Avi Loeb

Today I'm talking with somebody you probably know, Professor Avi Loeb.

He's a theoretical physicist at Harvard, he's the longest-serving chair of the astronomy department in its history, and he has over a thousand peer-reviewed papers.

He's got nine books.

The guy's resume is absurd.

But here's what makes Avi different from every other Harvard professor.

He took all that credibility and aimed it at the one question most scientists are afraid to touch.

Are we alone?

He's the one who said Oumuamua, the first interstellar object we ever detected, might be an alien light sail.

He dragged a magnet across the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to recover fragments of an interstellar meteor.

His childhood on a farm in Israel, how he accidentally ended up at Harvard because nobody else wanted the job, what Arrow told him behind closed doors, and a new threat to astronomy that nobody's talking about.

Let's go down to the basement.

Avi, welcome.

Thanks for having me.

I'm excited.

Before we get to the good stuff, I want to know about...

how a farm boy grows up collecting chicken eggs, riding tractors, thinking about philosophy.

What is young Avi thinking about on that farm?

What was that like?

The most fundamental questions about our existence, because I thought, you know, we all die, what's the point?

If we don't understand why we are here and what the purpose of our existence is and what kind of inspiring...