Episode · StarTalk Radio · 2023-08-22
Books mentioned on Cosmic Queries – Wormhole Universe
Does an evaporated black hole leave a trace? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian co-host Chuck Nice answer questions about the fabric of spacetime, black holes, cosmic evolution and more.
Neil deGrasse Tyson discussed Contact by Carl Sagan.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Contact
Contact by Carl Sagan is a classic science fiction novel that chronicles humanity's first detected radio signal from an extraterrestrial civilization and the subsequent efforts to build a machine to meet them.
Discussed“but then there's more work done on wormholes especially inspired by Carl Sagan's novel contact when he was buds with with Kip Thorne a a relativist physicist astrophysicist at Caltech where you you run through more of the equations”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged To Infinity and Beyond
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