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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Summary
 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 ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity. Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast© 2025 Big Bang Productions Inc. 719843 Natural History Nature & Ecology Physics Science
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  • Physics Professor: How Much Power Does a UFO Really Need?

    Physics Professor: How Much Power Does a UFO Really Need?
    Nov 11 2026
    Most UAP probably aren’t alien spacecraft. A physics professor says so himself, and in these slides one UFO photo turns out to be a seagull while a colleague’s analysis of crash debris found more Earth dirt than he expected. Subscribe if you want science with evidence, not speculation. I sit down with Kevin Knuth, a physics professor at the University at Albany, who walks me through his slides on one question, how anomalous is anomalous when it comes to UAP. He answers it with energy and power, because some sightings leave enough data to work out how much power a UAP would need. I push back on whether every sensor is giving a true signal, not an artifact or a hallucination, and the debate carries over to my podcast conversation with Kevin. What you’ll hear: A radar return that is also visible puts a bound on the dielectric constants. Systematic error can’t be estimated without knowing the true value, so the acceleration comes out as a probability distribution. At 99.9% efficiency, a craft drawing 1,000 gigawatts would still shed about a gigawatt as waste heat. The night NASA put an astrophysicist on climate science, the book he bought was a kids’ book on clouds. “I’m asking the question, how anomalous is anomalous when it comes to UAP?” Kevin Knuth CHAPTERS 00:00 1,100 gigawatts and 10,000 Gs 04:24 Oberth and the 1954 radar claim 06:54 The Nimitz drop and a 5,400 G estimate 13:40 The Japan Airlines case of 1986 23:22 What 1,000 Gs would mean for interstellar travel 25:22 The time dilation catch: four days for you, 80 years on Earth 26:32 Transmedium travel and underwater objects 36:36 How bright can a UFO be? 41:30 UFOs in trouble: Ubatuba and Council Bluffs 42:18 New engineering or new physics? Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt Have a .edu email and live in the USA? You automatically win a meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/edu Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 Support Into the Impossible on Patreon, get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster at the end of every episode: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Featured Guest: Kevin Knuth on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kknuth/ Kevin Knuth on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06794 Kevin Knuth at the University at Albany (Scholars Archive): https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/physics_fac_scholar/58/ My books: Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://urlgeni.us/amzn/TLANPW Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9U Galileo’s Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un Twitter/X: https://x.com/BrianKeating Substack: https://briankeating.substack.com Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast Links above marked to Amazon may earn a commission for the channel at no cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. #UFO #UAP #physics #Nimitz #briankeating #intotheimpossible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    45 mins
  • Princeton Mathematician: Wormholes Can’t Survive Einstein’s Math

    Princeton Mathematician: Wormholes Can’t Survive Einstein’s Math
    Nov 3 2026
    A Princeton mathematician says wormholes cannot survive Einstein's equations, and the AI apocalypse is absurd. A solution that vanishes under a small nudge is a ghost, not physics. Sergiu Klainerman is a mathematician at Princeton University. With Demetrios Christodoulou, he proved that empty spacetime is stable. We cover: What makes a solution of Einstein's equations physical, why slowly rotating black holes pass the stability test and wormholes fail it, why shocks form no matter how small the perturbation, whether AI can reproduce a landmark proof, and why he calls the AI singularity absurd. Mathematics is discovered, not invented. CHAPTERS 00:00 Are wormholes real? 08:38 What happens at an event horizon 12:06 God does not know about coordinates 17:32 What Maldacena would say about wormholes 21:48 Why extremal black holes matter 28:56 Einstein and the 1919 eclipse 33:52 Terry Tao and Fermat's Last Theorem 43:04 Can universities be reformed? 48:16 What to tell a 19-year-old 50:48 Kip Thorne and the movies Support the show and get the full transcript, bonus content and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt Have a .edu email and live in the USA? You automatically win a meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/edu Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 Follow on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3vpfXok Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/39UaHlB Support Into the Impossible on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours and your name in the Member Roster: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Sponsored by me. My three books: Losing the Nobel Prize http://amzn.to/2sa5UpA Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner https://a.co/d/03ezQFu Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner https://a.co/d/hi50U9U Amazon affiliate disclosure: links above marked to Amazon may earn a commission for the channel at no cost to you. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. X: https://x.com/BrianKeating Substack: https://briankeating.substack.com Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast #blackhole #generalrelativity #wormhole #Einstein #briankeating #intotheimpossible Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    56 mins
  • Are We in a SIMULATION? | Brian Keating on the Arora Podcast

