Cosmic Queries – Quantum Consciousness with Charles Liu

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🗓️ 13 February 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Is your consciousness a quantum phenomenon? Is the universe one predetermined block? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab bag questions about quantum theory, the cosmological constant, and retrocausality with astrophysicist Charles Liu.

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0:00.0	Harry Chuck, something cool always happens when we have our geek in chief.
0:03.4	Chuck Lou.
0:04.5	He's the best.
0:05.3	With his new book on quantum, people started asking about quantum physics.
0:08.6	My favorite was quantum consciousness.
0:10.7	Quantum consciousness.
0:11.5	And boy, did we bask in that.
0:13.4	Oh, yes.
0:14.0	Straight in the deep end.
0:15.1	Right to the deep end.
0:16.2	Some of us drowned.
0:19.2	Coming up on StarTalk.
0:22.6	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:25.3	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:31.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:35.4	This is StarTalk's special edition. Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist. And if a special edition, you know that means Gary O'Reilly's in the house. Gary, how you doing, man? I'm good, Neil. I'm good. It's cold, but I'm feeling okay. Oh, I'm sorry. It's colder than your UK roots would ever have been for you in this moment, for sure.
0:55.6	But we are getting the World Cup.
0:57.9	Yes.
0:58.8	And you used to play professional soccer.
1:01.6	Yes.
1:02.4	I'm interested.
1:04.2	Okay.
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