Cosmic Queries – The Shape of the Universe with Delilah Gates

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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What is the shape of spacetime? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice discover the structure of the universe, spacetime geometry, and relativity with theoretical physicist at Princeton Gravity Initiative, Delilah Gates.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Stark Talk Cosmic Queries, I've got Chuck Nice with me and we have as our guest
0:06.1	theoretical physicist
0:07.6	Delilah Gates and she's an expert on
0:10.2	Everything's spacetime geometry. We're gonna learn what that is
0:14.4	We're gonna find out if it is spherical universe whether we can see the back of the head of our own Milky Way
0:21.2	Does the rest of the universe abide by Newton's laws or Einstein's laws? Is the universe curved and
0:28.1	Is there a center of the universe next on Stark Talk?
0:35.0	Welcome to Stark Talk
0:37.8	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide
0:43.4	Stark Talk begins right now
0:47.4	This is Stark Talk Cosmic Queries edition. I got Chuck Nice with me to help me out here Chuck. How you doing man?
0:53.7	A Neil what's happening? All right. All right. This is a cosmic queries on
0:59.9	gravity and spacetime geometry
1:02.9	What do you think? Oh my I think you know, why aren't we being a little you know?
1:07.7	You know, we really should be as elementary as possible
1:12.2	You know just just basics get the basics out there
1:15.2	We need to get these basics out of the way and I think this is a great time to do it, you know
1:20.7	Yeah, so no, no, yeah, you know, not everybody. Yeah, go ahead
1:25.7	Yeah, yeah, so
1:27.8	Whatever I know about this is not enough to do a whole show on it and so we got to get we had to we we've we found
1:34.9	One of the world's experts on this subject and she's with us today
1:39.4	Delilah Gates Delilah welcome to Stark Talk. How do you think for having me?
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