Cosmic Queries – LIGO, Light, & Lycanthropy

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🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Are all galaxies redshifting away? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Negin Farsad tackle a grab bag of fan questions covering cosmic infrastructure, redshift, werewolves, gravitational waves, and the nature of time itself.

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0:00.0	Nguine, this round had a lot of deep philosophy in it.
0:03.0	Oh, people got juicy.
0:05.0	Juicy about time and space and dimensions.
0:09.0	And just things that don't exist and maybe never will, or will they?
0:15.0	All that and more coming up on StarTalk's Cosmic Queries, the Grab Bag.
0:29.1	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:32.9	StarTalk begins right now.
0:38.8	This is StarTalk.
0:42.6	We're going to do a Cosmic Queries grab bag edition.
0:47.5	And today I've got with me as my co-host, Nagine Fasad, Nagim.
0:48.5	Hello.
0:49.8	Welcome back.
0:50.7	Oh, my God.
0:52.0	So excited to be here.
0:54.4	So excited to launch myself into space.
0:55.2	Yes.
0:56.1	Yes.
1:01.1	And you've got all the questions from our Patreon supporters.
1:07.3	Oh, by the way, just reading through these questions, I have to say, I feel so much better about humanity.
1:12.7	There are some extraordinarily smart people out there. You don't get this, that, you don't know that in your regular life until you... So you're saying I'm biased into
1:16.4	thinking the world is smarter than it actually is because of our sandbase. Because these are not
1:20.7	the kinds of things I get from my fans. Just so we're clear. Maybe there'll be some spillage
	...

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