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Book · 2018 · Science

Losing the Nobel Prize

A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science's Highest Honor

by Brian Keating · Recommended by 1 person on 1 podcast

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You mentioned time machine i think in your book losing the nobel prize you talk about time machines.
Lex Fridman · Lex Fridman Podcast · Jan 2022 Listen at 5:52

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Lex Fridman you mentioned time machine i think in your book losing the nobel prize you talk about time machines 1
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“you mentioned time machine i think in your book losing the nobel prize you talk about time machines”
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“spoiler alert, you know, my first book's called Losing the Nobel Prize. So, something went wrong. Something went really wrong.”
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“That's the subject of the first book that I wrote, Losing the Nobel Prize. If we do get to that point where we can sort of have evidence for it”
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“you know, my first book's called Losing the Nobel Prize. So, it wasn't wasn't this guy. And it wasn't any of us because it was retracted later on”
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“your book that you losing the Nobel Prize, losing the Nobel Prize into the impossible, think like a Nobel Prize winner. And then in the fall, coming out on my birthday, September 9th, is”
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“so in fact you know spoiler alert my first book is called losing the Nobel Prize because we had a retracted discovery that we made at Harvard on on ”
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“you didn't think you were going to go down and you're going to discover dust instead of the Big Bang which is what happened to me in my I describ my first book”
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“And then eventually, I didn't get, you know, spoiler alert, my first book's called Losing the Nobel Prize, but there's only, you know, at most three people that can win a Nobel Prize every year.”
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“my book is called losing the nuball prize my first book”
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“I mean my book is called losing the nuball prize my first book and spoiler alert you know I didn't win the nuball prize”
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“He is also the author of more than 200 scientific publications, the equivalent of between 60 and 70 PhDs, by the way, two US patents, and the best-selling books Into the Impossible, Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner, and Losing the Nobel Prize.”
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“Yeah, so this is a very very important chapter not only in my life, but it's it it will talked about in future years as an example of of how science actually gets done and it's a subject of my first book Losing the Nobel Prize.”
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“Inflation says I didn't get to this before but when we made this detection in 2014 that's described in my book Losing the Nobel Prize we claimed we detected these waves of gravity.”
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“But this the point is that you do have the tendency and this is in part what my first book Losing the Nobel Prize is about. It's about wanting to discover something that's not only viscerally connected to you and your career...”
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“so in 2001 i came up with an experiment with colleagues at caltech which we call bicep like i said it's the subject of this book losing the nobel prize”
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“the following is a conversation with brian keating experimental physicist at ussd and author of losing the nobel prize and into the impossible”
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“you know just because you you you know and in my case in my books i i talk a lot about the nobel prize”
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“yeah that book is in contradiction in the second book that's like a memoir”
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“so even if i had which you know spoiler alert the book's called losing the nobel prize”
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“he wrote the forward to this my book into the about he he won the nobel prize because a different guy died”
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“and that can also happen to us as I described in my book so my book is called losing the Nobel Prize”

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