Things You Thought You Knew – Planet X

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🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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What is the three body problem? How will the universe end? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down the case of Planet X, why the three body problem is unsolvable, and prevailing theories on how the universe will come to an end.

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0:00.0	Coming up on Star Talk, it's a Things You Thought You New edition.
0:05.0	Of course, I'm there with Chuck Nice, and we tackle Planet X.
0:10.0	What's up with that? Is it still there? Who knows? We know and we tell you. Not only that we tackle the three body problem.
0:20.0	No I actually haven't seen the series yet, but I do know what the three body problem is in physics,
0:25.6	and you're going to hear all about it.
0:27.5	And lastly, we're going to go to the ends of time and have a chat about one scenario that's particularly disturbing
0:36.8	about how the universe might end. Next on Star Talk.
0:41.9	Welcome to Star Talk. Welcome to Star Talk.
0:45.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:50.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:54.0	So Chuck, anything you've been eating you lately?
0:58.0	So many things.
1:00.0	I don't know if we have time you know I did recently see a thing about planet X
1:07.1	Planet X which I was very disappointed to find out had nothing to do with Malcolm
1:12.4	this can't be widely known very disappointed
1:13.8	to find out I had nothing to do with Malcolm. This can't be widely known because I don't hear people talking about it
1:17.1	when they talk about planet X. Right. So I want to give you just some
1:19.6	backstory here. All right. William Herschel accidentally discovers the planet Uranus.
1:25.0	We knew about Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn.
1:28.0	There it stood for like millennia.
1:31.0	He discovers Uranus.
1:33.2	It's a beautiful paper.
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