Cosmic Queries – Quantum & Aliens with Charles Liu

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Are we thinking about the fundamentals of the universe wrong? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab bag questions about aliens, gravitons, and the big unknowns with astrophysicist Charles Liu.

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0:00.0	Up next, StarTalk's special edition.
0:03.0	I've got Chuck Nice, I've got Gary O'Reilly, and our geek and chief, Charles Liu,
0:09.2	to help us decode some of the deepest questions asked by our Patreon members,
0:14.8	including, for example, are there any questions that astrophysicists think about
0:19.1	that we don't have an answer to yet?
0:21.3	Well, what's up with that?
0:22.8	Also, what are the terrestrials, extraterrestrials having conversations with each other?
0:30.0	Can we decode it?
0:31.6	Is there some special encryption that they're using that we will never know how to break into it?
0:38.7	We're going to learn about that.
0:40.0	Also, a little bit about quantum field theory.
0:42.6	What is it? Why does it matter?
0:44.5	Coming up on StarTalk.
0:46.7	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:51.3	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:57.0	StarTalk begins right now.
1:02.3	This is StarTalk's special edition.
1:05.1	And you know what that means?
1:06.2	We got Chuck Nice, Chuck.
1:08.0	Yes.
1:08.5	Hey, hey, hey.
1:09.6	Got Gary O'Reilly?
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