
A Look Back on 2022 in Science With Brian Keating and Special Guest Eric Weinstein (#286)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
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Christmas Conversions
Jay Badacharya: A lot of things do seem to happen on Christmas and related to Christmas. He says he was actually a Jewish altar boy in the Catholic Church back in his teenage years. And Galileo ended his life in prison because of an injunction by the Catholic Church to never teach Copernican, or the Copernican arrangement of our solar system.Badacharya: In Galileo's defense of opposition presented first by Copernicus of the Earth-centered universe, Leo was transgressing against a powerful figure in Christendom.
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