StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries - The Deep Part II
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- On this episode of StarTalk Radio, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice are back exploring the depths of the cosmos in a follow-up to Cosmic Queries - The Deep. In this second part, we get even deeper and go even further into the mysteries of the universe.
We start with the age-old question: which came first, the chicken or the egg? Neil gives us the definitive answer. But then we expand the question even further. Which came first: space itself or the Big Bang? This inspires Chuck to come up with a word to describe “something that is nothing”. You’ll hear about the history of the multiverse theory. Neil tells us why Einstein’s general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics don’t “get along”.
We explore the rules of quantum mechanics. Find out if light itself can get spaghettified at the event horizon of a black hole. We discuss a simulation universe. And, if we are in a simulation universe, how would you explain the weather? Discover why everything in the universe is sphere-shaped and curvy. We ponder if the Big Bang created life itself. Neil explains why we shouldn’t look for life near stars and on planets that were around towards the beginning of the universe.
We discuss dark matter. Neil gives us his thoughts on why it should be renamed to dark gravity. You’ll also hear why dark matter is still the longest unsolved mystery in modern astrophysics. We explore the nature of sunlight and how it travels to the Earth, the Moon, and how it interacts with both. All that, plus, find out why time stops at the speed of light.
This episode originally aired on Jan 20, 2020.
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The best way to end the day:
Go home and watch star talk.
For extra fun- take a shot every time Neil says “Soooo”
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Ok the theory is something came from nothing and so everthing now exists. "Given". My question is in order to have an explosion thier myst be fuel , source, and all important air. With out these three things thier can be mo fire no explosion/ implosion. Please explain.
Charles Emery interesting
Love you man. That's the best advice.
@@charlesemery615 In the "nothingness" of space, particles can pop into and out of existence (proven in the quantum world). I understand what you're saying though, maybe there was no space to begin with (?)
I recommend you read about the early universe, before atomic particles like protons, neutrons and electrons formed. The energy/plasma at that early time could have created everything we see (and don't see) today. Remember ENERGY can be turned into MATTER and MATTER can be turned into ENERGY.
One of the best decisions I ever made was changing my music playlist in my car to StarTalk Podcasts.
Indeed. I´m using startalk as podcast now. And the great thing is i can go back years and listen because the science is still relevant :) And i love these 2 goofballs, always lifts my spirit
Excellent ! I laugh so hard sometimes ... Not sure how safe I would be !
@@Kingofgrowers This is so true lololol
Chuck with Neil is like a kid with his favorite uncle...
Like morty with his grandpa Rick
And Chuck is a lot smarter than he lets on.
@@efrancis19 Exactly. Now, I can only watch this show when he is the co-host. He really does a great job keeping it light and "selling" the answers.
I love their dynamic
Show me where Neil touched you....
Thanks!
there's an alternate reality where Mike Tyson is interviewing Chuck Mean
up you go.....
Good one
How bout Neil Tyson the grass interviewing Chunk Gneiss?
@@42Mrgreenman How about a fat bag a grass and chunky brownies?
A clean shaven version of Chuck named Chuck Mean who's ironically mean. That would have to be a split long before he was born to account for the last name, but still.
The ed Harris movie is "the abyss" not "the deep"
Thanks
The deep started Jacqueline bisset and Nick nolte
Is the deep about sharks?
@@Anti-HyperLinkLPs The Deep is an old movie about treasure hunters that find morphine in the bermuda triangle. No, I'm not crazy. Look it up. I didn't even mention the black magic-wielding druglord. That would be crazy...crazy like a fox because that's also in the movie.
Love that movie!
i'm glad I live in the same time period as these two
or do you? hmmmmm.....
Wow, awesome. Words fail me here. I always thought that when words fail music speaks but I have no idea what song would do this moment justice. Two of my favorite humans, Mr Tyson and Mr Freeman and here I am months later feeling like I'm sharing the experience. Just awesome.
Well said, Mr. Mreeman.
Chuck Nice is funny, but I really like the episodes where he shows how smart and well-read he also is!
