Freeman Dyson | Brian Keating’s INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast

For that last four years of his life, Freeman Dyson would spend winters in La Jolla, and work alongside physicists at UC San Diego (as well as the super-secret scientific advisory group known as the JASONS). This video was from my last conversation with Freeman at UC San Diego in 2018.

Freeman Dyson was Professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study. Mathematician, physicist, philosopher and iconoclast Freeman Dyson was one of the most influential, far-reaching and unconstrained minds of our age. His explorations -- ranging from fusion power to star-encapsulating energy collectors called 'Dyson Spheres' -- stimulated thinkers around the globe. Boldly speculating ahead trillions of years, Dyson has been called the top theologian of the 20th century. Always unabashed, he has raised controversy from all ends of the political spectrum with unusual ideas about climate change.

Dyson came to Cornell University as a graduate student in 1947 and worked with Hans Bethe and Richard Feynman, producing a user-friendly way to calculate the behavior of atoms and radiation. Though he never formally received his PhD, Dyson's work was incredibly influential and diverse. He worked on fields ranging from nuclear reactors, to solid-state physics, to ferromagnetism, astrophysics, and biology, looking for situations where elegant mathematics could be usefully applied. Dyson’s books include Disturbing the Universe, Origins of Life, The Scientist as Rebel, and most recently. Dyson was a fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London. In 2000, he was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.

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[nyrdybyrd]

THIS will be a treasured pleasure; thousands of thanks, Dr. Keating.

[MichaelSmithfu]

So so good. He is still so sharp and very interesting to listen to.

[ahmedbensebti]

Beside Freeman Dyson were a great scientist and a great writer he is also a charmant personnality i enjoyed the discussion thank you Dr Keating.

[nunomaroco]

Hi, one great mind of our era, all the

[nowhereman]

Mr. Dyson view of religion is spot on!

[vanessa]

He was very modest. I hope he understood that all those younger and ‘smarter’ folk weren’t necessarily thus; they just happened to have the best possible perspective at the time. Great interview.

[knight]

Yo! You contacted the afterlife!!! Way to go...

[stuartvolkow]

3 years later and I'm still catching up on the work mentioned in this episode!

[danilo_]

He was 94 years. His brain was definitely gifted

[Kenneth-tsbp]

There was a time when people could think critically instead of being told what to think.

[aatu]

I am stupid so I hope I can ask a question. When we use telescopes to peer in the past, like Webb does, I don't understand why that actually works. So big bang happened, time started flowing, particles that make us and our galaxy were thrown in a direction with huge speeds. Another amount of particles that form a galaxy thrown in a direction with a huge speed as well. Assuming everything moved slower than light, now we are looking in the direction of that other galaxy, how do we see in the past if it has not been moving away from us near the speed of light? Like when I have a baseball in my hand and throw the other baseball in my other hand near lightspeed and take a picture or video of the baseball still in my hand, looks like time stands nearly still. So don't we need to moving at huge speeds when peering back in time with pictures? How can we see so far back in time without these speeds? I feel so stupid.

[gariusjarfar]

The function of waves, carrying sub waves, some surf the waves, some dive under. In the end we all surf the wave function. Sometimes it's a solid, sometimes it's not. Consciousness determines this playground. Here we are on planet earth, 80 percent ( confined ) to the playground of sport activities. It's a pity.

[PubDocLeaks]

All entropy comes from an all powerful source. There is currently no evidence for reverse entropy. This is convicing evidence for Deism, along with similarites between self similarity and Imago Dei.

[recramorcenlemniscate]

Natural Dyson Sphere's are possible

[monozon]

There needs to be a distinction between the average person's idea of religion and religious fundamentalism. Most scientists who are religious are most certainly not fundamentalists. Valuing community is completely different from pushing bull-crap that can never be proven. I just can't understand how a scientist can sit in front of a preacher who is obviously spewing nonsense and nod their head in agreement. If you know there is very little evidence for string theory, why bother agreeing that there is?

[tomholroyd]

Getting rid of mathematical nonsense

It's a good phrase. Like getting rid of binary logic. Take your blinders off