If you actually watch people chasing a wheel of cheese down cooper's hill, they are not smoothly, right? They are flipping, slipping, sliding, banging into each other and things. And whoever gets to the bottom first goes home with a big cheese. If they race, there's only one wheel. You don't bring your own, ok? So it's just one jot, fol cone, tat can oyou have tosn not weels of cheese racing against each other. Because you could, you could, if you know physics, you could fix that one, make make your wheel coming first every time.
How fast does cheese roll down a hill? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly walk us through the physics behind the weirdest sports: cheese rolling, belly flopping, face slapping and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.
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