Episode · The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett · 2024-12-02
Books mentioned on Brian Keating: I’m Spending $200 Million To Explore Why We Exist! How God Fits Into Science Finally Explained, Is God Real?
Could understanding the mystery of the Big Bang and how the Universe came into creation mean that we can finally know for sure if there is a creator? Professor Brian Keating is a cosmologist and experimental physicist at the University of California San Diego.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Into the Impossible : Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner
Discussed“One of the things in his book which I read, he hasn't come on my podcast. I'd like to talk to him, but he talks about these these craft and and the properties of them and how when you're inside of them they're bigger than they are when you're outside of them...”
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm by George Orwell is a classic allegorical novella that critiques totalitarianism and political corruption through the story of farm animals who overthrow their human farmer.
Discussed“There's a scene the book Animal Farm where there's this donkey named Benjamin and he's talking to the pig and the pig says to the donkey you know, I love your tail. It's so big. I got this short little curly tail. It's good for nothing. You got this beautiful tail. It could sweep away the flies. And the donkey”
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Own book Losing the Nobel Prize
“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.”
“BICEP being the telescope you built in the South Pole. Yeah, that lost the Nobel Prize in my first book's language.”
Own book Into the Impossible
“Actually the forward to this my second book into the impossible is written by Barry Barish. He won the 2017 Nobel Prize.”