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#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

Jan 18, 2022

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The Big Bang Theory

04:15

How Do You Prove That The Earth Is Round?

01:16

Introduction

1min

The New AG1Drink

4min

The Lexfeedman Podcast - Brian Keating

2min

The Gutenberg Bible and the OG Telescope

2min

What's Better Than Having a Time Machine?

3min

What Happened at the Beginning of Our Universe?

5min

The Big Bang Theory

4min

The Quasi-Standard Cosmic Cosmology

5min

Inflationary Cosmology

2min

10.

The Multiverse Is a Manifestation of Infinity, Right?

3min

11.

How to Represent a Floating Point in a Computer

2min

12.

What I Loved About the Soviet Union

2min

13.

Is It Good to Be a Scientist in a Soviet System?

2min

14.

The Nobel Prize and Science, You Know, Is a Kosher Idol

2min

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The Nobel Prize - The Story of Bicep, the Background Imaging of Cosmos, Extra Galactic Polarization

2min

16.

How Would You Distinguish Yourself if Not Practice?

4min

17.

The Hedgehog in the Fog

3min

18.

Is This a Gift?

3min

19.

The Pathway of a Scientist

3min

20.

The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics

2min

21.

What's the Most Important Day on the Calendar?

2min

22.

The Most Important Day of All Is the Beginning and the End

2min

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How Old Is the Universe?

2min

24.

The Universe Is Bigger Than It Is Older

2min

25.

Is the Universe Expanding?

2min

26.

What's Inside That Cubic Centimeter?

2min

27.

Is the Universe Expanding?

3min

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Is Inflation the Spark That Induced the Fusion of the Elements?

2min

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The Challenges of Detecting Polarization in the Universe

2min

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Bicep One - The Spark That Isn't Enough

3min

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How to Find Triangles in the Universe

3min

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How to Localize the Patches in the CMB?

4min

33.

The South Pole Is the Opposite of the Bear, Right?

3min

34.

Polarization Sensitive Telescope

2min

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I Could See Everything Two Ways, Right?

2min

36.

The CMB Could Win a Nobel Prize

2min

37.

I Can't Get Rid of a Three Kelvin Signal

2min

38.

The Most Important Reaction as a Scientist Is Not Eureka

2min

39.

Is This a Nobel Prize?

3min

40.

Bicep 2

5min

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Was Andrew the Source of Strength and Confidence for You as a Scientist?

2min

42.

A Scientist Takes His Own Life

2min

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Is Science an Infinite Game?

4min

44.

The Nobel Prize - The One Rule

2min

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The Nobel Prize

3min

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What Happened to Joe Rogan in Bicep 2?

5min

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I Want You to Be More Successful Than Me

4min

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The Denial of Death Featured in the Nobel Prize

2min

49.

The Denial of Death in Losing the Nobel Prize Book

2min

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I'm Not a Scientist, I'll Be a Teacher, You Know?

4min

51.

Are You Getting the Nobel Prize for Bicep 2?

6min

52.

Curiousness for Kids

2min

53.

Space Dust, Cosmology, and Cosmology

6min

54.

The First Thing That Formed, Is Iron?

3min

55.

Science Media Complex - If It Explodes, It Leads

2min

56.

The Transparency of Science

2min

57.

The Importance of Confirmation Bias

3min

58.

How to Prove That the Earth Goes Around the Sun

3min

59.

Galileo's Dialogue With Three People

5min

60.

What Is an Assayer?

5min

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Aren't We Applying Bayesian Rationality With Confidence Intervals?

3min

62.

I Love You and I Want to Protect You

2min

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Eric Weinstein's Theory of Everything

4min

64.

The Drug of Fame, a Source of Pleasure

4min

65.

How Do You Know if You're Doing a Good Podcast?

4min

66.

Is There a Track Record of Expertise?

2min

67.

The Proven Expertise Is Not Yet Proven

5min

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How to Build Consciousness

3min

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The God Particle, the God Equation

2min

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I Love Sabina and I Love Her, but I Don't Want to Understand It, I Dont Have Time

2min

71.

Let Go of the Fear of Your Ideas Being Stolen and the Ego

2min

72.

How to Survive for the Next 40 Years

4min

73.

Low Energy - Is Dark Energy a Constant or a Variable?

2min

74.

The Hubble Ultra Deep Field

4min

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Space Explosion - What Science Engineers Can Do in Space

3min

76.

What's Pan-Spermia?

2min

77.

The Origin of Life on Earth

4min

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What's the Probability of a Human-Like Being?

3min

79.

The Origins of the Universe

2min

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I Don't Think You're Going to Get Meaning From Mars, Right?

2min

81.

Is There a Higher Probability That Life Exists Than Technology Exists?

2min

82.

What's at the Beginning?

3min

83.

You Can Never Be Happy, You Can Only Become Happy

5min

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Are You Using Yourself as the Source of Meaning?

3min

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Are You Self Critical? Is That a Good Thing?

4min

Brian Keating is an experimental physicist at the UCSD, author of Losing the Nobel Prize, and host of the Into the Impossible podcast. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Brian’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating
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Books and resources mentioned:
Losing the Nobel Prize: https://amzn.to/3E6GSHI
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(06:46) – Telescope
(12:10) – Beginning of the universe
(32:23) – Science and the Soviet Union
(37:49) – What it’s like to be a scientist
(56:45) – Age of the universe
(59:37) – Expansion of the universe
(1:07:37) – Gravitational waves
(1:10:49) – BICEP
(1:36:05) – Nobel prize
(1:59:06) – Joe Rogan
(2:06:21) – Recognition in science
(2:14:30) – Curiosity
(2:22:18) – Losing the Nobel Prize
(2:35:13) – Galileo Galilei
(2:54:00) – Eric Weinstein
(3:12:21) – Scientific community
(3:30:02) – James Webb telescope
(3:35:01) – Panspermia
(3:38:32) – Origin of life
(3:43:59) – Aliens
(3:49:41) – Death and purpose
(3:53:53) – God
(3:59:49) – Power

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Lex Fridman Podcast

#257 – Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize

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