Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Dark Matter Has a Problem. So Does MOND.

For 50 years I taught my students that dark matter surrounds the Milky Way in a giant halo, or that Newton’s laws break down at low accelerations. The Gaia satellite just

OpenAI’s Navier–Stokes Claim: Is This What AGI Looks Like? with Emad Mostaque

Did OpenAI just solve Navier–Stokes—and what would that actually mean for AGI? Emad Mostaque joins Brian Keating LIVE to examine the claimed breakthrough, what would cou

Roman Yampolskiy vs Emad Mostaque: I Was The Only Optimist - #569

The man who open-sourced the most-used AI image model in history sat down with the man who has spent a decade proving superintelligence cannot be controlled. Brian set up

The Universe Didn’t Come From Nothing | The Peter McCormack Show

I joined Peter McCormack to dig into one of the deepest unanswered questions in physics: what is time, and why does it only seem to move in one direction? My answer might

The Physics Reason AI Works When It Shouldn’t - #568

The same mathematics that explains why a fridge magnet sticks to your refrigerator also explains why neural networks work when they have no right to. His group did the ca

Engineering Chair: Most People Should Not Go To College - #567

The system that produces the world’s most important discoveries runs on metrics that nobody agrees on, odds that would stop most people, and mentorship that sometimes loo

John Martinis: The Nobel Physicist Behind Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling - #566

John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for proving macroscopic quantum tunneling is real. Less than a year later he’s telling why he left Google’s quantum comp

Fermilab’s Scott Dodelson on Cosmology’s Crisis - #565

Scott Dodelson spent ten years on the Dark Energy Survey testing the standard model of cosmology. It passed and missed by 2.5 sigma. The Director of Fermilab’s Cosmic Phy

Faith & the Physicist: Aliens, Astrobiology, String Theory, and the Search for Meaning

Two theoretical physicists helped design landmark surveys of 1,600+ scientists on the deepest unsolved questions in physics — and found almost no consensus at all. From

Annie Jacobsen: How One Lab Leak Ends the World in 6 Days - #564

Annie Jacobsen on BIOLOGICAL WAR: how a single lab leak could take us from outbreak to anarchy in six days — and why bio may be scarier than nuclear. WIN a signed copy o

We Built Something We Can’t Control | A Warning from Top AI Safety Expert - #563

If anyone builds superintelligent AI before we know how to control it, everyone dies. Nate Soares wrote the book on why that’s not a metaphor. Subscribe if you want scien

Michael Shermer: The Only Skeptic on the Alien Task Force - #562

Michael Shermer just joined the White House’s new UAP task force alongside Avi Loeb. He also has a $1,000 bet with Loeb that we won’t find aliens by 2030. Both things are

400K Subscribers Asked Me Anything. The Answers Got Weird.

400,000 of you showed up for physics with no compromises, so I did something different for the milestone. No highlight reel. I took your hardest questions live and answer

Top Astronomer: UFOs Are STILL Here - #561

Astrophysicist Beatriz Villarroel found point-like flashes in sky photographs taken before a single satellite existed. Nine of them lit up simultaneously on one 1950s pla

Nobel Economist: The Market That Lets People Die - #560

A Nobel laureate in economics argues the bans we pass to protect our morals are quietly killing people and the data backs him up. Why the line between a market we allow a

Dead Cows, Aliens, & Ghosts: How Kevin Knuth Connects Them All

NASA physicist's UAP math survives. His conclusion doesn't. Mayim Bialik ran the razor first — Brian finishes the cut. Kevin Knuth is a tenured physicist, former NASA A

Intelligent Design Theorist: AI Just Proved It Can’t Think Without Us - #559

Stephen C. Meyer has a PhD from Cambridge in the philosophy of science, and he thinks AI just handed him his strongest argument yet. I spent years pushing back on him. To

Is the White House's New UAP Council a Game Changer for Disclosure?

Recently, Professor Avi Loeb was tasked by the White House, AARO, ODNI, and the FBI with assembling and leading a new UAP Science Advisory Council — comprising astrophysi

Roman Yampolskiy: AI Can’t Be Controlled — and We’re Building It Anyway - #558

Roman Yampolskiy has spent two decades trying to prove that superintelligent AI can be controlled. He couldn’t. I invited him on to make his case. Subscribe if you want s

Michio Kaku Went Viral On Diary of a CEO; I Had To Fact-Check

Physicist fact-checks Michio Kaku's biggest claims — quantum collapse of capitalism, Theory of Everything, black hole gateways. Does celebrity physics do more damage than