Cosmic Queries - Flat Universe

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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If you crunched the asteroid belt into one object, would it make a planet? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohost Chuck Nice answer fan questions about the shape of the universe, the origin of matter, the Casimir Force, pizza toppings, and more!

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0:00.0	Chuck, that might be a world record, how many questions I answered.
0:02.7	Yes.
0:03.1	In the time allotted.
0:04.0	Exactly.
0:04.7	And you only got two of them right.
0:06.5	It's what is it?
0:12.2	All right.
0:12.9	All right.
0:13.0	Coming up, StarTalk, Cosmic Queries.
0:17.7	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:20.3	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:25.9	StarTalk begins right now.
0:32.3	This is StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:54.2	This is going to be a Cosmic Queries grab bag. And whenever you hear that, you know who's sitting next to me. Chuck Nice. Hey, that's right. What's up, Neil? All right. Grab bag, baby. Grab bag, baby. That's right. Used to be, I liked it when we were Galactic Gumbo. Okay.
0:54.9	You know, I don't know why we, you know, because, you know, that's the, I'm dumb, no middle.
1:00.8	I never know what the hell you're saying.
1:02.9	That's what you should be.
1:05.3	I love it.
1:07.1	But Gumbo kind of left menus.
1:09.5	You don't see them much anymore.
1:10.6	You don't see gumbo a lot.
1:12.9	I'm going to Norland's next week.
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