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Jun 10
37m 25s

Cosmic Queries – Renaming Time

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
About this episode

Can you measure time without something moving? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice tackle your cosmic questions, from the Silurian Hypothesis to singularities to the edge of the known universe. 

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