We live in a time where many people's creative juices that might have otherwise flowed are arrested because they have distractions in their life. So I wonder what discoveries remain unrevealed by brilliant people today, simply because of the distractions we have built into our own lives. And sitting alone by yourself, staring into the ceiling, no one would call that enjoyment. But that's exactly the conditions under which Isaac Newton contemplated the cosmos. Darwin contemplated the cosmos on his long walks alone in the woods. No, there wasn't a TV screen. There wasn't an advertising campaign or anything else going on in their lives. If you ever had a chance of making such a discovery about the natural world, it
Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice answer a grab bag of fan-submitted Cosmic Queries on black holes, dark matter, aliens, colonizing planets, Sir Isaac Newton, and a whole lot more!
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Photo Credit: Image Credit: NASA, ESA and J. Kastner (RIT).
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