Neil deGrasse Tyson Finds Barbie's Dream House Using Science

[@cindydunning2183]

Love how these two have fun together and bring out the best in each other.

[@Lucid.Insights]

💯

[@ZennExile]

it's almost like they are both entertainers that rely almost entirely on prepared material so they share a bond of common practice and a joy of each other's presence in a world where everyone else is supposed to believe they are the characters they play and not just actors doing a job and going home.

[@hamiltronOTlvl69]

When colbert said he learned to overexplain things from his dad, tyson. 😂 they've got the perfect chemistry

[@ZennExile]

@@Justanotherhumanonthenet I have to be butthurt to point out that you have a mental illness?

[@bizarrewindow]

excellent chemistry

[@Desaved]

These two together are like Disneyland for grownups! I love it!

[@JohnDoe-vy5hh]

Yes. I love how these two play off each other.

[@bethaneywilkins6905]

I totally agree! I love when Neil comes on!

[@mrtelechi]

You don't know how much the world has missed this, and, Neil deGrasse Tyson is the perfect guest. So funny and so amazingly smart. Brilliant.

[@berglettemom6045]

I love how these two are such good friends. It’s clear they adore each other.

[@jackmedlock5888]

“I thought my boy had lost it.” 😂😭

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

3:57 That little Feynman story is also included in an old TV miniseries called _Race For The Bomb_ , from 1987. Only in this telling, the windshield keeps out the UV, but it doesn’t keep out the flash of visible light, which manages to dazzle him quite effectively. That version is still fascinating to watch (at least I found it so). It’s an ensemble telling of the story of the Manhattan Project, with a lot of characters well fleshed-out: General Leslie Groves, Robert Oppenheimer, Leo Szilard, Edward Teller and loads of others (even Albert Einstein plays a minor part). Also spot Leslie Nielsen in there at one point, doing a straight role of all things, after his career had already made the switch to comedy.

[@shirleyrogers3145]

I could watch the interactions between Stephen and Neil all day never tire of it.🎉

[@embreis2257]

never a dull moment with Neil in da house...

[@merlapittman5034]

Love Neil DeGrasse Tyson! And the chemistry between him and Stephen makes this even more wonderful!

[@Dragonstar13]

I really love watching these two together. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is so passionate, and Stephen is just so eager to listen to him.

[@jsully8076]

Neil is one of my favorite people on the entire planet.

[@cleverusername9369]

And elsewhere

[@JohnDoe-vy5hh]

Yup. I love that guy.

[@zbagz01]

@@cleverusername9369 !!!😍😅 3 out of 4 Martians agree!

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

You can catch him regularly on his _StarTalk_ series.

[@slimzimm1031]

I'm sorry.

[@laalaa99stl]

"I learned it from watching you." LOL. Great reference to the anti-marijuana ads of the 80s.

[@Asnerlicious]

These nerds are SO adorable.

[@Angelicanothamilton]

“Are you Done?”😂😂😂

[@filizozdogan5374]

Two of my most favorite people on media. Cannot get enough of their conversations separately. When they get together best thing on the internet! ❤

[@TheOldHippiebilly]

What a delight! These two really oughta get together for us more often.

[@TomLeg]

The thing about RIchard Feynam being portrayed as the man playing bongos is like old religious art, where each saint and character would be identified by some token. Illiterate people could not read an identifying word, so people had to be identified by their props. St Peter is shown with keys, Thomas the apostle with carpenters tools or a spear, St Sebastian tied and stuffed full of arrows.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Feynman is famous for a lot of things. Also for being part of a Samba school, and for safecracking.

[@lashendawest7509]

We love neil degrasse tyson and stephen colbert

[@slimzimm1031]

Do we?

[@RP-pu3ur]

who is we?

[@burnyizland]

I hate NDT and love Colbert. NDT is both smug and manic at the same time and it's very grating. He is a net loss for team science because his 'everyone but me is stupid and ridiculous' routine likely turns some people away from science.

[@burnyizland]

@@kava3262I'm an intelligent nerd and I've spent my life(since leaving high school) learning and working with other intelligent nerds. Many of whom are quite confident. When a douche like NDT enters the room we all internally groan and make an excuse to GTFO. An intelligent person with confidence doesn't need to put others down to seem witty. Au contraire.

