Cosmic Queries– Multiverse Madness with Max Tegmark

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🗓️ 14 March 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Do we live in one of many universes? On this episode of StarTalk, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice investigate the theory of the multiverse with physicist, author, and professor Max Tegmark. (Originally Aired March 22, 2021)

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0:00.0	Welcome to StarTalk, your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:10.3	StarTalk begins right now.
0:14.1	This is StarTalk. I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're a personal astrophysicist,
0:20.3	and this is going to be a Cosmic Queries edition, the ever popular format that we started many years ago.
0:26.6	And it just keeps going strong.
0:29.0	And today's topic is going to be the multiverse.
0:34.5	I got with me my co-host, Chuck.
0:36.7	Hey, hey, Neil. How are you?
0:38.3	Chuck, nice. You know, you're getting such a schooling here with all this cosmic knowledge.
0:44.1	Yes, I am.
0:44.9	We'll have to give you a degree of your own.
0:47.3	No, no, no, because then that, you know, normally once you get the degree, that means that your time at the institution is over unless you start
0:55.0	paying more money.
0:56.0	Okay.
0:56.7	So they kick you out the front door.
0:58.4	Right.
0:58.5	Okay.
0:59.2	So I'm just going to continue to.
1:01.8	I'm just staying in school forever.
1:03.9	That's all.
1:04.1	Lifelong learner.
1:05.1	That's it.
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