Part 1 of 2: Eric Weinstein n- WTF Happened in 1971: An INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Birthday Extravaganza 🎉! (#181)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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What happened in 1971 (besides my birth on September 9th, 1971)? Answer: a lot! Topics: GU update, Science vs. Politics, Elon Musk vs. Physics, and WTF is a Kayfabe? I'd be honored if you'd get me two (free) birthday presents 🎉: Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel, just click here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 and Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel, just click here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 Find Eric https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR85PW_B_7_Aisx5vNS7Gjw And https://ericweinstein.org Pre-order my second book, coming 9/28/2021: Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: Lessons from Laureates to Stoke Curiosity, Spur Collaboration, and Ignite Imagination in Your Life and Career https://amzn.to/2UPTxOI Find supplemental info here https://wtfhappenedin1971.com LinkedIn Jobs is the best platform for finding the right candidate to join your business this fall. It’s the largest marketplace for job seekers in the world, and it has great search features so that you can find candidates with any hard or soft skills that you need. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit linkedin.com/impossible to post a job for free. Audible is hands-down my favorite platform for consuming podcasts, fiction and nonfiction books! With an Audible membership, you can download titles and listen offline, anytime, anywhere. The Audible app is free and can be installed on all smartphones and tablets. You can listen across devices without losing your spot. Audible members don’t have to worry about using their credits right away. You can keep your credits for up to a year—and use them to binge on a whole series if you’d like! And if you’re not loving your selection, you can simply swap it for another.Start your free 30-day trial today: Audible.com/impossible or text “impossible” to 500-500 📺 Watch my most popular videos:📺 A New Contender is Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6A6myur--c Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Eric Weinstein and Stephen Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM 🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. Welcome to part one of this special two-part birthday Russia Shuna edition of
0:10.0	Into the Impossible with Brian Keating and Eric Weinstein.
0:14.4	Any sufficient advanced technology
0:20.0	is indistinguishable from magic.
0:22.4	Happy birthday to you.
0:25.0	Thank you, my friend.
0:26.0	It is great to be with good friends
0:28.0	on a special auspicious occasion
0:30.3	just after the New Year.
0:31.2	Shana Tovar, let me be the first to wish you a happy 13,900,000,
0:37.5	782.
0:38.9	That's what we cosmologists now say.
0:41.4	I see.
0:42.4	And can we find this to the to the Jewish calendar or what?
0:45.7	Yeah we synchronize there's some calibration error in the very beginning.
0:49.8	Some Lorentz fact. Did I ever tell you my Lorentz Factor story?
0:52.8	No.
0:53.8	There I am.
0:54.8	Minding my own business, wandering the fourth floor of the American Natural History Museum
0:59.5	in New York.
1:01.1	And we're going past all the dinosaur fossils and I see this very proper
1:04.9	firm couple Orthodox Jews wandering around and I said look I mean I just ask you guys
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