Cosmic Queries – Pure Spacetime

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4.6 • 14.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Is there no single shared "now" for everyone in the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Paul Mecurio dive into another grab bag of fan questions about superconducting asteroids, what memories are made of, and if you could ever experience pure unwarped spacetime.

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0:00.0	Paul, that was a good set of questions.
0:02.7	Oh, my gosh.
0:03.8	It's amazing.
0:04.8	We learned a lot about sponges and webs and all sorts of things.
0:10.6	Coming up, another installment of Cosmic Query's Grab Bag edition.
0:17.6	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:20.2	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:25.9	StarTalk begins right now.
0:33.1	This is StarTalk, Cosmic Queries Edition.
0:37.8	This time I got Paul McCurio.
0:39.3	Paul, welcome back, dude.
0:41.0	All right, good to see you again.
0:42.2	Neil.
0:42.6	How are you, buddy?
0:43.4	All right.
0:44.0	Paul, at some point, somebody christened you baron, Paul McCurio.
0:49.3	That is true.
0:50.3	And we had a ceremony, which was quite lovely in your office if you remember you
0:55.9	did we use my my my my caliber store yes we did the whole thing yeah i still would for some
1:02.4	reason there's no red carpet here but you know and are you you still have your traveling show
1:07.2	permission to speak i do yeah there's a theater show, right? It's a, it's a wagon
1:12.5	and I sell medicines. I'm a medicine man now because I'm going to be out of a job at the late show.
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