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Cosmic Queries: TV Sci-Fi with Bill Nye

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Nature, Nasa, Spacetime, Astronomer, Education, Quantum Physics, Physics, Multiverse, Space, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Scientist, Earth Science, Universe, Cosmos, Science, Astrophysics, Star Talk, Startalk, Climate Science, Astronomy, Astrophysicist

4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2017

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Who better to answer fan-submitted questions about science fiction on TV and in the movies than Bill Nye? Bill and Chuck Nice flip channels between “Star Trek,” “Star Wars,” “Lost in Space,” “Gilligan’s Island,” “Back to the Future,” and more. (Adult Language.) NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0

Welcome to Greetings Greetings greetings welcome to Star Talk

0:05.5

and the year I'm your host me and I here with a live new

0:10.0

to the start the world wide world Chuck nice

0:13.1

and this is the special all star edition of Chuck here's the interesting

0:16.6

I'm the all star I'm not I'm starring all

0:22.0

here it's good now it's really fun I really I really appreciate you guys

0:26.8

including me now this is a cosmic query yes it is yes I see you have stacks

0:32.3

of quirical queries yes I do from all over the inquiries interwebs

0:37.0

uh an electric thing the kids use their electric machines

0:41.5

you hear that things catching on yeah I don't know what's going on with that

0:45.1

cool thank you all for sending in questions Chuck let's read one let's get

0:48.5

right to it okay and um this is from Dan Gomez

0:55.1

Dan says what exactly is inside of a vacuum if not matter

1:01.6

then some sort of cosmic energy the fabric of reality well there's

1:07.6

there's energy passes through a vacuum right so we love that we're talking

1:12.0

light heat all these exciting things uh then that you ask a good question

1:17.5

uh you know people talk about space time using it as one word space time

1:22.8

and it's generally agreed that not only is the universe expanding but

1:26.9

space itself is expanding so most of space has what we reckon is no matter

1:33.7

nothing in it so perhaps the that any vacuum you have

1:38.8

is also expanding along with space if it's away from a gravity field or away from

1:42.8

a local gravity field okay maybe it's expanding and we just can't we can't

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