Time Travel at the Movies

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🗓️ 28 March 2013

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Travel back to the future for a discussion of time travel and the movies that depict such excellent adventures.

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.4	StarTalk begins right now.
0:16.4	This is StarTalk.
0:18.3	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist, and I also serve as director
0:23.6	of New York City's Hayden Planetarium.
0:25.8	Today is the second hour of our sci-fi movie show, and I'm joined by my comedian co-host,
0:31.8	Leanne Lorde.
0:32.8	I'm also happy to welcome back the bad astronomer, Phil Plate.
0:37.6	The topic today is time travel.
0:40.2	So let's just talk about time travel in the world of science, so what can you bring to
0:45.5	the table?
0:46.5	Well, it depends on what you mean by time travel.
0:48.4	I mean, traveling into the future.
0:49.7	What do you mean it depends on what you mean by time travel?
0:51.5	Well, which word did you not understand in that sense?
0:55.1	Well, there's a positive and negative, right?
0:57.7	We all travel in time.
0:59.1	We're going forward, you know, a minute every 60 seconds, so we're going into the future,
1:03.2	like it or not.
1:04.2	You're going to see it.
1:06.2	But you can travel.
1:07.2	But we're trapped in the present as we move to the future.
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