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

Brian Keating is an experimental physicist at the UCSD, author of
Losing the Nobel Prize, and host of the Into the Impossible
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (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