The BIGGEST Questions In the Universe! (#347)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In this special edition of the Foundational Questions Podcast, physicist Brian Keating discusses his book Losing The Nobel Prize, which recounts the ill-fated BICEP2 announcement--and retraction--of the claimed discovery of primordial gravitational waves in 2014. Listen for the special treat at the end. A poetic ode to cosmic dust. https://fqxi.org/ 🥗 Thanks, HelloFresh! Go to HelloFresh.com/50impossible and use code 50impossible for 50% off plus 15% off the next 2 months. 📝 With a MasterClass annual membership, you can take one-on-one classes from the world’s best for $10 a month with your annual membership, get unlimited access to every class — and even better, right now, as an Into The Impossible listener, you can get 15% off when you go to MASTERCLASS.com/impossible. 🧑‍💻 Visit LinkedIn.com/IMPOSSIBLE to post your job for free! ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast — Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to follow so you never miss an episode! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And scientists, despite the stereotypes that were dispassionate, purely rational observers that are
0:11.2	purely seeking truth and not these accolades prizes awards and
0:15.0	fame I think that's a distorted narrative and I want to portray it
0:18.7	warts and all including my own foibles and my own kind of failings as a human being, you know, who is desperate for
0:26.3	a Nobel gold, but also telling the story that is one of redemption and that we don't only have
0:32.4	to be defined by our failings and that by failing we can actually
0:37.0	construct a success in the future.
0:41.0	Welcome everyone to this replay edition of Into the Impossible
0:47.1	featuring your host Brian Keating on the Foundational Questions
0:50.7	Podcast from the Foundational Questions Institute.
0:53.3	FQXI is an independent grant-making agency and Think Tank
0:56.5	which provides support for Blue Sky Research and the Physical Sciences.
0:59.9	The Institute supports unconventional high-risk speculance science.
1:04.6	This podcast is therefore an at place for your host Professor Brian Heating to talk about his
1:09.0	quest to solve some of the greatest mysteries of Cosmo Genesis and his book,
1:13.0	losing the Nobel Prize.
1:14.0	In this in-depth interview, Brian takes us behind the curtain of high-stakes science
1:17.0	and what drives him.
1:19.0	He'll get some personal insights into Brian's first book,
1:21.0	losing the Nobel Prize, and his ongoing research is
1:24.1	the essence of the Big Bang.
1:26.1	If you love thinking about the biggest questions in the universe, including its origin,
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