Things You Thought You Knew – Sonic BOOM!

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Where does the wind come from? What is a sonic boom? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explain things you thought you knew about sonic booms, daily temperatures, and how wind works.

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0:00.0	Hello, StarTalkians. Neal here. Coming up, we have another Things You Thought You
0:05.2	You knew episode. This time, we're talking about sonic booms, day and night temperatures, and wind. Check it out.
0:15.7	Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:24.3	StarTalk begins right now.
0:29.0	I've come to shed some more light on that which is mysterious in this world.
0:35.1	Yes, yes.
0:36.3	The stuff you thought you knew, but you didn't know.
0:38.0	That's what you thought you knew.
0:38.8	So I just thought I'd talk about Sonic Booms.
0:53.3	Okay. What do you think of that? I love that. Nobody doesn't love a Sonic boom. Nobody doesn't love a Sonic boom. Yeah, that's one of the best, most popular video games. That Sonic. That Sonic. That Sonic, I tell you, that hedgehog is something else.
0:55.9	So we can talk about Sonic boom.
0:56.8	So here you go.
0:57.0	Ready?
0:54.5	So. Sonic. That Sonic, I tell you, that head talk here, something else. So we can talk about Sonic boom.
0:56.0	So here you go.
0:56.9	Ready?
0:57.9	So let's take an airplane.
1:00.0	That's a good choice here.
1:02.0	And generally, airplanes make noise.
1:05.2	And so you'll hear the noise and you'll look up and you see the plane coming.
1:09.8	Right.
1:10.3	And then receding. All right. The fact that you'll look up and you see the plane coming. Right. And then receding.
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