That's what makes me know he just makes this up.😊
I think its pretty funny how ol chucky starts to leak out his intellect and interest and shows hes pretty damn smart and the minute he does he has to be reminded of his profession. Some of the smartest people dont have PHD's. But it is what it is i guess.
watching Neil and Chuck histarically laugh about "black gravity" is the highight of my day.
Chuck is a natural comedian isn't he. Cracks me up every show and love it when Neil plays the straight guy.
I just love having a personal physicist!
And it gets to be Neil deGrasse Tyson!
Ah to serve man.
Oh, man, you're killing me with your "black gravity" ...... I spilled all my coffee all over the desk because of you two.
I tried to go to bed at a decent time tonight. (7pm central) now I'm binge watching space stuff.
That's my nightly routine lol
Mr. Veydin what time do you wake up?
I suffer from this exact same problem every night
Trying to cut back on social media and TH-cam. It’s challenging but one day it will work lol. Daily decrease 👍
Welp when trying to sleep early...usually 3 am.
“Black gravity” - that was a mic drop moment, love you guys!!!
This is the startalk that I love
True that!.....notice they forgot to add commercials in the "breaks"? Its just black sceen for a few seconds instead of the Grammerly and Patreon commercials
Me too
Me too!!
Janusha which is most people
Janusha also you mean "lite"
The egg came first.
Now I can die in peace.
No the single celled organism came first
William Manis no the earth came first. Keep it going:)
Joey Pardo no, the sun came first
No the Milky Way came first
@Tom Mears Still wrong. In fact what was there first is the big nothingness so to speak. After that stopped being this big nothingness. This is called the big bang as we all know. If we look at the big bang as a "thing" then we also have to accept the nothingness as a thing. Before we started existence as we know it right as we are now with everything that is in it there was nothing. A "state" that changed to being something cause by the big bang. But before that nothingness is truly nothing. Begs the question. Since there is nothing to have caused it... How did that big bang occure. An explosion as we know it needs chemicals reacting to each other to happen. So those had to be there as well to cause the big bang. Theoretically. But that is a question for another day!
8:40: "We should do a thing on my office"
Yes please! I would love to see Neil show off all the random cool stuff he has in the office and explain what it is, where he got it, what it means to him, etc.
he catches that Yoda soup well
i'd have probably dropped it
i saw one where he did a little history of the star talk show and who is involved.. that was interesting
I rewatched 33:48 joke so many times. These two are so refreshing.
Neil & Chuck. You got my son interested in astrophysics! We love watching StarTalk together. Can't wait to see what his curiosity will manifest. THANK YOU! 😊
That was really exceptional. Man I wish could meet deGraase in person. Always learn something here to inspire my students in my country to be astrophysicist and make us humans proud.
You know this episode is gonna be good when chuck has a existential crisis 5 minutes in
I'm going through a rough time mentally. Reading your books and watching your lectures and interviews helps me ease my mind I always admire your work and your approach to teaching the universe. And what's more interesting, by teaching and by communicating the universe you also helping us to think properly and get rid of bias. Can you say the purpose of science is not to answer questions, but to keep making them? Thank you for bringing science to everyone.
Ps: I bought the book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry. And you should clarify that the book is for people who actually have an understanding Astrophysics but in a hurry. Not people like me. Lol!
I cant wait for The Deep: The Trilogy!
Where they answer, "What's the negative of speed?"
This video made my scientific life, I've been telling people for years that dark energy is a form of gravity from the interactions they use to measure it. Thank you, I play with thoughts of physics for fun all the time. This really helps me feel great about this unusual hobbie. Lol ive never read a book on physics or taken a class on it. But from watching and listening to the greats like Mr. Tyson, Mr. Hawkins, Mr Sagan and as many other as I can ive developed a deep understanding of the interaction of energy and matter and just find it so endlessly fascinating. Please keep making this program, I found this by trying to find a lecture or symposium peice from Mr. Tyson and discovered this amazing show. I don't have social media and use TH-cam for music, but I listen to at least 1 episodes a day well im processing things at work. Thank you for your contributions to science both know and classified. And having Chuck is amazing as well because his intellectual comedy make the entire thing more stimulating, tue gravity between the two of you make you greater force for spreading knowledge across our planet.
