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Jun 2024
55m 29s

Cosmic Queries – Single Electron Univers...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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Could the universe be composed of a single electron? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly answer grab-bag questions about the multidimensionality of time, quantum chromodynamics, gluons, tachyons, and more with astrophysicist Charles Liu. 

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