i got into a twitter fight with brian cox, who's acount of my counterpart over in the u k. I said that light sabres in star wars could cut things and do damage if they're high enough power but they can't bounce off each other becausee light waves pass through columns of list like two lazers all just passed through each other. And so i had, i conceded on international twitter that i got out geked in that ind that tweet was cool. Well, actually, if, if they're made of game rays, the gamerays, two gamerays have a probability of interacting with each other and not passing through. They've high enough energy to
What happens when three black holes collide? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice explore even more cosmic collisions in space, in the quantum realm, and more!
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