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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Paul Davies: What's Eating The Universe? ​(#207)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

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🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Paul Davies is an internationally acclaimed physicist, cosmologist, and astrobiologist at Arizona State University, where he runs the pioneering Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He also chairs the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Post-Detection Task group, so that if SETI succeeds in finding intelligent life, he will be among the first to know. The asteroid 1992OG was officially renamed Pauldavies in his honor. In addition to his many scientific awards, Davies is the recipient of the 1995 Templeton Prize--the world's largest annual prize--for his work on science and religion. He is the author of more than twenty books, including The Mind of God, About Time, How to Build a Time Machine, and The Goldilocks Enigma. He lives in Tempe, Arizona. Buy What's Eating The Universe - https://amzn.to/3nyERyB Please join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php00:00:00 Intro 00:20:36 How do you know when to pursue a scientific hint with further research? 00:33:40 What's unique about your approach to science? 00:38:26 The laws of nature are not perfectly symmetrical. Why tro to find a unifying theory? 00:46:15 What is the Bunch-Davies Vacuum State? 00:52:14 Why did Stephen Hawking make implausible bets? 00:57:50 On black holes and singularities. 01:00:52 Lorentz Invariance and measuring the expansion of the universe with Hawking Radiation. 01:10:19 What are your thoughts on life as information? 01:16:00 Do you believe in God or is that even a meaningful question? 01:25:00 Have your feelings changed on the multiverse and un-falsifiable conjectures in general? 01:41:11 What advice would you give your younger self about how to venture into the impossible? 01:31:53 What advice would you leave in your ethical will? 01:38:20 What would you put on your billion-year time capsule/monolith for the ages? 📺 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 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Neil deGrasse Tyson https://youtu.be/1kxgK6J4S5Y Michio Kaku: https://youtu.be/3to9ymn-XKI Michael Saylor: https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose: https://youtu.be/AMuqyAvX7Wo 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/sh98cwRkzAA Sarah Rugheimer: https://youtu.be/w5DxU-lPYK4 Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Avi Loeb: https://youtu.be/N9lUceHsLRw Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM Be my friend: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php ✍️ 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 Please contact [email protected] to learn more about sponsoring Into the Impossible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ask questions like what happened before the Big Bang, what is the nature of time and then you

0:10.9

go to quantum physics, what's the nature of reality and then you go to quantum physics what's the nature of reality and then you go

0:14.6

to life what is life and then what is consciousness you know all those things

0:17.6

which I love to think about you can't think about those without coming up

0:21.9

against those same age old questions that for centuries

0:25.6

were part of religion.

0:27.4

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Open the pod bay doors now.

0:35.0

I am thrilled to welcome to the Into the Impossible

0:38.7

podcast a legendary cosmologist, a physicist, an author, an intellectual, and a scholar who was my last guest live in person

0:50.0

before the pandemic set in in January 2020.

0:54.6

He was gracious enough to come to UCSD and did an event

0:57.8

with one of the Benford boys. I always mix up if is Greg or if it's James, but no mind.

1:04.0

We talked about whether or not E.T. is lurking in our cosmic backyard.

1:08.9

And we had a great discussion about one of Paul's great books from, at time it was a 10 year old book I believe

1:14.8

and that was about the eerie silence and today he's back with a new book and it is

1:20.3

called what is eating not keating what is eating the universe and I want to understand as we often want to be told not to do

1:30.8

Paul the advice is often saying,

1:33.0

don't judge a book by its cover, but I want to judge this book by its cover.

1:36.0

How did you come up with the title and the cover design,

1:39.0

which is actually quasi three dimensional?

1:42.0

I mean, it actually opens it's it's quite beautiful so

1:44.8

tell us Paul what what is the origin of this very provocative and whimsical title?

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