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Lex Fridman PodcastBrian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize | Lex Fridman Podcast #257
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- Released
- January 18, 2022
- Duration
- 3h 59m
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- Lex Fridman Podcast
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
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 Brian's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrBrianKeating Books and resources mentioned: Losing the Nobel Prize: https://amzn.to/3E6GSHI Into the Impossible: https://amzn.to/3Fb6F2E PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 0:27 - Telescope 5:51 - Beginning of the universe 26:04 - Science and the Soviet Union 31:30 - What it's like to be a scientist 50:26 - Age of the universe 53:17 - Expansion of the universe 1:01:18 - Gravitational waves 1:04:30 - BICEP 1:29:45 - Nobel prize 1:52:47 - Joe Rogan 2:00:02 - Recognition in science 2:08:11 - Curiosity 2:15:59 - Losing the Nobel Prize 2:28:53 - Galileo Galilei 2:47:41 - Eric Weinstein 3:06:01 - Scientific community 3:23:42 - James Webb telescope 3:28:42 - Panspermia 3:32:12 - Origin of life 3:37:40 - Aliens 3:43:22 - Death and purpose 3:47:34 - God 3:53:30 - Power SOCIAL:
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SPEAKERS
Lex Fridman
hostBrian Keating
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EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, featuring Lex Fridman and Brian Keating, Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize | Lex Fridman Podcast #257 explores Brian Keating on telescopes, cosmic origins, Nobel dreams, and doubt Brian Keating, an experimental cosmologist, discusses the power of telescopes as time machines, explaining how instruments like radio and microwave telescopes allow us to measure the early universe and test theories such as cosmic inflation and the Big Bang.
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