Are Electrons Conscious? That’s the subject of today’s chat with Professor Philip Goff, author of “Galileo’s Error” Advice to graduates? Dear Impossible Family,🎓 It’s graduation season and I am pleased to announce that I’ll be speaking to a thousand bright, young graduates. Giving a commencement address is a fraught proposition: too vague/clichéd…

Our new audiobook version of Galileo Galilei’s Dialogue is finally ready for you to consume! The book clocks in (pun intended) at a whopping 21 hours of Galilean Glory read by 6 physicists total: me, Carlo Rovelli, Fabiola Gianotti, Frank Wilczek, Lucio Piccirillo and Sylvester James Gates, It took over…

Dear Impossible Family, Things sure have been stressful lately. Just when things on the COVID front looked promising, we move towards the threat of a nuclear confrontation between superpowers. Will we ever get a break or is it as I feared — 2022= 2020, too?? This week I posed the…

(Memory, Appearance, Genius, Image, Conversation) “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from MAGIC!” -Sir Arthur C. Clarke Please join my mailing list; http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php 📝 Dear Impossible Family, I got great feedback from dozens of you about your New Year’s resolutions — thanks so much! what’s your IMPOSSIBLE goal this…

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I recently discussed the challenges of exploring the early universe due to pollution…no, not smog… that’s for LA only :-) but what about in our galaxy at large? That’s the subject of this conversation with Lex Fridman Lex Fridman: You didn’t win the Nobel Prize. BICEP2’s leaders didn’t win…

I recently chatted with Lex Fridman about a dozen topics, including the existence of extraterrestrial life in the universe. Brian Keating: So what do you think would happen the next day? Let’s say we discover Life. Proxima Centauri B. It looks just like slime mold like you got on…

Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message (Memory, Appearance, Genius, Image, Conversation) “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from MAGIC!” Sir Arthur C. Clarke Dear Impossible Family, January is named after Janus the god of gates and portals, a time to look forward and also reflect. So at the end of last year, I…

This episode is sort of a ‘fan fiction’ conversation with a dead man who will cast a shadow over physics, philosophy, and theology for decades to come: Steven Weinberg, co-recipient of the 1979 Nobel Prize. Long before audio books and podcasts were a thing, in 1992 I took a Night…