StarTalk Live! LIGO and the Black Hole Blues (Part 2)

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🗓️ 5 August 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The conclusion of our show about the discovery of gravitational waves, featuring Neil Tyson, Eugene Mirman, cosmologist Janna Levin, LIGO astrophysicist Nergis Mavalvala, and Michael Showalter. Recorded live at the Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank, NJ.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	The Alive at the Count Basie Theater, New Jersey!
0:24.0	This is Star Talk.
0:31.0	I've got Jan 11, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Columbia University and Barnard College.
0:37.0	Did I get that right?
0:38.0	Yeah, sounds good.
0:39.0	You got it.
0:40.0	We have Nurgis Mavala.
0:43.0	I'm calling like how you're getting ready.
0:48.0	She's Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and she is one of the world's experts on the detection of gravitational waves.
0:56.0	And who do you have with us here?
0:58.0	Me.
0:59.0	Yeah.
1:00.0	I'm Eugene.
1:03.0	Eugene Merman.
1:04.0	Michael Choalter.
1:06.0	Michael Choalter, thanks for being here.
1:10.0	Michael, are you directing a movie now?
1:12.0	Yes, I have a movie that's in the theaters as we speak.
1:15.0	Hello, my name is Doris with Sally Field.
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