[@burnyizland]

@@kava3262 I'm not trying to be witty, I'm trying to tell you the truth. I thought I was talking to an adult. My bad.

[@peterbathum2775]

Neils face as he is being asked about Oppenheimer ... priceless anticipation ...

[@rhov-anion]

I could watch a whole hour of "web exclusive" content between these two. Stephen has poetry of words, Neil has poetry of the mind.

[@theartofjapan3559]

Feinman used to hang at my mom and dad's house in Altadena. Dad worked at JPL in the heady days of early space exploration and they would have parties in their guest house that they rented to Albert Hibbs. Feinman, according to my mom, would sit in the corner and play the bongos. Hibbs later went on to be the director of JPL. After my dad died, one of the JPL employees who came to the memorial told me that Feinman would take my dad to the strip clubs in Pasadena where they would discuss electron optics and such. Small world.

[@cheryllundholm8779]

💖💖💖 You need to do a full hour with Neil!!! Don't do any of the things you normally do, during the show. Just do a full hour with Neil, it will be the most fantastic show, ever!!! Epic!!! You two are so amazingly great together! 💖💖💖

[@yurielcundangan9090]

Gotta love Colbert. He’s got some guts

[@RP-pu3ur]

You are literally not a real person.

[@rlsfrny]

Oppenheimer was breaking champagne glasses because a) entropy always leads from order to chaos (unbroken to broken, and never the reverse) and b) according to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, there is a (very small) probability that the glass might reassemble from broken to whole.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

You don’t need to invoke Heisenberg just to have classical statistical uncertainty. The Second Law of Thermodynamics was always a question of probability, even before quantum mechanics.

[@rlsfrny]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 ok, but in the context of the movie, the breaking champagne glasses occurred during the heisenberg lecture series, so in answer to the question of what the scene was about, it was about heisenberg.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

@@rlsfrny In the context of the movie, the scene was not explained. Which is why Stephen asked about it. One of the key points about quantum theory is that classical laws (including thermodynamics) do not suddenly become invalid.

[@rlsfrny]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 I'm explaining the point of the scene. I am a professional screenwriter, not a physicist. The point of the scene was to show Oppenheimer thinking about the implications of Heisenberg's ideas, and to do it in a non-expository manner.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

@@rlsfrny Maybe you should contact Stephen Colbert and tell him that. I myself have come across many examples of breaking things to demonstrate the Second Law of Thermodynamics, never the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. The best-known, not to say most notorious, illustration of the latter is Schrödinger’s Cat.

[@elsergecruz]

“That’s why they call them movies” hahahahahaha brilliant

[@patriciamurfitt4590]

Words cannot express my pure joy at the end of the strike. Stephen is back baby!!! 🥰

[@Anuchan]

Neil and Stephen in conversation is an infinite interrupt chain.

[@SohrabKafshhayam-pr7pk]

Neil is one in a Gazillion.....such a good down to earth know it all... He doesn't make his counterpart feel stupid. I think that's because his motive is to teach not to convince, as well as possibly learn from the other person.

[@chrisandersen5635]

Wow!! Always delightful on here. I have never seen another human take such delight in simply talking about science. Imagine if teachers were this excited about their chosen field.

[@gafls3151]

So many are, but they need someone willing to listen.

[@unknownuser0006]

Giggling Neil is the best

[@slimzimm1031]

No, he isn't.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

I thought tall-poppy syndrome didn’t exist in the USA, but clearly it does.

[@slimzimm1031]

He's a goof who loves the sound of his own voice and was probably into slipping pills into drinks in college. Putin is successful too.@@lawrencedoliveiro9104

[@rodniki14]

Neil is literally bursting with knowledge.

[@zeblackboi]

He's thinks a man can be a woman. A child is smarter than Neil.

[@snoski]

Yes, his body was found after this segment. It had exploded.

[@leavingitblank9363]

Gross. His is NOT "literally" bursting. Use your words.

[@rodniki14]

@@leavingitblank9363 Wrong. "Literally" is used as emphasis in a sentence like this.

