Are We The Universe’s Way of Knowing Itself? With Brian Cox

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🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

What is truly foundational to the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice welcome particle physicist Brian Cox for a discussion about emergence, particles, consciousness, and the very fabric of spacetime.

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0:00.0	Chuck, we got Brian Cox.
0:01.4	Yes.
0:01.9	Yes.
0:02.4	I'm preparing to be confused.
0:04.4	No.
0:05.1	No.
0:06.0	He's going to take us inside the atom and out.
0:09.3	That's right.
0:09.9	Oh, yeah.
0:10.7	And we graph that onto the universe.
0:12.3	There's nothing left that we didn't touch in that cosmic queries coming up on StarTalk.
0:19.3	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:21.7	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:27.7	StarTalk begins right now.
0:32.1	This is StarTalk.
0:34.5	Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:55.1	Got with me, Chuck Nice. Chuck a baby. Hey, hey, Neil. All right, all right. What's happening? So, you know what we got today? Yeah. We got an old favorite. Yes, we do. Someone who is, I will say, just as popular in the world of science as you. No, no, he's way more popular.
0:56.8	No, I'm not going to get that far.
0:58.2	I'm sorry.
1:00.1	I know you, I know he's here.
1:04.2	There's objective evidence for what I just said.
1:05.0	Really?
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