Cosmic Queries – Why Are We Here?

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Why does the universe exist? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice answer fan questions about black holes, wormholes, the expansion of the universe and more! What are our options to solve the crisis in cosmology?

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0:00.0	What I do every time I'm out and I have my laser, I flash it at a star that's in the night sky.
0:05.9	Like a pulse and then I turn it on so that there's a length of light so if you leave the light on for one second.
0:11.9	Right.
0:12.8	There's a beam that's 186,000 miles long.
0:16.8	Right.
0:17.9	Okay.
0:18.7	And so that is on its way to that to that star and maybe to a planet.
0:24.1	That is so cool.
0:25.7	Yeah, that is so cool.
0:26.7	It's my space graffiti.
0:28.9	There you go.
0:29.6	I'd say Newell is here.
0:32.7	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:35.4	You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:41.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:45.2	This is Star Talk, Cosmic Queries, fan favorite Cosmic Queries.
0:50.0	And this is the grab bag edition.
0:51.8	Chuck, you ready for it?
0:53.1	Always loving a grab bag.
0:55.0	Yeah.
0:55.6	Yeah, the grab bags are fun because they're just like it's in whatever.
0:58.7	They just dance around.
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