"I forgot it wasn't 88 miles an hour, wasn't it? Yeah. Totally the flux capacitor," he says. "So you got nothing to have to protest ... I saw you on the side." If they get you breaking the speed limit by measuring your speed at the side of the road, you're definitely breaking the speed had they measured it in the road. That's what I'm saying with me, we're doing more than 88 mph. Well, that's because I have a flux capacitor.
What is exit velocity? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore parabolas, measuring the speed of an object using the Doppler effect, and other physics in baseball.
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