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Oct 7
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Things You Thought You Knew – Quantum Ca...

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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What happens when you fall into a black hole? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice give us the step-by-step on spaghettification, explain Schrodinger's cat, and explore quantum tunnelling… Or do they? 
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