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Dec 2023
47m 55s

Our Burning Questions – Age of the Unive...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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What is the greatest scientific breakthrough? Neil deGrasse Tyson answers co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly’s burning questions they have been saving all year about the age of the universe, the double slit experiment, and the nature of time. Is time even real? 

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Thanks to our Patrons Jessi Strong Spear, Jeffrey Brenman, Dr. Cy (she, her, hers), Amanda Kerschen, Andrea Chitwood, Glenn Downing, and Lucas Reames for supporting us this week.

Photo Credit: Timm Weitkamp, CC BY 3.0 DE, via Wikimedia Commons

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