Brian Keating: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Aliens & Losing the Nobel Prize | Lex Fridman Podcast #257
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Published 2022-01-18
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EPISODE LINKS:
Brian's Twitter: twitter.com/DrBrianKeating
Brian's YouTube: youtube.com/c/DrBrianKeating
Books and resources mentioned:
Losing the Nobel Prize: amzn.to/3E6GSHI
Into the Impossible: amzn.to/3Fb6F2E
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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
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