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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How Do You Prove That The Earth Is Round?

Most of my students, graduate students, can prove that the earth is round or explain how the earth it is actually not trivial to do. In fact, that's extremely hard to prove. And and almost none of my students,. even after they get their ph d, on the final exam, i kind of like to justia give them a little bit of humility," he said.

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