Conversations with the scientists shaping how we understand reality.
I'm Brian Keating, experimental cosmologist at UC San Diego. My team builds telescopes at the South Pole & in the Atacama Desert to measure the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe.
On Into the Impossible, I interview Nobel laureates, working researchers, and the heretics they argue with. Past guests include Terry Tao, Roger Penrose, Kip Thorne, Frank Wilczek, Sam Harris, David Deutsch, Avi Loeb, Stephen Wolfram, Eric Weinstein, & Donald Hoffman.
You'll find long-form interviews on physics, cosmology, AI, & philosophy of mind. Solo episodes, lectures & explainers when a topic deserves more than a single conversation can hold.
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Dr Brian Keating
When a science headline or influencer says “everything we knew is wrong” — what’s your gut reaction? 🛰️
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Dr Brian Keating
Join me and Hugh today to debate God, fine-tuning and Alien and AI Life in the Cosmos
1 day ago | [YT] | 8
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Dr Brian Keating
Sam Harris says meditation can prove things about your mind, but nothing about the cosmos. Where do you land? Is meditation the "Large Hadron Collider of the Mind"?
3 days ago | [YT] | 25
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Neil deGrasse Tyson says precession + Ophiuchus mathematically killed astrology centuries ago. Where do you actually land? 🔭
1 week ago | [YT] | 17
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Is the multiverse science — or science fiction with equations? 🌌
1 week ago | [YT] | 36
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Dr Brian Keating
Tom Griffiths, one of the world's top neuroscientists, told me the brain doesn't generate consciousness — it receives it, like an antenna. What do you think?
1 week ago | [YT] | 54
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Joscha Bach says the self is a story your brain tells, not a thing that exists. Vote your honest gut.
1 week ago | [YT] | 57
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Is mainstream science actively filtering out its most radical ideas like UAP physics?
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 21
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Dr Brian Keating
Sam Harris says consciousness is the one thing in the universe that can't be an illusion; that is even more certain than physics. But free will? He says it's not just illusory. It's incoherent.
Which claim do you find harder to swallow?
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 38
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If we mapped every neuron in your brain perfectly and ran it as a simulation, would the simulation be you?
2 weeks ago | [YT] | 47
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