[@leavingitblank9363]

@@rodniki14 And you're calling ME wrong?! Again, use your words. And a dictionary.

[@ritschieee]

I just hope, Neil is the guest for the rest of the year! At last....

[@51ShadesOfRed]

"Now, what's his face throwing champagne gla- I have no idea what he was doing. I thought my boy had lost it." "What's his face" 😂

[@tkillcoin]

Stephen doing his best impression of “Jimmy Fallon asking a question”!!!

[@NicoGeeraerts]

Someone please pickle and preserve these 2 treasures xD

[@josephdonais4778]

THAT was excellent! Start your own seasonal show you two.

[@spaceo8568]

Filmmakers now fear Dr. Tyson's science-y wrath.

[@deboracopeland4795]

I could listen to this man forever. ❤😊

[@ninehundreddollarluxuryyac5958]

It is true that car windshields block almost all ultraviolet light. The clear covers over the headlights are also black at ultraviolet wavelengths as are all traffic signs.

[@MrVikingsandra]

This Duo is my favorite I swear! 👏👏👏

[@cloud__99]

Could listen to him for hours!

[@318iSpoons]

On the glass breaking, I guess Oppenheimer was visualising the splitting of an atom (nuclear fission): a chain reaction (multiple atom splits) would be hard to maintain with inconsistent splitting, as Oppenheimer saw with each glass breaking. Oppenheimer/Manhattan Project Team eventually found a way to split the atoms to maintain a chain reaction🤯

[@vailpcs4040]

I interpreted the glass smashing as an analogue for the fission of atoms with different sized pieces bouncing off one another and the walls as the interplay of what could lead to a self-sustaining reaction if harnessed, no? Was that just me?

[@kristenkrezdorn6222]

Two of my favorite people ever! ❤

[@em8066]

Neil grabbing Stephen's finger in excitement. Stephen retorting, "I learned it from you, Dad." These two.

[@NewMessage]

I'd believe Weird Barbie was in Florida...

[@sassenachdragon]

Aaah so the real life physicist he referred to Richard Feynman was the character played by Jack Quaid… I remember that scene when he’s inside his car… But looked up Wikipedia and yes he was a bongo aficionado which he started when he had a sabbatical in Brazil and fell in love with samba… (my birth country)… this is SO Fascinating!!!

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

He was less than complimentary about the Brazilian school system, though. He felt it concentrated too much on learning by rote, not enough on thinking about what you were learning.

[@winonafrog]

Cool guy-search for his video “Why” on here

[@arinlilevjen6114]

"I learned it from you, Dad." 😂😂😂

[@saptak]

The breaking of the champagne glass signifies the nature of entropy

[@CubanRider]

So good, I missed these.

[@luciakarakitsios3792]

You guys are having way tooo much fun. Facinating information

[@DarqStalker]

Wish Neil could be a permanent co-host.

[@genericusername5909]

With a film that long I hoped that they’d have more of Feynman messing with the military at Los Alamos

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

What was the title of the film again?

[@Egginamagail]

I am so glad y'all are back!

[@NoShiiitSherlock]

We need a Tyson and Colbert and Bill Nye and John Stewart - spin off

[@humanform5354]

Hot damn!... I'd definitely pay to watch that...

[@bustosadrian]

Stephen went full Tyson. Never go full Tyson.

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Just putting another -shrimp- science on the barbie. (Yo to da cross-ditch homies in 🇦🇺 from 🇳🇿.)

[@nelsonclub7722]

That was clever - very clever - bravo

[@shannonblanchard8195]

Neil is my favorite person and guest of all time!!! Has he done the Colbert questionnaire??? I mean c’mon ❤

[@susanb4816]

I seem to recall he has

[@Lea-zf7lm]

​@@susanb4816 that I must see. Ty 😄

[@Lea-zf7lm]

I watched the questionnaire and it was fabulous! 😊

[@shannonblanchard8195]

Thanks

[@Lea-zf7lm]

@@shannonblanchard8195 enjoy!

[@s1x6x1s]

2:22 Colbert is deGrasse-Tyson-ing NdT and NdT has had enough 😂

[@RocRizzo]

I knew that it was Feynman in those two scenes. Glad Neil noticed too. I am sure others noticed as well.

