The singularity of a black hole is the edge of Einstein's general theory of relativity. If we step over this line, shit doesn't work. So it's not cheating. It's our ignorance. We're very candid about it. See, I love that. You can be ignorant of something and go to the edge of knowledge but then you just say: "We need something else here now"
Are entangled particles connected by wormholes? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice answer a grab bag of questions about the Fermi Paradox, Dinosaurs v. Aliens, our cosmological horizon, and more!
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