Part of 1 of 2 – Lawrence Krauss: The Physics of Everything (#170)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

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🗓️ 27 July 2021

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Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author, as well as being an acclaimed lecturer. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of The Origins Podcast, His wide research interests have focused on the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, including the origin and evolution of the Universe and the fundamental structure of matter. Among his numerous important scientific contributions was the proposal, in 1995, that most of the energy of the Universe resided in empty space. Krauss previously served as Director of Arizona State University's Origins Project, and Foundation Professor for a decade from 2008-2018, and also as Chair of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists from 2006-2018. Prof. Krauss has held endowed professorships and distinguished research appointments at institutions including Harvard University, Yale University, University of Chicago, Boston University, University of Zurich, University of California at Santa Barbara, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), Case Western Reserve University, Australian National University, Arizona State University, and New College of Humanities. In 2008 he created and served for a decade as Inaugural Director of the Origins Project, a national center for research and outreach on origins issues. He has written over 500 publications and 10 popular books, including the international best-sellers, The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing. Among his numerous awards are included the three major awards from all 3 US physics societies and the 2012 Public Service Award from the National Science Board for his contributions to the public understanding of science. Support our Sponsor LinkedIn Jobs! Use this link to post your first job ad for FREE LinkedIn.com/impossiblebiOptimizers for better sleep https://magbreakthrough.com/impossible Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating And please join my mailing list to get resources and enter giveaways to win a FREE copy of my book (and more) http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 🎥 🎥 Watch my most popular videos🎥 🎥 Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and 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 🏄‍♂️ Find me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔥 Find me on Instagram at https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 📖 Buy my book LOSING THE NOBEL PRIZE: http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA 🔔 Subscribe for more great content https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ✍️Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 📧Join my mailing list: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 👪Join my Facebook Group: https://facebook.com/losingthenobelprize 🎙️Please subscribe, rate, and review the INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-the-impossible/id1169885840?mt=2 🎙️Listen on all other platforms: https://wavve.link/into A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I want to ask you about the very title of your book and the idea of something from nothing.
0:09.0	You are telling us that matter arose spontaneously out of nothing, which I find an immensely exciting
0:21.2	idea, but many people will find it mind-boggling.
0:25.6	Mind-boggling and offensive.
0:27.2	I think maybe not as offensive.
0:28.6	I tell was offensive, but mind-boggling...
0:30.6	No, no, no.
0:31.6	Well you're not offended but I've checked my email
0:37.0	it amazes me because the purpose of the book to some extent is to say something remarkable and you were kind enough in the
0:44.8	afterward to point out the analogy to Darwin and I was a pretentious to make it
0:48.7	perhaps but but the physicist Stephen Weinberg said, science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God.
0:56.6	It just makes it possible to not believe in God.
0:59.0	Because until you have science, everything's a miracle.
1:01.8	And what Darwin showed, as you've said at the beginning of our discussion, is this miracle
1:06.2	is actually plausible from basic principles of physics, chemistry, and biology.
1:10.0	That you can produce us without a creator.
1:15.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Kraus, author of so many books to read their titles would take us to the end of the
1:35.3	podcast. Of course this is the number one New York Times best-selling, a universe from
1:41.1	nothing. He's written the physics of Star Trek and he's also
1:45.7	written the physics of climate change. So this episode is just called the
1:48.0	physics of Lawrence and I want to welcome you to to my podcast. It's been
1:52.4	three presidential
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