Dr. Brian Keating
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1,291 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Sep 2025
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We're at the threshold of this incredible new era of discoveries and things like AI and quantum computing and all the rest.
We're at this amazing time.
Take advantage of it, but do your best to concentrate on what you uniquely can bring to the table.
Go down the chain.
Yeah.
This is great.
Thanks, brother.
Congrats on your success too, my friend.
Dr. Andrew Huberman.
That's right. I do do hair and makeup if you're interested.
So I get to study, you know, the entire universe basically. And it's not really such a stretch that cosmetology and cosmology share this prefix because... The prefix cosmos is what relates those two words together that seem to be completely, you know, unrelated to each other, right? But it turns out the word cosmos in Greek, the etymology of it, is beautiful or appearance.
So we have a beautiful appearance. You know, we look a certain way. We're attracted to certain things. But it kind of reflects the fact that the night sky is also beautiful, attractive, and evokes something viscerally in us. We humans are born beautiful. with two refracting telescopes in our skulls, embedded in our skulls. And as you point out, the retina is outside the cranial vault.
I'll never forget you saying that. That means we have astronomical detection tools built into us. We don't have tools to detect the Higgs boson built into us or to look at a microscopic virus or something like that. So astronomy is not only the oldest of all sciences, it's the most visceral one. So it connects us.
And of the sciences, of that branch of science, of astronomical sciences, cosmology is really the most overarching. It really includes everything, all physical processes that were involved in the formation of matter, of energy, maybe of time itself. And it speaks to a universal urge, I think, to know what came before us.
Like I always ask people, I'll ask you, I know what the answer is probably, but what's your favorite day on the calendar?
Yeah.
New Year's Day, exactly. What is that? It's a beginning. It's a new—some people say their birthday, their kid's birthday, if they're smart, their anniversary, right? You don't want to get too out of control with the misses. What are those? Those are beginnings. What's the only event that no entity could even bear witness to? The origin of the universe.
I think that speaks to something primal in human beings that are curious at least. We want to uncover the secrets of what existed, what came before us. And we don't have any way of seeing that currently. So we have to use the fossils that have made their way throughout all of cosmic time to understand what that was like at the very beginning of time. And perhaps...
maybe about the universe as it existed before time itself began. So to me, it's incredibly fascinating. It encompasses all of science in some sense. It even can include life on other planets, consciousness, the formation of the brain. And to me, I'm always interested in the biggest questions. And the biggest topics that evoke curiosity in me is how did it all get here?
And so that's what cosmology allows us to do, apply the strict exacting laws of physics to a specific domain, which is the origin of everything in the universe. That's what makes it so fascinating.
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