Einstein’s Crumbs with Janna Levin

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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How did Einstein’s work influence the world we know today? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Harrison Greenbaum team up with astrophysicist Janna Levin, PhD, to explore Einstein’s physics and its resulting discoveries, from Walmart laser pointers to black holes and wormholes.

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0:00.0	So, Harrison, if you loved Einstein before, how do you love a man now?
0:03.0	Oh, my gosh, so much. And I already loved him. I had a t-shirt when I was a kid of Albert Einstein on a surfboard.
0:07.5	So you were a geek kid.
0:08.6	Oh, 100%.
0:09.4	And was that like a backhanded reference to gravitational waves?
0:12.0	I think I didn't know that at the time, but now I do. Stein's smorgasbord left crumbs for the rest of us to discover and win Nobel Prizes on.
0:23.9	Oh my gosh, all that and more coming up on StarTalk.
0:28.9	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:31.6	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:37.5	StarTalk begins right now.
0:42.0	This is StarTalk.
0:44.2	Neil DeGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:47.3	Got with me with my co-host, Harrison Greenbound.
0:49.2	Harrison, how you doing, dude?
0:50.9	Good to be here.
0:51.7	All right.
0:52.1	Yeah, I'm excited.
0:52.9	And not your first Star Talk rodeo.
0:55.4	Nope, not at all.
0:56.1	All right.
0:56.8	Maybe it would be my first rodeo.
0:57.9	I've never done a rodeo.
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