TikTok: What sound does space make if you were to float around in it? You'll hear Darth Vader. There's no medium to communicate sound from any place in space to your ears. So what you'll begin to hear are things inside your body. I started hearing blood pumping through my ear canal. Wow. Being from New York and for the first time hearing absolutely nothing. Your brain just couldn't take it.
What do you wish you’d learned in school? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice go back to school to answer questions about simulation theory, time dilation, white holes, the sound of space, and more!
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