Scientific Martyrs, Life Beyond Our Planet & More! | Cosmic Queries #106

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🔒 Get 20% off DeleteMe by going to https://joindeleteme.com/StarTalk and use code StarTalk to protect your privacy! 🙌 What’s more terrifying: finding alien life or finding out we are alone in the universe? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice dive into fan questions about optics, religion, communicating with entanglement, and life on Earth after humans. Neil explains why the speed of light doesn’t always go as fast as the speed of light. You’ll learn about evanescent waves, the index of refraction, and why light behaves like a focused New Yorker navigating a sidewalk full of tourists when passing through molecules. We explore how anti-reflective coatings work, how total internal reflection keeps photons trapped, and why visible light can’t get through a brick wall while other wavelengths pass through with ease. Chuck shares his theory on whether the expansion of the universe is caused by pressure bleeding in from the outside, while Neil discusses the upcoming Europa

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