Ep. 1066: Will Kinney Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Will Kinney, a professor in the Department of Physics at the University at Buffalo. Dr. Kinney received his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University, and PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Dr. Kinney's research focuses on the physics of the very early universe, including inflationary cosmology, the Cosmic Microwave Background, Dark Matter, and Dark Energy. He has authored more than seventy published research articles and received the SUNY Chancellor's award for excellence in teaching in 2014.

The topic is his book An Infinity of Worlds: Cosmic Inflation and the Beginning of the Universe.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

The progress in cosmology
Big Bang
How the elements in the periodic table were formed
What is it like to be an amateur astronomer?
Understanding where the universe came from
The light left over from the Big Bang
People's progress in the search for life beyond Earth
Modern cosmological theories
Where did all the structure in the universe come from?
The basis of the cosmological principle

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	You know, it's always a little dangerous when you get into a conversation with a physicist,
0:38.8	one who has an especially strong knowledge of the cosmos.
0:45.1	That's where I am today.
0:46.8	Jumping in with my guest today, Will Kinney.
0:49.8	It's the question that when you think about the cosmos, it's the basic one.
0:55.3	What happened before the Big Bang?
0:58.7	Was there before?
1:00.6	Will does a great job of getting into a new theory about the ultimate origin of the universe.
1:07.1	Look, this is detailed stuff.
1:08.6	We are talking about analyzing the last 14 billion years.
1:13.5	And believe it or not, guys like Will, they can get that detailed.
1:17.9	It's absolutely amazing. You really have to salute the men and women who have dedicated their lives to such curiosity, to dive in, to use the best technology that we have, to try to find out
1:32.2	how the hell it all started. And like I hinted at the beginning, when you talk to a physicist,
1:39.7	when you jump into a topic like this, your brain starts to, I'm not going to say hurt, but I tell you what,
1:47.7	it challenges everything you've got if you're not an expert in this subject. And I'm not an
1:52.6	expert in this subject. But I think at the end, Will gave me some kind words that I navigated him
1:58.7	through this great topic with a plum.
2:03.0	Without any further delay, let's jump right into an infinity of worlds.
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