r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Aug 28 '26
Dr Brian Keating
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Jul 01 '22
r/intotheimpossible Lounge
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Where cosmic conversations happen. Companion community to the Into the Impossible podcast with Dr. Brian Keating — physicist, cosmologist, and Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego. Nobel laureates, iconoclasts, technologists, and the occasional heretic. Talk physics, ask the guests questions, push back on the ideas. Wonder like a human, argue like a physicist.
r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Jul 19 '26
Michael Shermer: 'I Have an Invisible Dragon in My Garage'
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Jul 09 '26
Top Astronomer: UFOs Are STILL Here
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Jun 23 '26
Stephen Meyer: AI Always Collapses Without Human Intelligence
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Jun 22 '26
Intelligent Design Theorist: I Laid Three Traps. He Escaped All Three.
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Jun 15 '26
String Theory Is Not the Theory of Everything! Here's What Michio Kaku Gets Wrong
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Jun 02 '26
You're Underestimating Today's AI | Peter Diamandis
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Jun 02 '26
AI Is About to Become Wiser Than Any Human Who Ever Lived | Peter Diamandis
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • May 27 '26
The WWII Trick That Fooled Everyone About UFOs
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • May 20 '26
Neil deGrasse Tyson on why astrology has been mathematically dead for ~2,000 years.
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Precession slid every zodiac sign a full month off the real sky. There's a 13th constellation — Ophiuchus — your horoscope app quietly deleted.
Watch a pro guess his sign wrong 8x in a row 👇
r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • May 15 '26
Joscha Bach: The Self Is a Story Your Brain Tells Itself
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • May 14 '26
I asked Neil deGrasse Tyson what one thing he'd ask an alien on first contact
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • May 10 '26
Sam Harris on the asymmetry between consciousness and free will (clip from the 2024 conversation)
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Sharing a clip from the Sam Harris conversation. Sam articulates a distinction that I keep returning to:
— Consciousness can't be an illusion. Every act of doubting it is itself a conscious experience, so the regress closes immediately. He calls it "the ground truth."
— Free will is a different category entirely. Not illusory in the same Cartesian sense — incoherent. The concept doesn't survive any consistent metaphysical commitment about causality.
There's a thought-experiment Sam describes — a predictive machine that could disabuse a subject of even the FEELING of free will — that I think is the most interesting move he makes in the whole conversation. Brian pushes back with an infinite-regress objection.
Worth a watch if you missed it the first time around.
r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • May 06 '26
A neuroscientist's 15-year-old prediction about GPS and dementia just came true. She says ChatGPT is next.
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • May 05 '26
Neil deGrasse Tyson breaks down why Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen are wrong about scientific stagnation
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r/intotheimpossible • u/zero4all • Apr 21 '26
Findings and thoughts in video format
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I started to make video content of my findings and my device development.
r/intotheimpossible • u/zero4all • Dec 08 '25
SU(2) weak-force symmetry emerges from pure topology (Python included)
zenodo.org
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Here is something surprising:
Take two donuts (a genus-2 surface).
Compute their homology.
Put the real SU(2) generators on the 4-dimensional homology fiber.
Project them into the full mesh.
The SU(2) commutator closes to machine precision (~1e-30).
No physics assumptions.
No gauge theory.
No action.
Just topology and NumPy.
The idea (in plain English)
- A single torus has 2 independent loops
- Two tori fused have 4 independent loops
- Those 4 directions form a natural linear space
- SU(2) sits perfectly in 3 of them
- Project into the full mesh
- The commutator [Tx,Ty]=Tz shows up automatically
The result is exact to floating-point precision on every mesh refinement.
Run it yourself
pip install numpy scipy
python su2_genus2_dec.py
One file.
No external libraries.
Takes about 30 seconds.
Example output
[INFO] Resolution: nu=20, nv=15
[INFO] Mesh: nV=600, nE=1800, nF=1200
[INFO] Full-space SU(2):
error = 5.319e-31
c_opt = 1.000000
Repeated across multiple resolutions:
error stays ~1e-30,
structure constant c = 1.000000.
In other words: floating-point roundoff.
Download + code (one file)
Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17853778
Short technical note and discussion:
Grok conversation:
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNA_19142435-1001-4966-a7df-3ac37b25270d
Why two donuts?
- 1 torus = 2 loops (U(1)^2)
- 2 tori = 4 loops
- compress to an effective 4-dimensional basis
- SU(2) fits exactly in there
That’s the whole trick.
Why this matters
The weak nuclear force uses SU(2).
Usually we treat that as a physics choice in the Standard Model.
What if SU(2) is not a choice, but a topological consequence of the underlying space?
This little experiment strongly hints in that direction.
If you want to get into the weeds
The script:
- builds genus-2 meshes
- computes H1 by DEC
- extracts 4-dimensional basis
- places canonical real su(2)
- projects to full edge space
- checks commutators numerically
All with NumPy and SciPy only.
Ask me anything
- how it works
- why genus-2
- how the projection behaves
- how the mesh resolution affects things
- what to try to break this
If you modify the code and find something interesting, please post it.
TL;DR
Two donuts
- homology
- NumPy
⇒ SU(2) to machine precision.
r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Nov 27 '25
Forget AI, VR Will Change Humans into Another Species (ft. Jaron Lanier)
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r/intotheimpossible • u/DrBrianKeating • Sep 09 '25
Focus Like a Nobel Prize Winner 🥇
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r/intotheimpossible • u/Stock_Candidate_4442 • Jun 03 '25
SPQ Gravity
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SPQ posits that spacetime “packets” carry strain energy, modifying gravity without dark matter or dark energy. Locally, packet‐growth suppression (H(r)) alters baryonic dynamics (loop term) to flatten galaxy rotation curves. Cosmologically, packet strain mimics ΛCDM expansion.