The movie was ‘The Abyss’.
Yes, thank you. The Deep was a horror movie.
Omg I had forgotten about "The Abyss" one of the best movies from my childhood. Thank you for saying that.
Yes
Yep, the Deep starred Jacqueline Bisset and it was about recovering drugs in the Caribbean IRC.
came to say this. also still love the movie. it holds up pretty good still too from 89
Dr Tyson and Chuck have the best chemistry together. What a pleasure listening and learning from them both.
Startalk: Watch how Neil DeGrasse Tyson gives a great answer to a question and Chuck Nice gives the question the credit
"Black Gravity" ??? HAHahahHHAAH - That was good.
they'd shoot it first THEN discover it's origin
Thanks Neil & Chuk for this awesome and fun cosmic moments! Greetings from Spain! I was in the Hayden Planetarium this January and it was awesome, by the way :D
Awesome show once again guys! The fact that photons don't experience time blew my mind apart!
It's cool to see how Chuck has become more comfortable with the physical and philosophical topics over time to where he can really integrate his comedic talent into the show now
This is without doubt the best science broadcasting today! Love me some Neil and Chuck.
Is it just me or does it seem that Chuck hs gotten a lot smarter with his reply’s. The fact that he is grasping the concepts makes it much more enjoyable to watch.
I wish I could be in that room with them. They truly are wise, humble, and properly humorous.
He just explained the big bang, the meaning of nothingness, and dimensionality, and even managed to remember that john guy's name.
I cant even remember my own name sometimes
Big Bang still a theory and it’s not proven that’s his imagination how it all started
@@Vegitobluuuuu lol
are you okay, Jimmy?
Dimensionality?
And also that the egg came first
That last bit about photons not experiencing time completely blew my mind just now.
Chuck’s reaction is epic
6:07
Chuck: (As excitingly as possible) That's Craaaazyyyy!!!
Neil: (As casually as possible) That's Dimensionality.
I really, REALLY hope, that there'll be a Star Talk The Deep Part III, IV , V and so and so forth....we all need more Neil and Chuck!!
Being 51 now, I loved history, geography and universe classes back in school, still do....thanks for making that wee boy inside me smile, because he's grinning from ear to ear, learning!!
I'm gonna spend this weekend watching this channels videos....
I genuinely enjoy these videos. Thank you for making space and the universe so interesting.
I can't afford to be a Patreon, but I gladly disable my ad-blocker and never skip ads on this channel.
I simply love this show. Also, it’s pretty obvious how much Chuck have learnt over the course of time he’s co-hosting this show. NICE!!!
everytime i watch an episode of star talk with chuck n neil i always get the impression they just smoked a joint. They are so chill and halarious i always have a good time watching episodes
Darkseid is. They are stoned lol for sure.
Best show ever. I can't believe how much info gets crammed into my brain. Plus the reactions are brilliant.
One of the best episodes!!!! Thanks for teaching us so much about the universe!!!
As soon as Neil said, "at the speed of light, time stops." My video paused and youtube closed out. Crazy.
Watch the vsauce video about time travel
It touches on the same concept but goes deeper
39:22 this exploded my mind🤯
Atul Thakur my brain 🧠 already Big Banged 💥 in the first minutes 😂
reality is stranger than fiction
Finding StarTalk this year is the only positive aspect of 2020. Keep it up you two!
This is fun to watch! Oh! I just wish all teachers and professors can make a lesson as fun as this.
i ran the transcript from Chuck-ese to English
Chuck: "Absolutely!"
English: "I have no idea what that means!"
😂
You guys should do a show where Neil and Chuck put together a Lego Saturn 5 while talking about Apollo's or whatever.
Chuck and Dr Tyson need to get back together in the office. This episode was so much fun. I haven’t laughed out loud over anything in a long time. Thank you guys for making learning fun.
