Cosmic Queries – Proving Einstein Right

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Was Albert Einstein right? Neil deGrasse Tyson, comic co-host Chuck Nice, and theoretical physicist Jim Gates, PhD, investigate general relativity, special relativity, the process of proving equations right, and answer fan-submitted Cosmic Queries!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:16.0	This is Star Talk.
0:18.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:22.0	And today's topic is proving Einstein right.
0:27.0	Chuck, I needed you for this one because...
0:29.0	Yeah, you're a man. You're a man.
0:31.0	I don't know how you need me because I never knew Einstein was wrong.
0:36.0	So I'm trying to figure out...
0:39.0	Where's the controversy?
0:41.0	Where's the controversy?
0:43.0	Well, to talk about that controversy, I'm bringing a friend and long time colleague Jim Gates.
0:49.0	Jim, welcome to Star Talk.
0:51.0	Well, Neil, it's good to be back at the presence of a star.
0:54.0	No, James, please.
0:58.0	It's okay. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate you.
1:01.0	Oh, believe what? That one at that.
1:06.0	So Jim, you've been at this for a long time.
1:10.0	Well, you've been an Einstein fan, for sure, but a theoretical physicist.
1:13.0	And your director for the Center for Theoretical Physics at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
1:19.0	And that's a title hungover than you'd been doing that?
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