Cosmic Queries – The Experience of Time with Charles Liu

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Is our experience of time a result of our perpetual movement? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore spacetime, metaphysics, the Brachistochrone problem and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.

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0:00.0	Today on Start Talk Special Edition, we brought in our geek and chief, the one and only Charles
0:07.0	Lou.
0:08.0	We talk about all kinds of things like our experience with time relative to a beam of light.
0:16.2	We also talk about what our favorite objects were in Start Trek that came true.
0:22.2	What else?
0:23.2	We also wonder, what direction should you launch a rocket?
0:26.7	Is it straight up or is it sideways?
0:29.0	That and more coming up on Start Talk Special Edition.
0:35.0	Welcome to Start Talk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:43.3	Start Talk begins right now.
0:47.9	This is Start Talk Special Edition.
0:50.6	You'll digress Tyson here, you're a personal astrophysicist, and as always for these
0:55.6	editions, we got Gary, Riley, Gary, Neil, to be here again.
1:00.6	A former professional footballer and professional announcer, and thank you to the soccer
1:08.0	universe for lending you to us.
1:10.5	That's very kind of you.
1:12.0	Yeah, and we got Chuck Knife, Chuck, but always good to see you, man.
1:15.6	That's right.
1:16.6	And to the professional soccer universe, you're not getting the back.
1:20.7	We got him now.
1:21.7	Yes, suckers.
1:22.7	You lost.
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