Dude the last point he made, it just blew my pants off!!!
Luis Lopez I’m scratching my head asking the same question lol.
@@stevenhossfeld9324 Me too haha. There is no concept of time at that speed, so a photon will not even experience time; you know what I mean? The question how long did it took me to get here has no meaning at that speed. For humans however, we will never reach the speed of light, because it requires matter to become energy (E = mc^2) and only then the concept of time is gone. Humans will maybe get near the speed of light and therefore your clock keeps ticking at a normal rate in your own point of reference (inertial system).
I've been waiting for him to answer that question for a couple of years. They will bring up the topic of the speed of light and how time has no bearing on the particles but I always figured a star 1 billion light years away meant the particle still would have an inkling of some passage of time. Guess NOT.
Tinus hey man sorry I honestly didn’t think anyone would answer that question for me. I completely understand what you are saying actually and thank you for that
I LOVE BOTH OF YOU! Eclipse 2017 I saw the totality from my farm.... I will never forget that day! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!!!!
Chuck just knocked it out of the park this episode - had me laughing. Great work, Neil and Chuck!
I always love seeing new stuff from StarTalk. I love you Neil and Chuck is just a great counterpart for you. It's all I love combined: Physics, jokes and laughter.
32:45 I literally watched it 1000 times 😂😂😂
5:22
Neil: "Chuck..."
Chuck: "... Nice"
Me: "Very nice"
Have you seen the show "the expanse" on Amazon prime? Seems to be pretty legit when it comes to cosmos correctness? Lol would love to hear your opinion on the next star talk.
Havent seen it
Totally! I've googled some time ago "deGrasse Tyson AND the expanse" exactly to see whether he ever expressed his opinion on it! I love the expanse, and it's so well done that it was treated also in an article on Science.
@@exoplanets gotta check it out. The ladies hair is floating all around when her ship has no power lol and they show how people can walk on the ships with these boots everyone has on. It's pretty cool. Watching Neil made me even give it a chance. 4 seasons too!! Lol
All science speakers hail that show. It's just so very correct scientifically
Awesome show. Glad Amazon picked it up
More The Deep episodes please! :D
Probably the best episode of StartTalk yet!!!! The last bit about photon blew me mind
Love you, Gentlemen. Make America smart, again. And curious and wonderfully hungry for knowledge.
This is the best show.
This makes my day every morning driving to work
Fun meteorology fact. When it says 50% precipitation, it doesn't mean that there's a 50% chance to rain. It means that 50% of the area they cover will have rain
OMG!!!😂😂😂32:45
By far one of the best ones.
Also, Chuck nice you’re IQ has been jumping through the roof. Love both of you :)
"So dark energy is truly a mystery?"
* High pitched squeak * "YEAS" 🤣
Burst out laughing hahaahaha man I love how excited NDT gets ❤️
Greetings, I am Asabele Sabelo, an undergraduate at UKZN doing my BSc in Applied Math and Physics. I love your show, or as I like to call it, "The fountain for curious minds." What if actually light and time had the same speed and light relative to time is not moving, but with our scale of how time passes, we see the light traveling at 2.998*10^8m/s? hence what you said the photon perceives its journey from the sun to us, on Cosmic queries the deep part 2.
THE DEEP PART 2? My prayers have been answered 😍
you guys are always awesome, but in the same room adds an entire new level and brings it up a few notches!
It’s so cute when Chuck can laugh Neil out of his chair 😂
Side note on the why photons don't "lose heat in space" question, the photons that hit us don't make contact with anything that they would be transferring "heat" into, it's when they make contact and are consequently absorbed that things heat up, but the travel from the sun to the earth is uninhibited by anything or else they wouldn't reach us in the first place
Jacob Smith why does it take 8+ mins to reach us? Shouldn’t it be instant like how the photon experiences it
Time is relative to your frame of reference my friend, the speed of light is a constant and so time dilation occurs stretching it longer and longer as you approach light speed and actually reaching light speed has time not passing around you
Jacob Smith so there is no one true time? To humans the suns energy takes 8 mins?
