The Limits of Knowing with Elise Crull

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🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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How do you know what you know? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice explore issues with quantum mechanics and objectivity, the history of physics, and how scientists ask questions on the edge of our understanding with philosopher of physics Elise Crull.

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0:00.0	Chuck, we got some more philosophy in the house.
0:02.4	Yes, along with physics.
0:05.0	Yes.
0:05.6	Yeah.
0:06.2	And they're the racist pieces of science.
0:09.1	They belong together.
0:10.8	Maybe physics and philosophy are entangled.
0:16.2	Ooh.
0:18.2	More on that coming up.
0:21.9	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:24.5	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:30.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:35.1	This is StarTalk.
0:37.6	Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist.
0:40.3	Got with me, Chuck Knight, baby.
0:41.6	Hey, hey, hey, Lord of Comedy.
0:43.7	You know, that sounds so...
0:45.6	It does sound...
0:46.4	But people call you Lord Nice.
0:49.1	So why not run its course?
0:51.3	Yeah, I am the...
0:52.0	Because it sounds like I should say, I am the Lord of Comedy.
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