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Our Burning Questions – Free Will Emergence

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

4.614.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What’s the deal with the strong nuclear force? Neil deGrasse Tyson answers the burning questions Chuck Nice, Gary O’Reilly, and the StarTalk Team have been saving all year about gravity as a force, cosmic rays, free will, emergence, and how physicists decide which equations to apply.

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0:00.0

Gary, I love this when you compile the questions of our people.

0:03.0

It's easy to do because we have so much depth of curiosity within our StarTalk group.

0:08.0

And that's a beautiful fact.

0:10.0

It is. And it's time at the end of the year to air them out.

0:13.0

Yeah. And we get to ask the questions and you don't.

0:16.0

So there we go.

0:18.0

Burning Questions. All from in-house coming right up.

0:24.0

Welcome to StarTalk.

0:26.6

Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

0:32.6

StarTalk begins right now.

0:36.9

This is StarTalk's special edition, and I have no idea what we're doing today, but Gary knows.

0:43.8

Gary.

0:44.7

Oh, you've put the burden on the responsibility upon me.

0:48.3

They just told me to show up for a special edition.

0:50.9

All right, so every year, we sit patiently through hundreds of fans' questions,

0:55.8

and thank you so much. But now, after a year of good behavior, we get to ask ours. So I suppose

1:00.9

it's that time of the year when there's naughty and there's nice. So I guess I'll be nice.

1:06.4

And I'll be naughty. How about that? So this is a third time apparently. I know. It's become a tradition, yes.

1:12.6

In the making.

1:14.6

This one is the charm.

1:16.6

Founded in 2023.

1:18.6

Okay.

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