Cosmic Queries – Astrochemistry with Kate the Chemist

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Cosmic Queries – Your God Is Too Small

What’s more terrifying: finding alien life or finding out we are alone in the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice dive into fan questions about optics, religion, communicating with entanglement, and life on Earth after humans. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can li ...  Show more

Cosmic Queries – Quantum Consciousness with Charles Liu

Is your consciousness a quantum phenomenon? Is the universe one predetermined block? Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab bag questions about quantum theory, the cosmological constant, and retrocausality with astrophysicist Charles Liu.NOTE: St ...  Show more

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