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 {{w|La Jolla}}, and physicist-science fiction author {{w|David Brin}} of {{w|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.”

“I'm an experimentalist. I like to look at hard data. And there — string theory is a distant second to {{w|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.”

“We should be agnostic as to what the {{W|dark matter}} might be.”