Cosmic Queries – Expanding Bubble Universes

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Is time dilation just the data loading in a cosmic simulation? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice answer grab bag questions about saving the Sun, generation spaceships, bubble universes, and more!

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0:00.0	Chuck, this was a grab bag and everybody keeps asking about black holes.
0:03.6	It is.
0:04.4	They got black hole on the brain.
0:05.7	And none of them have pronounceable names.
0:08.2	What Chuck mangled names the way black holes mangle matter.
0:11.8	Very nice.
0:13.1	On StarTalk.
0:16.5	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:19.1	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:23.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:27.6	This is StarTalk, Cosmic Queries Edition.
0:33.6	Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:38.2	Chuck, nice baby.
0:39.4	Hey, what's happening?
0:40.2	All right.
0:41.9	To grab bags, he's stick your hand in a bag.
0:51.8	You don't know what you're going to get. He comes out. And it's random. Right. Exactly. So, and, you know, if it's a turd, it's your fault, people. Tirt. If we pull out a turd, it's your fault.
0:53.4	This is all you.
0:55.6	All right, this is Joshua from Portland, Oregon.
1:11.1	He says, hey, Dr. Tyson, Lord Nice. I'm Joshua from Portland, Oregon. I love the movie Sunshine. But the main plot of... I haven't seen sunshine. I haven't seen either. He says the main plot of reviving our sun by sending all of Earth's nuclear material to the sun seemed more than far-fetched and even a quite bit cheesy.
1:16.5	Putting all the cheesy aspects of the movie aside,
1:19.5	the movie did address what it would be like getting near our sun.
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