Things You Thought You Knew – Quantum Cat

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you fall into a black hole? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice give us the step-by-step on spaghettification, explain Schrodinger's cat, and explore quantum tunnelling… Or do they?

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0:00.0	Coming up on StarTalk, it's another Things You Thought You knew episode.
0:05.7	This time, we bring to you a few fan favorites, death by Black Hole, Schrodinger's cat, and quantum tunneling.
0:15.7	Don't want to miss it.
0:18.7	Welcome to StarTalk.
0:21.3	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:27.3	StarTalk begins right now.
0:33.1	I want to describe what it's like to die as you fall into a black hole.
0:39.1	Now, are we recounting a personal experience here?
0:42.3	Perhaps that could be the reason for the delay in discussing this.
0:47.8	Are you sure you're ready for this after this harrowing experience?
0:53.3	One of the highest compliments I ever got was,
0:56.3	I was giving a tour of the newly built Hayden Planetarium,
0:59.9	newly renovated to Seinfeld, okay,
1:02.7	who lived across the street.
1:04.9	So he was a neighbor.
1:05.3	What's the deal with the lights?
1:07.9	Right, right.
1:08.3	So I described the big bank to him in the first few moments and in exquisite detail.
1:13.9	And he says, it sounds like you were there.
1:18.5	I thought, man, that's a high compliment.
1:21.1	I never forget that.
1:23.1	That's pretty funny.
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