Dr. Brian Keating
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4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Sep 2025
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That happened about 5 billion years ago. And 4 billion years ago, the Earth formed out of that cloud. The spin of that disk, all things have a spin associated with them, like a figure skater. She's spinning around on her axis or whatever. She can have her arms out. Brings them in, she spins faster. That's called conservation of angular momentum. Spin is a type of angular momentum.
The whole disc is spinning in a plane. It's like this desk, this table that we're sitting at. If you're listening, you imagine a flat table. It's spinning. A circular disc is spinning with a certain direction. All the objects are moving in that same direction due to conservation of this term called angular momentum. The sun apparently moves in that position.
Obviously, we're rotating around the sun, but it looks like the sun's coming around us. The moon is, Jupiter. So on the day you were born, there's a constellation behind the sun from our perspective that was Libra on September 26. And that was the day that you were born. That determines the fact that you're a Libra. But there's a problem.
In December, where we are now, the sun is actually in a different constellation, the one that doesn't exist according to the zodiac that was created something like 6,000, 5,000 years ago. It's called Ophiuchus. So there's a certain segment of people born in a 17-day stretch. in December, late November to early December, that are actually Ophiuchins or Ophiuchuses or whatever.
So that should obliterate astrology as any semblance of a science because they didn't even know this constellation existed. And yet something like 12% of all people share that constellation. So it's just complete nonsense. There's no validity to it. Twins that are born on the same day have radically different histories, past, futures.
and there's no predictive power to it, and that's what science is about, right? We want to make a hypothesis, test it, iterate on it, and have confirmation of it, and there's zero, in fact, for astrology.
In fact, if you'll permit me a kind of silly story, when I was dating my wife, who had become my wife in the beginning, she kind of thought it's fun, maybe we'll go see someone who can tell our fortunes, we belong together, so we went to an astrologer. And the astrologer asked me a bunch of questions. When were you born, obviously. Oh, no, she asked me, what's your sign? So I said, I'm a Gemini.
And she said, OK, cool. And then she told me a bunch of things. And at the end, I said, I just want to double check. I was playing kind of a little bit of a jerk sometimes. So I said, I just want to confirm. Gemini is born in September. I'm born September 9th. She said, oh, no, no, that's a Virgo. But the same things are going to happen to you anyway. It didn't change her outcome.
And so in the language of the science, philosophy of science, Karl Popper, others, it's unfalsifiable. And you cannot be proven right. It's so flexible. You're going to find challenges. The stock market is going to fluctuate. Political turmoil, rain during your life. They're so flexible, it can accommodate any story. And that's a hallmark of non-science or sometimes anti-scientific thinking.
And not only correlated with that, something even more perhaps basic is temperature, right? In the hemisphere that you're born in, you would expect that all – I'm born, as I said, September 9th. It turns out that's the statistically most common birth date of humans on Earth. And why is that?
Exactly, right? So there's a correlation, right? Yeah, they're at home and they're indoors. They're at home. And they're procreating. Right. Or another thing is what month you're born in, you go back nine months. So actually, capitalism is awesome, right? So it's so efficient. So when you go to CVS, and I've known this several times, thank God, because my wife's been pregnant several times.
And and we have several kids. And when you go to CVS, it's actually pretty interesting. She goes there to buy a pregnancy test. Now, she's the kind of neurotic, you know, person that she had to buy like five pregnancy tests for each kid. OK, I don't know why, but that's what she did. So she's a she likes data.
Yes, unless it's a systematic error. And that's what I want to talk to you about later when it comes to the eye and other things. You go to CVS, you buy a pregnancy test, and she's on their gold plan program, whatever. She got the gold card from CVS because she's on it so many times. But when you go there, they know you're getting a pregnancy test.
So exactly nine months later, we start getting advertisements for Pampers and for diapers and for diaper creams and wipes and stuff. So they know They don't know this. They don't know... They're hedging even without knowing the results of the test. Yeah, exactly. What's the downside for them?
Anyway, so the temperature, right? So if you're gestating during summertime versus wintertime, that obviously will have some kind of an effect. I mean, you can tell me a lot more than that. But more than that, you hinted at this, and I'm not going to make you do any math surrounding pregnancy, but God forbid... I put out the correction to that. I defended you. I defended you.
I know.
I love it.
That's what a good scientist does. Oh, man. But they actually think that the first astronomers were women. Because they noticed this correlation. What's their monthly cycle? Their menstrual cycle is exactly 29 and a half days, which is actually the lunar cycle down to almost a minute. It's insane, right? That they would have looked up and noticed this renewal and diminishing of the moon.
And that there's actually evidence. Now, they weren't professional astronomers until, you know, actually the first professional female astronomer wasn't until like the 1700s in England, right? where she was recognized for using telescopes and so forth. But no, they were very keen on that.
And they were probably dialed into that and what that portended, as you alluded to, for the future of their child. I mean, this is a huge biological investment. Men don't have that. So actually, we are less symmetrical, you know this, than women, right? We have our testes are different lengths or whatever. I guess normal men at least. But women are more symmetrical.
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