(RECORDED LIVE ONSTAGE) Lawrence Krauss & Brian Keating Discuss Latest Science & Edge Of Knowledge

In 2023, the Origins Project Foundation hosted an event featuring a live onstage dialogue between renowned astrophysicist Brian Keating and acclaimed Theoretical Physicist Lawrence M. Krauss at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego. This live, non-profit event was a part of a series of public events in California, named our "Nights At The Museum".

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A message from Lawrence:
In mid-October, the Origins Project Foundation ran two public events in California. The second event was held at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego. I had asked my colleague Brian Keating, who teaches at UCSD and is a Trustee of that museum, whether he might be interested in doing a public dialogue together that we could later both broadcast on our respective podcasts. He and I have each appeared before on each other’s podcasts, and I knew that we could have the kind of comfortable, informative, and fun conversation that might appeal to a live audience, which would make for a different kind of podcast.

I am happy to present here the video record of that live-audience podcast, and the Q&A with the audience that was recorded right after it. Brian and I discussed many things, from forefront cosmology, to the nature of teaching and doing research, as viewed by an experimentalist and a theorist respectively, as well as broader questions associated with science in society today. The questions afterwards were equally interesting. I hope you enjoy both as you listen to or watch the podcast.
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About The Speakers:

Brian Keating is a Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. Keating is a writer and podcaster and the best-selling author of one of Amazon Editors’ ‘Best Non-fiction Books of All Time”, Losing the Nobel Prize.

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Lawrence Krauss is an internationally known theoretical physicist and bestselling author. He is currently President of The Origins Project Foundation, and host of The Origins Podcast. His wide research interests have focused on the interface between elementary particle physics and cosmology, including the origin and evolution of the Universe and the fundamental structure of matter. Among his numerous important scientific contributions was the proposal, in 1995, that most of the energy of the Universe resided in empty space. Lawrence Krauss has held endowed professorships at numerous universities and most recently served as Director of Arizona State University’s Origins Project, and Foundation Professor for a decade from 2008-2018, and also as Chair of the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists from 2006-2018. He has written over 600 publications and 12 popular books, including the international best-sellers, The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing. His latest book, The Edge of Knowledge, was released in May 2023. Krauss has written for magazines and newspapers including, to name just a few, The New York Times, The Wall St. Journal, The Globe and Mail, The National Post, and the New Yorker, and appears regularly on radio, television and most recently in several feature films. Among his numerous awards are included the three major awards from all 3 US physics societies and the 2012 Public Service Award from the National Science Board for his contributions to the public understanding of science.

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[KaiserSoze]

Trying to sleep. This will not help 😊. Who needs sleep anyway. ❤

[pinocleen]

Double guest experiment, the duality of a theorist and an experimentalist!
Great show you two.

[ansfridaeyowulfsdottir]

Good Grief, this host is an absolute arse. Almost too irritating to listen to, despite Krauss doing most of the talking.

{:o:O:}

[walternullifidian]

It wasn't Galileo and Maxwell who were at odds, it was Newton and Maxwell who were at odds. Einstein realized this and decided that it was Newton that was wrong.

[robtierney]

I had a heck of question or two. Given there is an increasing opinion in the scientific community that the "multiverse" might actually exist. What's the thoughts on this. Is it really fair to refer to it as a multiverse, versus just saying "The universe that is just larger than originally believed?" Or is it a multiverse because somehow they have no influence on each other due to distances? But would these universes actually be bridged by a continuous quantum realm? So, they do in a way influence each other? Is there a quantum realm that has different rules per pocket universe? Ok, I need to put these brownies down.

[kennethadkins]

Or sorry Mr. Krause could you or anyone explain to me if the experiments like quantum eraser or any other they used to try to figure out about the dual particle wave duality of electrons and photons used uv light frequency, the smallest light wave or electron microscope to measure the (particle) before and after it goes through the slit.? A wave smaller than what you shoot through to try to see it.???? But other than that just bc it looks point like to us doesn't mean that if we had much better eyesight, detectors to see it for what it really is we would see the wave. Just like we call it a point but where its so small it could be a sphere but we can't detect it in our dimension. As well as we say it doesn't spin but call angular moment spin, maybe they do spin especially bc they have angular momentum we just can't see

[SinthiaVicious]

I think it's interesting that forty percent of Americans are of German descent but since the world wars we don't have German beer halls and social clubs like we used to so outside of "Pennsylvania Dutch" country you rarely see any sign of German people and culture.

