StarTalk Live! LIGO and the Black Hole Blues (Part 1)

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🗓️ 29 July 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Everything you ever wanted to know about gravitational waves, explained by Neil Tyson, Eugene Mirman, cosmologist Dr. Janna Levin, LIGO astrophysicist Dr. Nergis Mavalvala, and comedian Michael Showalter. Recorded live at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, NJ.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:05.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.6	StarTalk begins right now.
0:15.3	Welcome to StarTalk Live.
0:27.7	I'm Eugene Merman.
0:29.1	It is my great pleasure to bring on the amazing, the wonderful Neil de Graz Tyson.
0:36.1	Welcome to StarTalk Live.
0:49.6	Tonight's topic is everything you ever wanted to know and perhaps never wanted to know
0:57.0	about gravitational waves moving through the universe, washing over Earth itself.
1:08.7	Where they come from, how do we detect them, who's doing the detecting, and what is the
1:12.2	future of that exercise.
1:14.8	And I have experts this evening to help us through.
1:20.4	Give a nice warm New Jersey welcome to Jan 11.
1:25.7	Jan 11, come on out.
1:26.7	Jan 11.
1:27.7	Where should there she goes, Jan?
1:30.7	How you doing?
1:32.5	She's professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College and just came out with a book
1:37.4	all about black holes.
1:41.0	Black hole, but she's supposed to say in a DJ voice.
1:43.2	Black hole blues and other songs from outer space.
1:49.2	This is the black hole blues and other songs from outer space.
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