The speakers contemplate what it would be like to have a conversation with Isaac Newton in the year 1700, considering their knowledge surpasses his. They explore the potential consequences of sharing certain knowledge with him and tease the upcoming conversation in the next segment.
What would Isaac Newton think of today’s science? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice answer a cosmic cauldron of Cosmic Queries. From dark matter, to what aliens look like, the size of the universe, we answer a multiverse of questions.
This episode originally aired July 27, 2020.
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Photo Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: NASA-JPL-Caltech
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