I joined Peter McCormack to dig into one of the deepest unanswered questions in physics: what is time, and why does it only seem to move in one direction? My answer might surprise you. Time may not be a fundamental feature of reality at all, and understanding space, matter, and energy still doesn't mean we understand the universe itself.We cover: - What may have existed before the Big Bang- Why something can't truly come from nothing- How my work with the Simons Observatory could detect gravitational waves from the universe's earliest moments- What dark matter actually means- Why even a film as detail-obsessed as Interstellar still gets the physics wrong.The conversation then turns from cosmic time to human time: mortality, family, meaning, and attention. We get into UFO disclosure, the collapse of institutional trust, and whether AI can ever reproduce the embodied human insight that let Einstein transform physics. My take: AI remains a tool built to serve humanity, and it's time we stop apologizing for humanity's greatness.———📬 Get the transcript, fascinating bonus content, and my Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message: https://briankeating.com/yt🌠 Have a .edu email and live in the USA 🇺🇸? You automatically win a meteorite: https://BrianKeating.com/edu🔔 Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1🎯 Support Into the Impossible on Patreon — get my weekly M.A.G.I.C. Message, unfiltered bonus content, and live monthly Office Hours with me: https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating⭐ Join this channel for perks, monthly Office Hours, and your name in the Member Roster at the end of every episode:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join📚 My books:Losing the Nobel Prize (memoir): http://amzn.to/2sa5UpAThink Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/03ezQFuFocus Like a Nobel Prize Winner: https://a.co/d/hi50U9UGalileo's Dialogue (first-ever audiobook): https://a.co/d/iZPi9Un🌐 More:🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianKeating📚 Substack https://briankeating.substack.com/ss✍️ Blog: https://briankeating.com/blog🎙️ Audio-only: https://briankeating.com/podcast#intotheimpossible #briankeating #science #physics #astronomy #cosmology #podcast #universeLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices