#alanlightman #consciousness #physics Alan Lightman is currently a Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Alan has written several books on topics ranging from relativity and gravitation to personal development. The topic of this episode of the Into The Impossible Podcast is his new book, The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science. Contents: 00:00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:52:03 Judging Alan's Book by its cover. 00:06:54:16 How do faith and science get along in practice? 00:15:01:17 Questions about Albert Einstein 00:19:20:16 Do our senses really depict the world around us? 00:27:37:15 Could a Machine understand Einstein's happiest thought? 00:36:05:20 Is spirituality sourced from matter? 00:46:32:00 The origin and taxonomy of faith 00:52:23:23 Final Four Questions Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join ? Watch my most popular videos:? Neil Turok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5cFLN65fI Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Eric Weinstein vs. Stephen Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose: https://youtu.be/AMuqyAvX7Wo Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/g00ilS6tBvs Avi Loeb: https://youtu.be/N9lUceHsLRw Follow me to ask questions of my guests: ?‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating ? Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ? Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php ?️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5DXUZet7HE

Just in time for the holidays, my gift guide shows you how to buy a time-machine for the kid in your life. This gift is a portal to a life of curiosity and wonder that doubles as a teacher, life long hobby, and, potentially, a career! This wonderful gift transformed me from a nerdy introverted pimple faced kid, to a Professor of physics. It changed my life forever. While my first telescope, obtained in 1984, cost about $50, inflation (not the cosmological kind ?), has taken those costs to over $100! But at least new ones coming with some of these instruments feature tools scarcely imaginable 37 years ago, like ‘smart phone adapters’ and GPS receivers! So, at the end of the video I’ll give you tips to do the same for a the kid in your life . Get my telescope buyer's guide here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php for a few telescope options for budgets ranging from $50 on up! ? Watch my most popular videos:? A New Contender is Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6A6myur--c Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Michael Saylor The Physics of Bitcoin https://youtu.be/CaN_CDKqXOg?sub_confirmation=1 Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize winner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuqyAvX7Wo?sub_confirmation=1 Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/V6dMM2-X6nk Sarah Scoles: https://youtu.be/apVKobWigMw Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Be my friend: ✍️Join my Mailing List: http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php ?‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating ? Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ?️Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php A production of http://imagination.ucsd.edu/ Support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating Credits: Thanks to UCSD's StudioU's Treb Padula ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw0r63-PvVU

Please join my mailing list here ? https://briankeating.com to win a meteorite ? In this clip from my interview with the one and only Brian Greene, we discuss string theory, Eric Weinstein, Peter Woit, and Juan Maldacena. Enjoy! Check out the full interview: https://youtu.be/qpsxH7mOopM Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join ? Watch my most popular videos: Neil Turok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt5cFLN65fI Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 ➡️ Follow me on your fav platforms: ✖️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating ? YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ? Join my mailing list: https://briankeating.com/mailing_list ✍️ Check out my blog: https://briankeating.com/blog.php ?️ Follow my podcast: https://briankeating.com/podcast Into the Impossible with Brian Keating is a podcast dedicated to all those who want to explore the universe within and beyond the known. Make sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode! #intotheimpossible #briankeating #briangreene ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlbglnga9v4

There's been speculation in the popular press, primarily by Eric Lerner (@LPPFusion), claiming the Big Bang never happened. Supposedly, new data from the James Webb Space Telescope presents a 'crisis' for an old universe that emerged from a hot dense plasma, in favor of a much more ancient cosmology -- a plasma cosmology. Prof. Lewis and I will present flaws in Eric Lerner's article, loosely based on his 30-year-old book of nearly the same name, "The Big Bang Never Happened", and evidence that contradicts his claims about the so-called crisis. Slides will be posted to my mailing list briankeating.com/list Yet the underpinnings of the Big Bang are more solid than ever, thanks in large part to the fossil evidence astrophysicists have found of primordial nucleosynthesis, also called BBN. Join us for a deep dive into the physics of the formation of the elements, the redshift distance relation, and the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation -- perhaps the most indisputable evidence for the hot Big Bang there is. We will provide insight into how I review such claims and how you can too even if you're not a professional cosmologist: judge for yourself. Resources: Lerner's article https://iai.tv/articles/the-big-bang-didnt-happen-auid-2215 Lerner's first reply to criticism from me and Dr Becky, and Ethan Siegel: https://youtu.be/360aZiIWdjQ from LPPFusion with Eric Lerner replying to @drbecky_, , Anton Petrov @WhatDaMath,, Ethan Siegel @StartsWithABang and others in new series on Big Bang Never Happened Debate. #BigBang #BigBangNeverHappened #JWST @Dr. Becky presentation https://youtu.be/Fqfap3v0xxw @Anton Petrov analysis https://youtu.be/Y2DOCWyyhdI UCLA Professor Ned Wright: Errors in the "The Big Bang Never Happened" https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/lerner_errors.html Follow Allison Kirkpatrick https://twitter.com/AkAstronomy Ethan Siegel https://twitter.com/StartsWithABang https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/has-jwst-disproven-big-bang/ Watch my first video on this controversy: https://youtu.be/SYeUkVqDZjA Watch my deep dive into the physics of the Big Bang nucleosynthesis https://youtu.be/XLT05w79c64 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join ? Watch my most popular videos:? A New Contender is Here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6A6myur--c Frank Wilczek https://youtu.be/3z8RqKMQHe0?sub_confirmation=1 Weinstein and Wolfram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI0AZ4Y4Ip4?sub_confirmation=1 Sheldon Glashow: https://youtu.be/a0_iaWgxQtA?sub_confirmation=1 Neil deGrasse Tyson https://youtu.be/1kxgK6J4S5Y Michio Kaku: https://youtu.be/3to9ymn-XKI Sir Roger Penrose: https://youtu.be/AMuqyAvX7Wo Jill Tarter https://youtu.be/O9K9OBd3vHk?sub_confirmation=1 Sara Seager Venus LIfe: https://youtu.be/QPsEDoOTU6k?sub_confirmation=1 Noam Chomsky: https://youtu.be/Iaz6JIxDh6Y?sub_confirmation=1 Sabine Hossenfelder: https://youtu.be/sh98cwRkzAA Stephen Wolfram: https://youtu.be/nSAemRxzmXM Avi Loeb: https://youtu.be/N9lUceHsLRw Jim Simons: https://youtu.be/6fr8XOtbPqM Be my friend: ?‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating ? Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 ? Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/mailing_list.php ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php ?️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast.php ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPna7WUODuo