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Things You Thought You Knew – What Are Wormholes?

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Star Talk, Nature, Scientist, Education, Astronomy, Astronomer, Physics, Earth Science, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Startalk, Cosmos, Science, Spacetime, Universe, Astrophysics, Astrophysicist, Quantum Physics, Space, Climate Science, Multiverse, Nasa

4.614.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What is a wormhole, really? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore things you thought you knew about the physics of falling objects, white noise, and wormholes. Why do things break when they fall?

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0:00.0

Welcome to Star Talk.

0:04.0

You're a place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

0:10.0

Star Talk begins right now.

0:14.0

This is Star Talk.

0:16.0

This is a things you thought you knew, edition.

0:20.0

And that means it's just going to be me and Chuck for this whole episode.

0:24.0

Can you handle it, Chuck? No!

0:27.0

I'm already. I'm overwhelmed.

0:29.0

I already know that I don't know.

0:32.0

Oh, okay.

0:34.0

There's no thinking. There's no thinking that I know.

0:37.0

Okay, so we're going to...

0:39.0

Let's first take on the topic that's so simple.

0:44.0

Why do things break when they fall?

0:46.0

What do you think of that?

0:48.0

See, but this is this is what I've learned from things you thought you knew.

0:54.0

There are times when in the past a full disclosure where you have said,

1:01.0

so we're going to talk about floating, things that float.

1:06.0

And in my head, I will say, not audible, of course.

1:11.0

But I will say, Neil has lost his damn mind.

1:17.0

He was to sit here and waste people time.

1:23.0

He was talking about what's up in my foot.

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