Cosmic Queries – Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking with Charles Liu

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🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Does the universe need observers to exist? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore questions about entropy, spontaneous symmetry breaking, spectroscopy and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.

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0:00.0	Quantum paradoxes.
0:02.0	Information and entropy.
0:04.0	Spice dust.
0:05.2	All of that and more on StarTalk's special edition Cosmic Queries with our one and only geek
0:11.0	and chief at the helm, Charles Liu, coming right up.
0:15.7	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:18.3	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:24.2	StarTalk begins right now.
0:28.4	This is StarTalk's special edition.
0:31.5	We're doing a Cosmic Queries grab bag.
0:34.8	Normally you see these over on our flagship star talk show, but we've got with us,
0:42.8	not only, of course, Gary O'Reilly, Gary. Hey, Neil. And of course, Chuck Nice. Hey, hey. But the only way
0:49.8	this becomes a party is when we bring in our geek and chief. Charles Lou. Charles, how you doing,
0:56.3	man? Hey, hey, it is a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much as always. All right. All right.
1:02.2	Charles is a professor of astronomy. Is that the department? What's the name of the department,
1:08.0	Charles? Department is physics and astronomy.
1:10.7	Physics and astronomy. College of Staten Island. College of the department, Charles? Department is physics and astronomy. Physics and astronomy.
1:11.3	College of Staten Island.
1:12.6	College of the City University System of New York, a longtime friend.
1:16.7	Many people don't know that Charles co-wrote the exhibit copy that lives in the
1:22.5	Rural Center for Earth and Space.
1:24.6	He was with us at the birth of the whole facility.
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