I love you guys for bringing so much passion and energy positivity to our lives!
thanks :)
Brilliant episode...great questions, amazing answers and frickin hilarious (black gravity done me in)...Neil and Chuck are my fave duo of all time and space ❤❤❤
It was the Abyss guys ! not the deep.
You're right! Ed Harris was in the Abyss ! Nick Nolti,(pardon my syntax on nick's last name!)was in the Deep!
I’ve watched Cosmic queries 3 times a day for the last 3 months. Am now more interesting.
Thank you for this gift to humanity.
34:11 if you are not black you don’t know how deep into the soul the humor of this joke is penetrating. I am dying laughing. Lol
Reminds me of this video! th-cam.com/video/efiW2K8gASM/w-d-xo.html
Man, this not just education, this is pure comedy, keep up.
4:50 void point.
5:20 a totally blind person online once had this excellent analogy when asked what he actually sees that kinda fits here; true blindness is like trying to look through the back of your head or through your elbow. There’s “nothing” because there’s no medium (ie retinae and nerves) to transmit a visual signal. In the same way there’s no “medium” or background outside the Big Bang for things and time to exist. I wonder if a magical observer in that void would see our universe as just an unchanging blip that had already begun, ended and just left its mark all at once in that no-spacetime. Would it even leave a mark?
30:53 this is me asking this question, thank you for answering
So refreshing to see people actually talk about their opinions and not argue in the comments!!
My dudes,
The statement that light doesn't experience time really blew my mind.
Thanks Obama.
Yes, and it took "forever". I wanted chuck gone for a long time because his illiteracy wasn't adding anything, but now I think he's learned enough to be part of the conversation.
Im so glad to be born in this time, with Neil deGrasse Tyson in my world. :)
What if dark energy is the anti particle to gravity?
that is a possibility, and I'm glad someone asked something about this topic because I have a hypothesis also... ok, we all know about solar wind and pressure etc... right? well what if it's just so strong that it's countering the matters gravity of each individual system, and pushing each away from the other. I only see one issue with this though, not ALL systems/galaxies are moving away from one another, but what if thats just due to the variability of the solar wind/pressure (as the star gets coronal holes and sun spots it changes the pressure and speed, and shape of the "pressure") I really think we are just overlooking something we already know about. Thoughts?
As for Dark Matter, that is coming to an end, we have found more matter out there that we never seen b4, and it keeps growing. Not to mention the Simulation of a universe Without dark matter was done and was more accurate than the Dark Matter model... We really need a revamp of our sciences... You should invite Brian Greene on the show sometime again, Niel, Chuck, and Brian :) would have to be "The Deep, pt.3" ;)
I'm still laughing at the idea that the mystery of dark matter (black gravity) will be solved by Cosmic Cops implementing a "stop and frisk" policy in space.
Neil is ridiculously knowledgeable and smart anything he explains is almost always easy to comprehend.
Y'all forgot to add in the commercials during the breaks!... You take a break and show a black screen for a few seconds lol
a while ago if you said something to me about physics and anything related about universe i wouldnt even pay attention to you, but look at me now, watching almost all cosmic queries podcasts and enjoying it alot
Neil "So...." deGrasse Tyson
I can see smoke coming out of Chucks head. I'm so hooked on this show. Chuck you're right people need to watch this.
"Delicious I am"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Im enjoying this and learning new things at the same time!! This is heaven!! Thank u Neil 🙏 and chuck we love u man !!
The deep 2: existential boogaloo
Chuck black gravity on point. THIS SHOW IS GOOD, DAMN. more alien questions please
33:42 I was cracking up lol
"This show is nice"
You have no idea Chuck...lol
It's beyond any content on this planet. Love you both!
Neil looks beautiful
Love your podcast bro really making this watchable for the masses
Chuck, c'mon buddy, you've heard this at least 10 times by now...you can't possibly be surprised by that chicken-egg thing...it feels forced if you're acting. ;)