Cosmic Queries – The Fabric of Spacetime

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Is it time to rethink string theory? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore a mix of questions about the fundamental properties of the universe, particles, the speed of light and more!

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0:00.0	I just love that the neutrino is like Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible.
0:05.0	It leaves the Sun, and then it gets to Earth and it's just like,
0:07.8	boom, boom, boom.
0:09.2	It pulls its face off like it was me, all alone.
0:12.5	But you can't touch me.
0:15.1	I don't.
0:16.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:20.4	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:25.4	Star Talk begins right now.
0:29.0	This is Star Talk.
0:33.2	Neil deGrasse Tyson here, your personal astrophysicist.
0:36.4	Today we're going to do a cosmic queries grab bag edition.
0:41.1	So, Chuck, what does that even mean?
0:43.4	Well, you know what it means.
0:44.5	It means that anything the people want to know,
0:47.2	we just throw it in a bag and they get a chance to do it.
0:50.2	We used to call it Galactic Gumbo.
0:52.6	No, don't.
0:53.6	That don't do.
0:55.6	A gumbo.
0:57.8	I mean, a gumbo in a wall, but last I had it,
0:59.4	yeah, it did kind of have pretty much everything in it.
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