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Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Think like a physicist. Wonder like a human. Into the Impossible is where Cosmic Conversations happen — uniting Nobel Prize winners, iconoclasts, authors, and technologists to explore reality’s deepest questions. From AI to aliens, from biophysics to the brain, from the cosmos to the multiverse, Brian Keating, Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego covers it all. If you’ve ever asked What’s out there? or What’s next?, this is where curiosity meets clarity. Learn to think like this. 🎙 Full episodes, notes & more: briankeating.com/podcast

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Every guest on Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

334 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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    Mick West

    Mick West: Are UFO's here? (#154) · Jun 2021

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    Peter Schiff

    Peter Schiff: BITCOIN BUBBLE! (#121) · Feb 2021

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    Zach Weinersmith

    What Elon Musk Isn't Telling You About Colonizing Mars w/ Zach Weinersmith [Ep. 434] · Jun 2024

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    Adam Becker

    The Quantum Secret Einstein Tried to Warn Us About - Adam Becker - #508 · 2 episodes

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    Andrew Jaffe

    Is the Universe Random or Deterministic, or Neither? Andrew Jaffe - #536 · Jan 2026

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    Andrew Pontzen

    Is the Universe a Simulation? Andrew Pontzen [Ep. 466] · Nov 2024

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    Anil Ananthaswamy

    The Mysterious Math Behind LLMs - Anil Ananthaswamy - #537 · Jan 2026

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    Anthony Aguirre

    Anthony Aguirre: Cosmological Koans (#184) · Sep 2021

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    Arik Kershenbaum

    If Darwin Had A Spaceship | Arik Kershenbaum: The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy (#222) · Apr 2022

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    Chiara Mingarelli

    Chiara Mingarelli: Hints of the Gravitational Wave Background from NANOGRAV! (#123) · Mar 2021

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    Claudia de Rham

    Did This NEW Theory of Gravity Solve the Expanding Universe? Claudia de Rham [Ep. 419] · May 2024

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    Curt Jaimungal

    Will We Ever Find a Theory of Everything? Brian Keating & Curt Jaimungal · Sep 2024

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    Daniel Whiteson

    Physicists Missed These Particle Tracks for Decades (ft. Daniel Whiteson) · 2 episodes

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    David Albert

    David Albert: Einstein Was Right About Quantum Mechanics! [Ep. 433] · Jun 2024

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    Jeremy England

    Jeremy England: Life is on FIRE🔥 🧬🔥 (#189) · Oct 2021

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    John Skrentny

    The MASSIVE STEM Graduate Exodus - What’s Going Wrong? | John Skrentny · Aug 2024

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    Laurence Tribe

    Laurence Tribe: The Physics of IMPEACHMENT & The Curvature of Constitutional Space (#116) · Feb 2021

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    Leonard Susskind

    Leonard Susskind: What REALLY Happens Inside a Black Hole? (#364) · 2 episodes

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    Marc Kamionkowski

    Marc Kamionkowski: Crises In Cosmology (#312) · Apr 2023

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    Matt Strassler

    What Is The Higgs Field? Matt Strassler [Ep. 460] · Sep 2024

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    Michael Wong

    There's a New Law of Nature — And It Changes Everything We Know About Life. Michael Wong - #546 · Mar 2026

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    Niayesh Afshordi

    Are We Wrong About the Big Bang? Niayesh Afshordi - #517 · Sep 2025

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    Nicole Yunger Halpern

    Quantum Thermodynamics: A Steampunk Adventure with Nicole Yunger Halpern (#225) · Apr 2022

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    Peter McCormack

    The Universe Didn’t Come From Nothing | The Peter McCormack Show · Aug 2026

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    Spencer Klavan

    Galileo: The Elon Musk of the Renaissance? | Dr. Brian Keating on Young Heretics with Spencer Klavan · 2 episodes

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    Stephen Meyer

    Does Dr. Stephen C. Meyer Have Evidence for Intelligent Design? (#345) · 2 episodes

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    Steven Koonin

    Steven Koonin: Stop POLITICIZING Climate Science! (#344) · Sep 2023

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    Thomas Hertog

    What Came Before The Big Bang? Thomas Hertog - #513 · Sep 2025

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    Tom Griffiths

    Princeton Scientist: We Don't Understand AI - Tom Griffiths - #553 · Apr 2026

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    Bart Sibrel

    Was The Moon Landing A HOAX? (ft. Kim Kardashian, Candace Owens, & Bart Sibrel) · Nov 2025

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    Neil Degrasse Tyson

    Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going (#136) · Apr 2021

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    Tom DeLonge

    Tom Delonge & Jim Semivan: An Honest Talk About Government Secrets! (#174) · Aug 2021

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    Bill Phillips

    A Brief History of Time Nobel Prizewinner Bill Phillips (#265) · Oct 2022

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    Danny Miranda

    Can Science and Religion Coexist? w/ Danny Miranda (2021) · 2 episodes

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    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Kim Stanley Robinson: The High Sierra: A Love Story (#325) · Jun 2023

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    Leonard Mlodinow

    Leonard Mlodinow – My Friend, Stephen Hawking (#112) · Jan 2021

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    Marcelo Gleiser

    Is There Hope for Humanity? Marcelo Gleiser’s Case for Biocentrism [Ep. 422] · Jun 2024

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  38. —
    Paul Davies

    Did the Big Bang Happen More Than Once? Brian Keating, Paul Davies & Maulik Parikh (#387) · 4 episodes

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    S. James Gates

    Putting Einstein to the TEST: Jim Gates (#293) · 2 episodes

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    Dava Sobel

    How Marie Curie’s Genius Shaped Science | Dava Sobel [Ep. 478] · Feb 2025

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