Neil deGrasse Tyson Interview Horizon (Part 3/3)

[killroyale1]

AWESOME!!!!



[s3125694]

that was NOT stra trek!! that was "back to the future"!!!!

[MakingTomorrowToday]

Tyson is so inspiring. I almost want to become a scientist instead of an engineer.

[pfolan1]

Thanks MicroHive for all three parts, what a great upload. This should be on the homepage of YT so people have the opportunity to watch an inspiring pioneer in the field of Astrophysics, Science has a bad reputation for egocentric scientists who argue over theorems and problems, Mr Tyson however makes the whole subject seem no more complex than rules of a football or basketball game.

[TheGeorgevt]

Star Trek? what a dumbass, thats definitely the twilight zone theme not star trek

[0sAndOnes]

@TheGeorgevt lol@you callling an astrophysicist dumb because he got music to your fav. tv show wrong. you fucking tool

[TheGeorgevt]

@0sAndOnes I wasn't calling Neil Tyson dumb.. the interviewer was dumb. Neil Tyson is incredibly smart, so get your fucking facts straight before you call me a tool.

[johnnyd101]

great interview interviewer was very good.

[djbrownsound]

i could be lit and listen to him talk all day! (BLAZED) its just interesting as FUC* when ripped LOL

[McSibiss]

Tyson is great. And the interviewer did an awesome job.

[mik99D]

Believe me astrophysicists make bad politicians. Newton was a politician and made just one speech; "Can someone close that window? It is causing an unpleasant draft" Paraphrasing here.

[aNdYmAtTeR]

" ... but I'd rather just live that long and watch it all happen!"

Don't hold your breath! XD

But if we could send somebody to the future NdGT would be a worthy contender, no doubt!

[GodlessMorality]

Love how Neil explains the importance of science in relation to our every day lives and engineering!

[shotox21]

Neil for President.

[statickk14]

Go Tyson.

[lupresti]

I agree.. he's the greatest Tyson

[Moirera]

Love all videos with Neil, great upload <3

[galidorn1]

hope you brought your birth certificate with you

[KillermondoDude]

@MicroHive They synchronized 2 atomic clocks (Measures the radioactive decay of a nuclear isotope) they took one on a 12 hour high altitude flight and the other they left on the ground, after the flight the one on the plane was minutes behind the one on the ground. now if a mere high altitude flight can bend time imagine what a space flight can do

[lovroore]

such a great interview, and well thought out questions too

[thepeter]

Thank you for uploading, friend.

[undertow099]

Neil is such a captivating speaker. I really loved this interview... :D

[XieYali]

I feel the same was as Neil does at 1:55 ish.

[MrGem7]

This guy is an amazing genius..I think he and Michio Kaku are awesome..I sometimes wish people like this had more power in government.

[TRUMPHENT]

@MrGem7 They are! Take comfort in the fact that Dr Steven Chu, Holdren, Lubchenco and others are advising the government.

[nuksucow1983]

@MrGem7 I hear you man, current government restricts true scientific progress nowadays. I beleive we are in a transition at the moment, where we are looking towards scientists and critical thinkers..... rather than polititians

[SonOfNye]

@MrGem7 Who the hell wants intelligent people with good ideas in positions of power?

[wittenberg5]

@MrGem7

I wouldn't call him a genius. Einstein, Newton, and Gallileo were geniuses because they revolutionized the science of their day. Tyson hasn't done anything on that scale, and i think he himself would admit that. However, he is a very brilliant, and extremely articulate man and i think he is a great bridge between the public and science.

[SGde3a]

Yeah it could be milliseconds but if they've been up there for years you'd expect a 5+ second delay. Even if radio waves travel at the speed of light how can they catch up (go faster than light(?)) to catch up the milliseconds.

[larizzo25]

@SGde3a if you didnt know when bases on earth talk to astronaughts in space it takes a moment for them to recieve the information and a moment for the base to get a reply because of that relative distance so if your moving fast enough the information can only travel at the speed of light and if your moving fast enough the information would have to catch up to you because you would be in the future thus is what neil tyson is explaining

[SGde3a]

I understand the pause because of the distance, but it would never catch up if it were always a few seconds ahead in time (and accelerating) is what i'm saying.

Time afaik is man made and it is based off the sun (one year is a full rotation around the sun). I do believe the sun ages us faster (our skin anyway), and that the further away from it the slower you might age but this is nothing to do with time.

[effect0rz]

The speed of light isn't relative to the observer. It always goes away/toward the observer at the speed of light ( C ). Light acts not like a ball thrown from the back of a truck, adding or subtracting velocities depending on direction (50kmph truck moving west, throw ball 50kmph east, ball falls straight down; throw ball west, ball moves at 100kmph..) Light is it's own separate .. thing all to it's self.

[SGde3a]

@effect0rz Thanks for a better explanation. I think if the light bounces off of you or even anything holding the bulb (any light source, not sure about laser) then it will then go away from you at the speed of light as you said therefore making it impossible to catch up with unless these bounces have a friction value so it could be slowed. But i don't think it is constant no matter what.

[effect0rz]

@SGde3a Yeah, the speed of light thru a medium (not that of space, for instance) is most definitely slower than that not thru one. Like when a pencil "bends" when put at an angle in a glass of water. Another example is that the light created from the sun takes a thousand (if not thousand-S) of years to reach the surface to get to the earth some 8 minutes later. 70000 KM (radius of the sun very roughly) takes 1k years, 150 MILLION KM? 8 minutes. Ah, science is great!

[SGde3a]

I dont think i'll ever understand the future time travel theory. To them they're not moving faster than normal but to you they are. To me its an illusion... They say they have had atomic clocks on the edge of the earths gravity and it ticks faster, but if thats true then how come they can talk to astronaughts in real time at any time.