Celebrating Einstein

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🗓️ 9 March 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Join Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and astrophysicist Janna Levin as they celebrate the life and achievements of Albert Einstein and his impact on the scientific world around us including the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/celebrating-einstein/ Credit: Ferdinand Schmutzer, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	Star Talk begins right now.
0:23.4	This is Star Talk.
0:24.4	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:28.6	I got with me Chuck Nice.
0:29.6	How are you buddy?
0:30.6	I'm reading at Chuck Nice comic.
0:32.6	Thank you sir.
0:33.6	Yes.
0:34.6	You have to tell people that you're funny so that they'll laugh at your tweet.
0:36.6	Otherwise, how would they know?
0:41.4	So Chuck, no one isn't a fan of Albert Einstein.
0:44.2	That is true.
0:45.2	He's like the modern icon of what it is to be smart.
0:47.9	He's also somebody that he's so smart that people use him as the singular example of being
0:53.4	smart.
0:54.4	And his name is an adjective.
0:55.4	Right.
0:56.4	He's some kind of Einstein.
0:58.4	You know what he said about himself?
1:00.1	Having introduced you yet, Janna.
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