Lawrence Krauss is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who previously taught at Arizona State University, Yale University, and Case Western Reserve University. He founded ASU's Origins Project, now called ASU Interplanetary Initiative, to investigate fundamental questions about the universe and served as the project's director. Krauss is an advocate for public understanding of science, public policy based on sound empirical data, scientific skepticism, and science education. An anti-theist, Krauss seeks to reduce the influence of what he regards as superstition and religious dogma in popular culture Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek (1995) and A Universe from Nothing (2012), and chaired the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Board of Sponsors.
GUEST MUSICIAN: Heather Pierson is a pianist, multi-instrumentalist, singer/songwriter, songleader, and performer whose inspiring live performances and growing catalog of releases delve into Americana, blues, New Orleans jazz, vocal chants, instrumental piano, and folk. Best known for her virtuosity at the piano and her bell-tone vocals, her songs and musicianship embody joy, honesty, playfulness, and a desire to share from the heart. In twenty years on her own record label, Vessel Recordings, she has released thirteen albums of original music including Lines and Spaces, her most ambitious and most personal release to date. https://heatherpierson.com/
LYRICS:
SURE WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT
Is there only what is and what not could be
Is there any such thing as possibilities
It's fun not knowing what it's all about
But I sure would like to find out
And what or where exactly is consciousness
Any speculation makes the water muddy I guess
It's fun not knowing what it's all about
But I sure would like to find out
Every flap of a butterflies wing
Is both an answer and a question
That looks into the nature of everything
There's an equal mix of tragedy and beauty stored
In every moment I'm alive how could I ever be bored
It's fun not knowing what it's all about
But I sure would like to find out
I'd really really like to find out
Before I die I'd like to find out
WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW
After so many years
Of searching science
Countless experiments
And breaking down of elements
Of contradictory theories
And fantastic formulas
Endless equations
To get to the truth
The only thing
That we can confidently say
Throughout the ages.... is that
We don't really know what we don't know
We can't even say what we can't see
We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown
Enough to prove that it is what it is
And we can't conceive of new realities
Or visualise a fraction of what might be
Our imagination, fails at application
When we think of new possibilities
So much of nature
Is still conjecture
And every new answer
Asks a hundred other questions
Once everything's disproved
The one thing that's left
The unchanging reality... is that
We don't really know what we don't know
We can't even say what we can't see
We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown
Enough to prove that it is what it is
And we can't conceive of new realities
Or visualise a fraction of what might be
Our imagination, fails at application
When we think of new possibilities
How did this something
Come from nothing
What forced its becoming
Well different types of nothing
Science is moving
Perpetually improving
Examining and removing
Until we have one unifying thing... and it's that
We don't really know what we don't know
We can't even say what we can't see
We've found known unknowns, And experiments have shown
Enough to prove that it is what it is
And we can't conceive of new realities
Or visualise a fraction of what might be
Our imagination, fails at application
When we think of new possibilities