Brian Keating: I’m Spending $200 Million to Explore Existence! How God Fits into Science Explained! (Video)
In this 2 December 2024 video, host Steven Bartlett talks with Professor Brian Keating, a cosmologist and experimental physicist at the University of California San Diego. He is the host of the ‘Into the Impossible’ podcast and author of the books, ‘Losing The Nobel Prize’ and ‘Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner’.
Keating became a professor at UC San Diego in 2014. He became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2016. In 2019 he became the Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego, in the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences, which is part of the Department of Physics. Keating received an Excellence in Stewardship Award in 2018/19, and is an honorary member of the National Society of Black Physicists. He is co-director of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination at UC San Diego. He received the Horace Mann Medal from Brown University Graduate School in 2022.
https://youtu.be/LiIs5X56JMI
00:00 Intro
00:02:04 What Mission Are You On?
00:02:57 Most Controversial Questions You’ve Set Out To Answer
00:05:33 How Does God Tie Into The Creation Of The Universe Through A Scientific Lens?
00:08:15 $200 Million Dollar Project: Insights And Updates
00:11:34 Meteor And The 4-Billion-Year-Old Commitment
00:15:27 Capturing The Origin Of The Universe
00:19:03 What Do You Suspect Is The Origin Of The Universe?
00:21:35 What Is The Most Compelling Evidence Of A God?
00:30:41 Practices To Move Away From Atheism
00:38:57 Are We Searching For The Wrong Thing When It Comes To God?
00:41:19 If I Pray To This God, Will They Hear Me?
00:49:30 How Would Your Life Change If It Were Proven God Wasn’t Real?
00:53:37 What Is The Simulation Theory?
01:02:31 Do Aliens Exist?
01:17:34 What Is The Probability That We’re Alone In The Universe?
01:24:20 Ads Segment
01:26:14 Star Signs And Horoscopes: What Do They Really Mean?
01:28:34 How Is Astrology Different From Religion?
01:30:50 What Is The Meaning Of Life?
01:33:26 What Was The Meaning Of Your Life Before Having Kids?
01:35:02 Why Do The Greats Often Feel Like Imposters?
01:40:56 The Importance Of Always Experimenting
01:41:52 Would You Trade Fame And Privacy For Something Else?
01:44:08 The Last Guest’s Question