Cosmic Queries – Grabby Aliens with Charles Liu

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🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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What would happen if the speed of light were infinite? Neil deGrasse Tyson, joined by co-hosts Chuck Nice, Gary O’Reilly, and astrophysicist Charles Liu, answers questions about quantum entanglement, qubits, higher dimensions, grabby aliens, and more!

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0:00.0	Guy, you jumped into quantum soup on this one.
0:02.0	We did.
0:03.0	Add some flavor to it.
0:04.0	Add some flavor.
0:05.0	And I'd learn a little more.
0:06.0	You know, we had our geek and chief with us.
0:08.0	Yes.
0:09.0	We've always learned something we got the geek in chief.
0:10.0	I learned that it's delicious with crackers.
0:13.0	Coming up on special edition.
0:17.0	Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:26.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:30.6	This is StarTalk's special edition.
0:33.6	Neil deGrasse Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist, and it being special edition means we got Gary O'Reilly. Gary, in the house.
0:41.6	Hey, S. In the house.
0:43.2	In the house.
0:44.5	Former soccer pro.
0:46.1	Love your Wiki page with your sexy legs.
0:49.0	You're looking too much. Stop it.
0:52.7	Excellent.
0:53.5	Chuck, nice. Always, man. Hey, what's happening, guys? Yeah, all right. So we brought in our geek and chief for this. A returning hero. A returning. Charles Lou, Charles, welcome back. Thank you so much. You've got your own podcast. Yes. The Luna. The universe. That's clever.
1:11.5	That's clever.
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