Why Quantum Physics Says There's a Multiverse

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Published 2024-03-11
Who wins in a battle between General Relativity and Quantum Physics? The answer has pretty serious implications for our view of the universe. Do we live in a continuum across an infinite number of parallel universes? Neil deGrasse Tyson has got an answer that might surprise you.

What came before the Big Bang? Neil explains why such a question has no meaning. Was the singularity at the beginning of time embedded in a higher-dimension? And what does that mean for our ability to understand the universe?

Where did the ingredients for life come from? Neil explains why it takes so long to make said ingredients, and offers a perspective on areas of the universe that are teeming with life.

Why is everything round? Neil offers insight into the forces that shape our universe... into mostly round things. Why are there exceptions? Find out in this episode.

From the full episode, titled 'Cosmic Queries — The Deep, Part II':    • StarTalk Podcast: Cosmic Queries – Th...  

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Timestamps:
0:00 - General Relativity vs Quantum Physics
1:10 - Multiverse Theory
2:46 - Before the Big Bang
3:44 - Higher Dimensions
4:31 - The Ingredients for Life
6:06 - Why is Everything Round?
7:10 - Weathermen are LYING

All Comments (21)
  • @GuruChaithanya
    Chuck's acting skills peaked. He already know all these concepts but acts as if he heard it for the first time and blown his mind 😂
  • @et1965
    When I was 10 years old, I was very interested in Cosmology and spent a lot of time thinking about it. One afternoon I was standing in my mothers kitchen and I noticed some drops of water on the kitchen bench. I wondered to myself, what if everything we knew about existed inside one of those many drops of water. I imagined each drop of water as representing a universe. Looking at the drops sepetated on the bench, I wondered about the possibility for an unlimited number of universes existing in an infinite void seperated my unimaginable distances. Now that I am 58, I enjoy hearing sceince slowly supporting the notion.
  • @Serfo_
    Is it me or Chuck sounds more and more like a real scientist for times? No wonder, since he's been leveling up all this years with Neal AND he's pretty smart, on top of that.
  • I want both essays😭😂 "On Being Round"-Neil Tyson and "On Being On the Ground"-Mike Tyson🤣
  • Let's officially nominate Chuck's new word "SOTHING" as the official StarTalk geek quantum codeword meaning nothing & something all at the same time.❤😆
  • @JeremyEllwood
    7:44 - When they say 50% chance of rain in weather models, it usually means 50% of the area (usually a county by county basis) will get rain. Aviation has drilled this into my head.
  • @ndowroccus4168
    There’s something about watching chuck & Neil that just doesn’t feel wrong. Kudos
  • @neilbeni7744
    I died 10 months ago of a brain tumour, you just happen to be in the universe which I survived.. lol.
  • @aoifedeborha2420
    Oxford Dictionary, special request to add “sothing” to the English language
  • @slimcuttava2929
    What if our dreams that we don't understand are a conscious connection between the other versions of us in the multiverse?
  • @ronin4991
    the topics aside, really nice editing, especially at around 6:15 or so 🙏🏻
  • @busyrand
    Fantastic explaination... This stuff is fun to think about...
  • 8:20 it’s not a percentage of chance with the weather. When you see the 50% that means 50% of that area will have rain or 30% and so on
  • @TG-Maverick22
    I'm so glad there is a 2nd Startalk channel. Psyched! Subscribed
  • @nilo70
    Cheers From your newest subscriber from California 😎 (startalk sent me)