Dr. Brian Keating

manipulating wormholes like my friend Kip Thorne and so forth, who did the science behind the movie Interstellar. I was the advisor to Christopher Nolan. I'm not a theoretical physicist. So what do I do? I do experiments. The more experiments, the better. But you only do another experiment because some aspect of the previous experiment failed. And that's fine.

manipulating wormholes like my friend Kip Thorne and so forth, who did the science behind the movie Interstellar. I was the advisor to Christopher Nolan. I'm not a theoretical physicist. So what do I do? I do experiments. The more experiments, the better. But you only do another experiment because some aspect of the previous experiment failed. And that's fine.

That's part of the iterative process of science that makes it not only so important and so annealed, so hardened by truth and the process of attempting to achieve truth, imperfectly as it may be, but getting things wrong. Look what happens when you get something wrong. Let's be honest. It's a surprise, right?

That's part of the iterative process of science that makes it not only so important and so annealed, so hardened by truth and the process of attempting to achieve truth, imperfectly as it may be, but getting things wrong. Look what happens when you get something wrong. Let's be honest. It's a surprise, right?

That's part of the iterative process of science that makes it not only so important and so annealed, so hardened by truth and the process of attempting to achieve truth, imperfectly as it may be, but getting things wrong. Look what happens when you get something wrong. Let's be honest. It's a surprise, right?

You didn't think you were going to go down and you're going to discover dust instead of the Big Bang, which is what happened to me in describing my first book. We thought we saw the gravitational wave aftermath of the inflationary universe that we talked about in my first podcast episode with you. But instead, that led to the Simons Observatory.

You didn't think you were going to go down and you're going to discover dust instead of the Big Bang, which is what happened to me in describing my first book. We thought we saw the gravitational wave aftermath of the inflationary universe that we talked about in my first podcast episode with you. But instead, that led to the Simons Observatory.

You didn't think you were going to go down and you're going to discover dust instead of the Big Bang, which is what happened to me in describing my first book. We thought we saw the gravitational wave aftermath of the inflationary universe that we talked about in my first podcast episode with you. But instead, that led to the Simons Observatory.

It's led to a $200 million project that is now going to not only look for the gold, but also look for the dragons, look for the dust, look for the things that are in the impediments. So the surprise was not a failure at all. I mean, look, when you solve a puzzle, you get a little bit of thrill. And remember when you were a kid, you had a Rubik's Cube, you had this thing or that.

It's led to a $200 million project that is now going to not only look for the gold, but also look for the dragons, look for the dust, look for the things that are in the impediments. So the surprise was not a failure at all. I mean, look, when you solve a puzzle, you get a little bit of thrill. And remember when you were a kid, you had a Rubik's Cube, you had this thing or that.

It's led to a $200 million project that is now going to not only look for the gold, but also look for the dragons, look for the dust, look for the things that are in the impediments. So the surprise was not a failure at all. I mean, look, when you solve a puzzle, you get a little bit of thrill. And remember when you were a kid, you had a Rubik's Cube, you had this thing or that.

You'd solve the puzzle, and you would do something that no adult does. You'd do it again. Like, my kids do this all the time. They solve a Rubik's Cube, then another one messes it up, then the other one solves it. And, like, I already solved it. Like, I don't need to rewrite my PhD thesis. Like, I already wrote it. But there's a little bit of that thrill that you get when you are surprised.

You'd solve the puzzle, and you would do something that no adult does. You'd do it again. Like, my kids do this all the time. They solve a Rubik's Cube, then another one messes it up, then the other one solves it. And, like, I already solved it. Like, I don't need to rewrite my PhD thesis. Like, I already wrote it. But there's a little bit of that thrill that you get when you are surprised.

You'd solve the puzzle, and you would do something that no adult does. You'd do it again. Like, my kids do this all the time. They solve a Rubik's Cube, then another one messes it up, then the other one solves it. And, like, I already solved it. Like, I don't need to rewrite my PhD thesis. Like, I already wrote it. But there's a little bit of that thrill that you get when you are surprised.

I say this to my students all the time. I say, flaws... in your experiment, in your theory, lead to new laws. It's not like we study. Do you know, Jordan, that we're made of matter, right? But in the early universe, we think that there was almost an exact symmetry. It's one of these guiding principles of physics, that there are symmetries. Conservation of energy is a type of symmetry.

I say this to my students all the time. I say, flaws... in your experiment, in your theory, lead to new laws. It's not like we study. Do you know, Jordan, that we're made of matter, right? But in the early universe, we think that there was almost an exact symmetry. It's one of these guiding principles of physics, that there are symmetries. Conservation of energy is a type of symmetry.

I say this to my students all the time. I say, flaws... in your experiment, in your theory, lead to new laws. It's not like we study. Do you know, Jordan, that we're made of matter, right? But in the early universe, we think that there was almost an exact symmetry. It's one of these guiding principles of physics, that there are symmetries. Conservation of energy is a type of symmetry.

Angular momentum's conservation is another type of symmetry. Displacement, the symmetry, those are all the things that we say exist. The laws of physics shouldn't change. They should not look different in a mirror or upside down or on Pluto or in Arizona. It should not make a difference who you are, where you are.

Angular momentum's conservation is another type of symmetry. Displacement, the symmetry, those are all the things that we say exist. The laws of physics shouldn't change. They should not look different in a mirror or upside down or on Pluto or in Arizona. It should not make a difference who you are, where you are.

Angular momentum's conservation is another type of symmetry. Displacement, the symmetry, those are all the things that we say exist. The laws of physics shouldn't change. They should not look different in a mirror or upside down or on Pluto or in Arizona. It should not make a difference who you are, where you are.