Superhero Science: StarTalk Live! With Charles Liu

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🗓️ 14 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Why can’t we run through walls if atoms are mostly empty space? Neil deGrasse Tyson, Chuck Nice, Gary O’Reilly, and astrophysicist Charles Liu explore force fields, warp drive, invisibility, and quantum physics behind superhero powers.

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0:00.0	Next up on StarTalk, we've got a StarTalk special edition filmed live at Guild Hall.
0:06.6	We have our geek and chief, Charles Liu, with us.
0:10.2	We needed him for this one because we explore the role of the quantum
0:14.3	and other exotic scientific elements that have appeared in the powers of superheroes coming right up welcome to star talk
0:27.3	your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide star talk begins right now.
0:40.6	Welcome.
0:47.8	This is a live recording of this StarTalk podcast here in East Hampton in Guildhall.
0:49.6	Thanks for coming out on a Sunday night.
0:53.3	Tonight, you probably came and didn't know what the subject would be.
0:54.0	Is that correct?
0:57.3	So I feel the love, because you come no matter what.
0:58.3	That's a good fact.
1:04.6	The subject tonight is superhero science.
1:06.0	Ooh.
1:11.7	And we got the expertise for that because we found it.
1:15.2	But let me introduce the rest of our panel up here.
1:17.9	First of all, Gary O'Reilly, Gary, come on out.
1:19.0	Gary.
1:22.5	Thank you.
1:23.1	Gary.
1:24.7	Former soccer pro.
1:28.5	There's a wiki page on him, actually. You're going to go there again?
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