Into the Impossible (Brian Keating)
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Into the Impossible (Brian Keating)

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Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all. If you’ve…

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Meta NeuroScientist SHOCKED Me: Scale Alone Won’t Create Consciousness!

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57:32

What's The Real Value of Your Degree? Aswath Damodaran

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1:11:32

Will AI Replace Scientists?

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41:26

Nick Lane: The Engine That Built Life

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1:14:48

John C. Lennox: Has AI Become God? The Ultimate THREAT of Artificial Intelligence

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1:27:25

Can You Find God in the Laws of Physics? This is World!

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40:09

The Taboo Topic Sam Harris Won't Touch

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33:42

Nikolay Kukushkin: Slugs Have Memories

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1:21:47

Sam Arbesman: "The World is Made of Code"

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1:15:49

The Mysterious Math Behind LLMs | Anil Ananthaswamy

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1:10:56

Is the Universe Random or Deterministic, or Neither? (ft. Andrew Jaffe)

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1:11:36

Max Tegmark vs. Eric Weinstein: AI, Aliens, Theories, & New Year’s Resolutions! (Repost from 2021)

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2:31:49

Can AI help us solve the hardest problems in Mathematics? (ft. Terry Tao)

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1:16:45

Physicists Missed These Particle Tracks for Decades (ft. Daniel Whiteson)

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49:30

Brian Keating’s Journey: Nobel Dreams and Cosmic Questions | Cheltenham and UK Philosophers

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1:13:04

Avi Loeb: What Is 3I/ATLAS?

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1:17:33

Did You Know This Genius Changed Physics Forever?

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16:31

Will It Happen Again? Comets and Asteroids Extinction with Govert Schilling

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53:05

The Next Phase of Human Evolution (ft. Bret Weinstein)

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1:28:54

What Really Happened In Antarctica? Julian Dorey x Brian Keating

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1:26:12

I Went From Stonehenge to the SKA: 5,000 Years of Cosmic Curiosity In 45 minutes

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48:53

Jaron Lanier: VR Will Expand Human Consciousness

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1:53:03

AI That Helps, Schools That Don't, and How Not to Go Crazy on The James Altucher Show

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1:04:26

Terry Tao: “Trump CUT My Funding.” Here's how I am going to react.

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16:11

Avi Loeb Fights Back: Response to Brian Cox & the 3I/ATLAS Critics

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1:50:06

How to Talk to Aliens (ft. Daniel Whiteson)

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1:07:18

Physicist ‪Explains UFOs, the Moon Landing, and the Case for God's Existence | Real Talk with Marissa Streit

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1:19:23

Was The Moon Landing A HOAX? (ft. Kim Kardashian, Candace Owens, & Bart Sibrel)

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32:19

Avi Loeb's WARNING: Watch Out for THIS When 3i/ATLAS Nears The Sun!

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1:37:46

90% of Ancient Humans Vanished. We Reconstructed Their History (ft. David Reich)

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1:16:41

Could Biological Robots Heal Us from the Inside? | Michael Levin

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51:14

Did We Detect Dark Matter… or Fool Ourselves?

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40:55

Will this NEW Scientific Breakthrough Make Us Immune to Everything? | George Church

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1:12:52

Does Avi Loeb Have PROOF of Alien Technology?

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1:02:22

Brian Keating on Humility, Chutzpah, and the Arrow of Time | The James Altucher Show

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16:42

Chris Hadfield’s Final Orbit! The Moon Landing Hoax, UAPs, China & the New Space Race

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50:19

From Pipe Bombs to Viagra: Nobel Prize Winner’s Secrets Revealed

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53:33

EXCLUSIVE: Avi Loeb Reveals: What HiRISE Just Saw on Mars!

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1:56:52

Is AI Our PARTNER or Our ENEMY? Google CTO Blaise Agüera y Arcas

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1:12:39

The Scientists: Lord Kelvin’s Dangerous Idea (Absolute Zero)

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20:48

Steven Pinker on Cancel Culture, Common Knowledge & AI

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50:59

What Really Happened on the Moon?

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1:28:45

How to Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner | The James Altucher Show

James sits down once again with cosmologist Brian Keating—longtime friend of the show and author of Into the…

1:12:12

Are We Wrong About the Big Bang? Niayesh Afshordi

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Ep. 513·

The Matrix Is a Documentary: Riz Virk on the Simulation Hypothesis

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1:15:14

The Man Who Named the Big Bang… and Hated It! Fred Hoyle

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48:46

David Deutsch Says We Will Build Humans Before We Build AGI

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32:54

Is 3I/ATLAS Alien Technolgy? Avi Loeb & MIchael Shermer DEBATE

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1:38:16

Thomas Hertog: What Came Before The Big Bang?

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54:23

Ben Shapiro: Free Will, AGI, and the Scavengers Ruining America's Future

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1:03:33

The Computer Expert That Just Solved AI’s TOUGHEST Challenge (ft. Rose Yu)

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