Welcome back to the Book Club. I'm Michael Knowles and for this episode we are going to do something we've never done on the book club before.

We are going to pry open a science textbook, but it's much less dry than it sounds.

This is a very old school science textbook.

It's not even really a textbook.

It's a dialogue concerning the two chief world systems

by Galileo. But first, in our fast-paced world it is tough to make

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We are going to put our minds in motion talking about the motion of the solar system, the motion of the universe, and we will do that with an actual scientist.

My guest Brian Keating, the Chancellor Distinguished Professor Physics at UC San Diego, and the author of losing the Nobel Prize.

Brian, thank you for being here.

It's a great pleasure to be here, Michael.

And Brian, I also have to thank you, you brought me presents.

I did. And you're the first guest to bring me presents, including a piece of the moon.

Yes. You brought me somehow a pea. I don't even know, did you, did you hit your ride with Richard Branson or so?

I don't know.

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