[may_it_please_the_court]

Watching Lawrence Krauss on the Julian Dorey Podcast was like observing a well seasoned physicist talk gravity, cosmology, evolution to a third grader who sat there scratching his head all the way through that podcast. He could have asked another physicist on the show to make it more interesting by having him moderate the whole thing. It was hilarious to watch.

[Puppies-zh]

I'm very grateful to get to hear you (and of course the guests on your channel and other speakers at events such as this one) speak at length on various topics free of charge, Lawrence. Thank you very much. I hope you have a wonderful day.

[shanetudorlopez]

Shouldn't talk about what you don't know there's a lot of history sitting in the modern stadium and goes back thousands and thousands of years

[kadecriddle]

Lawrence, is it chilly where you live? :)

[TempleElaine-zl]

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[readyfireaim]

in·fin·i·ty
MATHEMATICS

a number greater than any assignable quantity or countable number (symbol ∞).

What is the meaning of zero in Webster's dictionary?

a. : the arithmetical symbol 0 or 0̸ denoting the absence of all magnitude or quantity.

b. : additive identity. specifically : the number between the set of all negative numbers and the set of all positive numbers.

Zero is the most important number in mathematics and is both a real and an imaginary number with a horizon through it.

Zero-dimensional space is the most important dimension in physics and is both a real and an imaginary dimension with an event horizon through it.

[readyfireaim]

Materialism/Empiricism says that Einstein's 3 + 1 space-time is locally real...but quantum physics proved the observable universe (1D, 2D, 3D and 4D) is actually not locally real a year ago.

Is anyone still a Materialist/Empiricist and can i ask why?

I've been studying Leibniz since he got zero vs nonzero numbers correct.

[kennethadkins]

Mr. Keating since you are an experimentalist could you or someone explain to me if the experiments like quantum eraser or any other they used to try to figure out about the dual particle wave duality of electrons and photons used uv light frequency, the smallest light wave or electron microscope to measure the (particle) before and after it goes through the slit.? A wave smaller than what you shoot through to try to see it.???? But other than that just bc it looks point like to us doesn't mean that if we had much better eyesight, detectors to see it for what it really is we would see the wave. Just like we call it a point but where its so small it could be a sphere but we can't detect it in our dimension. As well as we say it doesn't spin but call angular moment spin, maybe they do spin especially bc they have angular momentum we just can't see

[carolspencer]

Good morning Lawrence and Brian
Again grateful for your continued Science Sensemaking.
The skill's of COMMUNICATION, goes without saying really, are clearly super necessary.😀
Also feel/know my very own dynamic skills of communication are reason for my Non-Science thinking nurse leadership team to continue, attempt to disconnect my good wee self from my work. Story short!
However also know after eighteen years of mental health nursing every patient interaction I've had has been successfully built by the building blocks of COMMUNICATION.
And all accumulated observations, experiences and SCIENCE based knowledge . Etc
Patients DO NOT want the same crazy results the leadership team so crave!
Madness right now!🙃
Thankyou for you both.
Sanity brain gym indeed.
💜

[neIntangible]

This is better the second time around... I've already watched this on Brian Keating's "Into the Impossible" podcast channel last week... either that or I'm a time traveler, caught inside a time warp bubble, traversing from a parallel universe, Into the Unknown deja-vu matrix.

[WilhelmGuggisberg]

Thank you for your very detailed insights and explanations! You have a great talent for conveying information despite you are not a native English speaker. By the way, you are so cute!

[collegephysicsforeveryone]

A relativistic change could not possibly happen over a gradual reference frame. It either happens or doesn't. This would be the mass-energy barrier that exists at the event horizon of a blackhole or the surface of a pupil. Love you all!!

[collegephysicsforeveryone]

Math is a measurement of distance which makes no sense when we talk about light and time in the same context. According to Einstein when we talk about anything we are talking about light and time in the same context. The beauty is in the ability to imagine the way reality truly works.