Rationally Speaking #106 - Live From NECSS With Lawrence Krauss

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Society & Culture, Skepticism, Science, Philosophy

4.6 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2014

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Rationally Speaking returns to NECSS for a live show with Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist and author of best selling books like The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing. Julia and Massimo chat with Lawrence about whether the laws of the universe demand some kind of explanation, whether string theory should be deemed a failure, and how he ended up featured in a geocentrist documentary.

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0:00.0	Rationally speaking is a presentation of New York City skeptics dedicated to promoting critical thinking, skeptical inquiry, and science education.
0:22.4	For more information, please visit us at NYC Skeptics.org.
0:35.7	Welcome to rationally speaking, the podcast where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.
0:41.7	I am Massimo Pilucci, your host, and with me as always is my co-host, Julia Galev.
0:46.8	Julia, what are we going to talk about today?
0:49.1	Well, Massimo, today is a very special episode. First, because we are here recording live in front of the lovely audience at
0:56.0	the Northeast Conference on Science, New York, I'm sorry, what was that again? North East Conference on Science
1:03.5	and Skepticism. And secondly, because we have an amazing guest that we are very much looking forward to chatting with on the show today, our guest is Lawrence Krause, who is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State, as well as one of the biggest and arguably the best, science communicators in the world,
1:29.2	having authored such bestsellers as the physics of Star Trek, and more recently, a universe
1:34.4	from nothing, although arguably his biggest claimed fame is having been once quoted by Miley Cyrus.
1:42.2	Absolutely.
1:43.3	For which reason alone, he was a shoe in for the rationally speaking podcast.
1:47.7	That's true.
1:48.1	I keep forgetting to put that in my CV, but I suppose I should.
1:50.2	It should be at the top in, you know, gold glitter letters, really.
1:55.0	Lawrence, welcome to the show.
1:56.0	It's so great to have you.
1:56.8	It's great to be here.
1:57.8	Thank you very much.
1:59.7	Thank you.
2:01.6	Thank you. Lawrence, the first question is going to be an obvious one.
2:05.6	I heard that you and Captain Genway these days go around promoting flat Earth.
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