Things You Thought You Knew – The Geometric Universe

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🗓️ 9 April 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

What is the Sun’s ecliptic? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down the things you thought you knew about spheres in the universe, navigating the sky, and taking spacecraft out of orbit.

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0:00.0	E equals M, C, squared.
0:02.0	Squaring it.
0:04.0	Right.
0:05.0	And what's on the other side of the equation?
0:06.0	Energy.
0:07.0	E.
0:08.0	So the energy goes as the velocity squared.
0:10.0	Look at that.
0:11.0	And that's just...
0:12.0	You've known that from birth.
0:12.6	Didn't even know it.
0:13.6	You didn't even know I didn't even know I knew that.
0:16.1	That's right.
0:17.1	There you go.
0:18.1	That's awesome.
0:20.1	Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:27.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:33.3	Check I got another one. Okay. What shape is earth?
0:37.3	Oh, you know, sounds like a trick question.
0:41.0	No, no, it's not. Just what just what your first... Well I'm looking around your office and I'm going to say round.
0:46.8	Round because there's a lot of globes in there's a lot of round stuff. A lot of round stuff. Round. In fact office, nothing is more than arms reach away.
0:56.0	Right.
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