Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Open the pod bay doors now.

Welcome back to my channel.

This is Brian Keating.

I'm the Chancellor's Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego.

I've been an astronomer for over 40 years and I hope to convey some of that

lifelong learning and loving that I've had of astronomy with some new discoveries that are being

made both in optical astronomy and how astronomy relates to the brain. And to do this we're going to take a tour of the similarities and the differences between the human eyeball and the telescope.

The human eyeball is effectively a telescope that you're born with.

It has all the features of a modern telescopic camera system and will investigate those

as well as some of the fascinating connections between the eye and the brain.

And this is partially in preparation for an upcoming episode of Andrew Huberman's

Huberman Lab podcast, which I've been invited upon, and I plan to talk about these similarities

with Andrew when I do go on this podcast.

Andrew and I have other similarities such as the fact that we were both inspired in some way

to become scientists around the same age by encountering very inexpensive or as Andrew loves to say low cost to consumer tools of science.

In his case it was the aquarium and fish. He loved learning about them he'd collect fish.

For me it was getting a cheap telescope, no bigger than this one,

to explore the mysteries of the universe

as I could perceive them from my home in Dabs Ferry, New York.

So today, I hope to instill some of that inspiration in you, especially your parents out there.

Those who are interested can find a buyer's guy for telescopes on my website.

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