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Brian Keating

American cosmologist

Brian Gregory Keating (born September 9, 1971) is an American cosmologist, book author, and podcaster. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego.

Brian Keating in 2022

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  • Each year, on December tenth, thousands of worshippers convene in Scandinavia to commemorate the passing of an arms dealt known as the merchant of death. The eschatological ritual features all the rites and incantations befitting a pharaoh's funeral. Haunting dirges play as the worshippers, bedecked in mandatory regalia, mourn the merchant. He is eerily present; his visage looms over the congregants as they feast on exotic game, surrounded by fresh-cut flowers imported from the merchant's mausoleum. The event culminates with the presentation of gilded, graven images bearing his likeness.
    This ritual is the annual Nobel Prize award ceremony, but you'd be forgiven for thinking it was an occult sacrament.

… I hope by humanizing science, by showing the craft of science as performed by its master practitioners, you my reader will see common themes emerge that will boost your creativity, stoke your imagination, and most of all, help overcome barriers like the imposter syndrome, thereby unlocking your full potential for out-of-this-universe success.

  • I'm an experimentalist. I like to look at hard data. And there — string theory is a distant second to loop quantum gravity because it doesn't make any observable predictions. ... As an experimentalist, I like when a theory makes a prediction. My job is to not prove theorists right — it's to disprove everybody else.

Quotes about Brian Keating

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  • Friedman had suffered health problems over the years. But news of his death stunned friends and colleagues, including UCSD physicist Brian Keating, who recruited him to La Jolla, and physicist-science fiction author David Brin of Olivenhain.
    The trio made up “The Three Physicists,” an informal group that periodically met to give public talks on science and philosophy.
    ...
    With Brin and Keating, he also dove into esoterica, tackling subjects such as the physics of free will.
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