Michael Shermer & Brian Keating Part 2: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof (#149)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:07.0	Welcome to Part 2 of this fascinating discussion between Michael Schurmer and Brian Heating
0:18.6	about Brian's recent article in the Skeptic magazine, how it all began, cosmic inflation, the
0:26.0	multiverse, and the nature of scientific proof.
0:30.3	I'm going to ask you on the back back to that Hawking book because I'm not seeing it Hawking
0:35.0	Hawking very clever title. I've always wondered is he really a world-class one of the
0:40.8	top ever physicist physicist, whatever, or does his condition
0:47.1	and his heroic continuation of his work in life
0:51.6	despite these incredible conditions against him kind of elevate him into almost a godlike status.
0:58.0	I used to see him every couple years he'd come to Caltech and give a public talk.
1:03.6	You know, it was quite a show when he would show up at Caltech, you know, it'd be like, well, Stephen is speaking
1:07.7	next Wednesday night at seven.
1:10.0	All right, well, like at two in the afternoon, there's people lined up,
1:13.4	you know, out in the lawn, playing Frisbee and waiting, you know, for their free spot
1:16.8	in the, in the 1100 seat auditorium.
1:20.1	It's like, wow.
1:20.8	And then, you know, he rolls down the aisle with his helpers in his chair standing
1:25.0	ovation just for showing up before he even speaks and you know people just
1:29.0	hanging on every sentence and of course I get it because you know his condition his heroism and so on but I
1:34.9	always wondered you know is he you know way up there in the pantheon of the
1:38.8	greatest of all time you know Newton Einstein fineman Hawking orman, Hawking, or not.
1:43.5	I just really have no way to judge that.
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