Coming up on this episode of StarTalk, we dig into our archives and find the physics all around us.

We learn about the periodic table of elements, the asymmetries in nature, solar energy, battery technology, Maxwell's equations, and more.

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Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. StarTalk begins right now.Talk. I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

I hail from the American Museum of Natural History, right here in New York City, where I serve as director of the Hayden Planetarium.

And today, we've got a Cosmic Queries edition of Star Talk with my co-host, Chuck Nice.

Hey, Neil.

Chuck, always good to have you here. Good to be here.

Tweeting at Chuck Nice Comic.

Yes, and I am the director of parts of my home on certain days of the week.

Even then, only in certain hours.

Certain hours of certain days.

That's all I get.

So I think today is the topic is the physics of everyday life.

Yes. Yeah, love me some physics of everyday life. I know you do. Oh, man. I've been around you long

enough to actually hear you speak on the physics of everyday life, whether I want you to or not.

You know what's good about learning physics? Yes. It's not a satchel effect. That's right.

To be regurgitated. It is an understanding of the operations of nature. That's great. I was about

to say it is actually the understanding of your own experiences. Yes. That or even things that are not

your experience, things that transcend your experience. True. Physics is there waiting for you. Yeah, yeah, that's what makes it so cool. I mean, there's... Yeah, but what it means is you don't have to learn every single example of how physics manifests in the universe. Well, thank God. You can learn the foundational things and then apply that knowledge to what you see. Yeah. So that's the beauty of it.

And that's why physics books are not the fattest books on the shelf.

Accounting books are fatter than the complete works of physics.

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