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Dec 2024
52m 9s

Past, Present, Future: Time Travel with ...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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What type of time travel is in “A Christmas Carol”? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice answer fan questions on time travel, paradoxes, and wormholes with theoretical physicist, Brian Greene. Did Ebenezer Scrooge get pulled through a wormhole?  

(Originally Aired December 20, 2022)

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