Astrophysicist Charles Liu joins Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts to explore time, spacetime, redshift, wormholes, dreams as predictions, rocket trajectory, and tools for gathering information from the body.
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Our experience of time is influenced by our constant movement in spacetime.
The podcast explores the connection between science fiction concepts and real-world scientific advancements.
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Is our experience of time a result of our perpetual movement? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore spacetime, metaphysics, the Brachistochrone problem and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu.
NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free.
Thanks to our Patrons Marcus Karlstad, Vincent Zimmerman, Ryan Lambert, Carolyn K, Stefan C. Villafana, and David Churn for supporting us this week.
Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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