The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
512. Time, Space, and the Miraculous | Dr. Brian Keating
Mon, 6 Jan 2025
Jordan Peterson sits down with experimental cosmologist Dr. Brian Keating. They discuss the importance of awe for the human spirit, the fundamental ethos behind all true science, the idea of the useless genius, and the necessity of sacrifice for improvement of the self and the broader community. Brian Keating is a Professor of Physics and an experimental cosmologist. He works on observations of the cosmic microwave background, the leftover heat from the Big Bang, and is the Principal Investigator of the Simons Observatory, located at a 17,000-foot elevation in the Chilean Atacama desert. He received his PhD from Brown in 2000 and is a distinguished professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of two books and has produced the first-ever audiobook by his intellectual hero, Galileo Galilei, “The Dialogue on Two World Systems.” He hosts the “INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE” podcast and teaches cosmology and astronomy at Peterson Academy. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and in 2024, he was invested as a member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. This episode was filmed on December 5th, 2024. | Links | For Dr. Brian Keating: Please subscribe to Brian’s YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE https://briankeating.com/podcast/ Social Media On X https://x.com/DrBrianKeating?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drbriankeating/?hl=en On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DrBrianKeating/ Read these books by Dr. Brian Keating Losing the Nobel Prize https://a.co/d/1oobu0T Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner https://a.co/d/c6khVaZ Galileo Galilei’s Dialogue https://a.co/d/8QA2a04
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Thank you.
Hey, everybody, some announcements today before my description of the podcast with Dr. Brian Keating. So the first is I just published this book, We Who Wrestle With God, and it hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list. So I'm kind of happy for five different reasons about that. There's a tour associated with it, some of it in December.
I'm going to be in Texas with my wife, our accompanying musician. And then from January through April, running through the United States. If you want more information about that, go to jordanbpeterson.com. The content of the tour...
or the approach of the tour will be similar to my previous tours in that I'm taking abstract concepts, in this case, concepts associated with the realm of story, particularly the stories of the Old Testament. I'm explaining their conceptual significance, but I'm also extracting out the practical implications of that understanding for attention and for behavior. And so it's always my goal to make
what I'm discussing applicable immediately in the real world, and that continues in this lecture series. We've released a new seminar series for Daily Wire+, featuring the same players with a few substitutions, as partook in the Exodus seminar, which was very popular, this time devoted to explication of the Gospels, and so that released on
The first in that series, 10-part series, released on December 1st, so you could go check that out as well. We're pretty excited about it.
It seems to be performing a little better than the Exodus seminar did, which is saying quite something, because I think that was the most popular offering that The Daily Wire produced, apart from Matt Walsh's movies, which is pretty good, given that it's so, you know, they're actually...
intellectually complex and somewhat arcane and the fact they have this public appeal is really something terrific. So that's the announcements for the time being. I had the privilege today of speaking with Dr. Brian Keating, one of the world's leading cosmologists. Dr. Keating has been a guest on my podcast before and that was plenty of fun and
We had an opportunity to continue our ongoing conversations. We talked a fair bit about his lecturing for Peterson Academy. He has a couple of courses on astronomy and cosmology there. We discussed the utility of the opportunity to bring high-quality mass education everywhere at very low cost, very well produced and at low cost.
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