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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Where Did The Universe Come From? Geraint Lewis (#232)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Science, Physics, Natural Sciences

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever look up to the stars and wonder about what is out there? Over the last few centuries, humans have successfully unraveled much of the language of the universe, exploring and defining formerly mysterious phenomena such as electricity, magnetism, and matter through the beauty of mathematics. But some secrets remain beyond our realm of understanding—and seemingly beyond the very laws and theories we have relied on to make sense of the universe we inhabit. It is clear that the quantum, the world of atoms and electrons, is entwined with the cosmos, a universe of trillions of stars and galaxies...but exactly how these two extremes of human understanding interact remains a mystery. Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions allows readers to eavesdrop on a conversation between award-winning physicists Chris Ferrie and Geraint F. Lewis as they examine the universe through the two unifying and yet often contradictory lenses of classical physics and quantum mechanics, tackling questions such as: Where did the universe come from? Why do dying stars rip themselves apart Do black holes last forever? What is left for humans to discover? Geraint Lewis is a Welsh astrophysicist, who is best known for his work on dark energy, gravitational lensing and galactic cannibalism. Lewis is a Professor of Astrophysics (Teaching and Research) at the Sydney Institute for Astronomy, part of the University of Sydney's School of Physics. He is head of the Gravitational Astrophysics Group. He was previously the Associate Head for Research at the School of Physics, and held an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship between 2011 and 2015. Lewis won the 2016 Walter Boas Medal in recognition of excellence in research in Physics. I In April 2020, Geraint was elected as a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He is also an elected fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Please Visit our Sponsors LinkedIn.com/impossible to post a job for FREE Search for The Jordan Harbinger Show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, wherever you listen to podcasts, or go to jordanharbinger.com/subscribe Athletic Greens, makers of AG1 which I take every day. Get an exclusive offer when you visit https://athleticgreens.com/impossible AG1 is made from the highest quality ingredients, in accordance with the strictest standards and obsessively improved based on the latest science. 📺 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 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 Brown Graduate student receives PhD at age 90: https://bit.ly/3ziKRCo Brian's Horace Mann Medal announcement; stay tuned for my commencement speech https://bit.ly/38BuZQs A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I think it's good to be provocative but that's what we wanted to do with the book is

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present those kinds of questions you could have about the universe. The why

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questions of course are always somewhat dangerous questions to head into but I think the

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where you can talk about is being based in physics right I mean I want to understand the physical process

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by which our universe came into being.

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Hi everyone and welcome to another very special episode of the Into the

0:28.4

Impossible podcast.

0:29.4

It is I, you're a fearful host, Professor Brian Keating, at the University of California,

0:35.2

in San Diego.

0:36.7

I am kind of still buzzing from a trip I got back from just recently.

0:41.8

I took some of my family members with me and I received not an honorary

0:46.4

degree. I received a medal. I'm Italian from Brown University which is my graduate

0:51.5

alma mater where I received my masters and my PhD about three decades

0:56.7

and two decades ago almost respectively.

1:00.0

And to go back there was very moving, bittersweet in some ways, mostly sweet, very little bitterness.

1:06.4

Got to bring my kids, my wife, and show them a part of my life that they had never really seen before because they didn't know me when I was a starving, slender, young, handsome graduate student.

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No, they only met me much later.

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And I couldn't help it, but as all graduate commencement address eers do, I guess I'm

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an address er or not address e. I decided I would wax philosophical about what it was like to go through the transitions that I have

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gone through since the time that I left the Van Winkle Gates and storied

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Providence, Rhode Island and some of it was recounted in previous visits there and in one of my books,

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but to actually be there viscerally amongst friends and graduates and other commencement speakers

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