses 46:37 Outro — Additional resources: ➡️ Check out The Jordan Harbinger Show: 💻 Website: https://www.jordanharbinger.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 follow/subscribe so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	to come so close and not win after all the blood sweat and tears and travel and people that I knew and loved and lost
0:07.0	over the decade it took to make these measurements. It was quite crushing, but ultimately I came to see it as sort of a journey of introspection
0:16.1	why did I care so much to win this prize was it just for my father's you know kind of
0:20.8	accolades and adoration was it for something inside of me a need that I had to be you know held up in the
0:26.7	esteem.
0:30.7	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:40.0	Open the pod bay doors.
0:42.0	Brian, thanks for coming on the show.
0:43.6	Thanks Jordan.
0:44.4	It's a real pleasure to be here.
0:46.3	Yeah, you sound like you meant that.
0:48.0	Yeah, it's true.
0:49.1	It's only taking me a couple of years.
0:51.2	Yeah, that's true.
0:53.1	Now the book is losing the Nobel Prize,
0:55.1	which is kind of an interesting angle
0:56.3	because normally you'd think, wow, we have Nobel laureates coming on.
0:59.2	And you're like a Nobel Unloriate.
1:01.7	Is that the honor that we're talking about here? Honorable mention,
1:04.9	or dishonorable mention? Yeah, well actually, you know, the book started off as a, uh, with a title losing
1:10.1	the Nobel Prize, sort of as a double entendre, as our French listeners might say.
1:14.8	And that's that, you know, I knew personally for reasons we can get into that I had created a
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