    Are We in a SIMULATION? | Brian Keating on the Arora Podcast
    Nov 1 2026
    The Arora Show with Brian Keating What happens when science reaches the edge of what it can explain? In this episode of The Arora Show, Amira & Aryaan sit down with renowned cosmologist and physicist Professor Brian Keating for a fascinating conversation about the universe, consciousness, God, the Big Bang, and some of the biggest questions humans can ask. We explore the origins of the universe, whether there was truly a “beginning,” what existed before the Big Bang, the mysteries science still cannot solve, and where physics, philosophy, and spirituality collide. Brian also shares his perspective on the search for extraterrestrial life, the limits of human knowledge, Nobel Prizes, modern cosmology, and what decades of studying the universe have taught him about our place within it. In this conversation: What happened before the Big Bang? Did the universe come from nothing? Does physics leave room for God? Can science explain consciousness? Are we likely alone in the universe? What are the biggest unanswered questions in cosmology? Where does scientific knowledge reach its limits? What does the future of physics look like? Professor Brian Keating is an experimental cosmologist and professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. His work focuses on understanding the origin and evolution of the universe, and he is the author of Losing the Nobel Prize and Into the Impossible. Subscribe to The Arora Show for long-form conversations exploring consciousness, science, spirituality, psychology, philosophy, and the nature of reality. Hosted by Amira Arora & Aryaan Arora TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 - Introduction: The Big Bang, God & Simulation Theory 02:25 - Dr. Brian Keating's $200 Million Experiment to Understand the Big Bang 06:20 - Why Are Humans Obsessed With the Origin of the Universe? 09:20 - How Telescopes Reveal the Beginning of the Universe 16:04 - Is Interstellar Scientifically Accurate? Black Holes & Time Travel 20:45 - Are There Questions Science Can Never Answer? 23:01 - What Happened Before the Big Bang? 27:37 - What Is Time? Stephen Hawking's Theory Explained 30:42 - Is Reality a Simulation? Consciousness & Donald Hoffman 35:13 - Could Advanced AI Simulate Our Entire Reality? 42:49 - Does God Exist? The Fine-Tuning Argument 50:00 - Science, Religion & the Existence of God 1:04:00 - Why Does God Allow Suffering and Evil? 1:10:00 - Artificial Intelligence, Human Creativity & Consciousness 1:15:00 - Can Physics Explain the Mind of God? 1:18:27 - Do Humans Really Have Free Will? 1:24:55 - The Hard Problem of Consciousness Explained 1:27:43 - Why Does Anything Exist Instead of Nothing? 1:29:55 - Can Science Prove Simulation Theory? 1:34:45 - Death, Mortality & the Meaning of Life 1:39:25 - What If Scientists Discovered Alien Life? 1:45:06 - Brian Keating on the Nobel Prize & Academia 1:46:35 - Facing Death and Saying Goodbye to Loved Ones 1:48:10 - Final Thoughts #BrianKeating #TheAroraShow #Cosmology #Physics #BigBang #Consciousness #Science #Universe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 55 mins
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Greatest guests, Great topics. Thoughtful discussions with guests at the top of their fields. For listeners who crave pioneering into subjects that extend to the edges of what humanity knows, this is the podcast for you. Thanks Brian!

Great Guests, great topics

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I've just started listening to Brian Keating's podcasts and I know I'm going to binge them. So entertaining, and so thought provoking, and so clear. I hesitated to listen to the September 6 with Steven Koonin since I thought, no way am I going to spend time with a climate change denier. I'm glad I trusted Brian though and gave him a chance. The podcast may not have changed my mind but the time spent hearing the science, the statistical model, and Brian's careful and respectful presentation was a total pleasure. Very highly recommended!

Great Podcast!

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Even if you're not an expert of the cosmos (like me) this podcast is very easy to digest and super interesting. The big question of "How did the universe begin?" is not an easy one to answer, but it's a super cool topic to dive into. Dr. Keating takes you on a journey with other scientists to tackle this question and other intriguing phenomena throughout time and space. I love these deep dives and even if we never really find out how it all began I'll keep going into the impossible to learn more about our universe.

Highly recommend!

Insightful & An Awesome Listen For Anyone

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I have been binging this podcast recently, here and on other platforms. There have been many great episodes but the ones with Shep Doeleman, Heino falcke, Rai Weiss and Barry Barish really resonated with me for both the depth of the technical discussion, passion and interest from both the guests and Dr. Kearting, and the unguarded nature with which they answered the more personal questions.

Going through the history of the podcasts, I think Dr. Keating has grown as an interviewer becoming stronger in the follow-up to guest responses and striking a good balance in the science topics explored. Not to say early episodes were weak. For me, the content of the episodes and passion of the discussions are the main appeal, and those stood out for their excellence right from the beginning.

I would like to thank Dr. Keating for putting these out there. I hope you are able to continue for as long as people keep doing science,

Fascinating and often inspiring

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The personalities of each guest quite down to earth in their human discussions of esoteric concepts.
The thought process fascinating.
Have recommended highly to everyone!

Content Accessible and Enjoyable

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