[@dianewilliams1125]

Sheldon played the bongos because Fineman did!😊😊😊

[@charlessaintpe8574]

There was one anecdote I've heard that Oppenheimer left out, and I was surprised because it seemed like they were leading up to it. They have that scene where everyone was predicting how big the blast would be, and I thought for sure they would follow that up with Fermi tearing up paper and dropping the pieces as the bomb went off to get an early estimate of the strength of the explosion.

[@NikolaHoward]

Cutting room floor?

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

That sequence was in _Race For The Bomb_ , I remember.

[@cindyoursler3535]

Definitely got Keys vibe watching Barbie ☀️ 🏝️

[@jambonejim1249]

Yay for Dick Feynman one of the great percussionists of physics.

[@StewChicken42]

THANK YOU, I'VE BEEN SAYING THAT FOR YEARS! MOVIES are supposed to MOVE YOU! 😂 🤐

[@abelgutierrez8676]

A masterpiece of a conversation. There is pasión ,information and comedy great entertainment thank you for making me watch👍

[@lorifrier8921]

I want to see Stephen guest star on Star Talk!!

[@BnaBreaker]

I love Neil so much but honestly, he doesn't really have much room to point fingers when it comes to rambling! 🤣🤣

[@bohemianmiss6282]

This is what had been missing in my life ❤😂

[@theresehopkins1581]

Absolutely love Neil's tie!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤ So good to have the two of you back!!!😅🤣😂❤❤❤❤🙏

[@Jmp5nb]

A genuine “Power Couple !” PS , is Chump going to select Electrocution as his exit? If it is, this would go bonkers on Cable Pay per View, sign me up!

[@Jmp5nb]

@@Boyzgoated Haha!

[@magsj6474]

Thank you, I've missed all of you.

[@Vesperitis]

3:25 I aspire to be able to have this strong a nerdgasm as NGT when I'm his age.

[@nightmera]

Hahaha after all that Neil’s like beats me 😂

[@ndi5670]

All is right in the universe again. Welcome back!

[@Sammasambuddha]

As a more positive comment other than how Stephen missed the Lahaina 🔥 🤔 hearing Neil say he doesn't know, can be counted on one hand. So it's refreshing when I hear it.

[@CaesarBro]

Stephen taking notes from poppa Letterman immediately by just “continue talking overtime and let the show team figure out what they do with the extra content.”

[@mztee8107]

These two together are such a hoot! An, intelligent hoot, to boot! 😊

[@TabethaAurochs]

Guess who knows how to find meaning in the whole Oppy throwing champagne flutes/seeing visions scene, Neil? Humanities majors!

[@halvarf]

I'm sure the first analysis of the movie with regards to gender stereotypes or from the view of feminist, queer, black or postcolonialist history has already been written and published.

[@TabethaAurochs]

@@halvarf 🤣 Probably already banned in FL. It's funny because it's true. I read a satirical feminist NYT Op Ed last weekend 😂

[@PearlOfTheQuarter23]

I love these two nerds

[@MusicLover-my6fo]

Neil deGrasse Tyson looks like my grandfather.

[@greggjohnson621]

Pink and turquoise (or as I like to call it)… Florida Camouflage.

[@StarTalk1993]

amazing show

[@AndyAcker]

Great fun having NDT on, as always. But I've never seen The Late Show cut a guest off on a KZbin clip mid-sentence before.

[@yangalang8]

FEYNMAN WHAT A G THANKS GOR EXPLAINING QUANTUM PHYSICS IN THE ONLY VAGUELY UNDERSTANDABLE WAY

[@ArtistFormallyKnownasMC]

3:25 that finger shaking had me screaming! He was so excited! 😂😂😂

[@eduardoregueiracampos]

WOW, I can't believe I'm actually correcting NdT here, but it's Barbenheimer, Neil!

[@rosehill9537]

2 intelligent men playing and talking just a joy to watch

[@lasandralucas7314]

Thanks for opening night Stephen and Neil. 😊😂😊😅😊

[@svintuselli5049]

Love the tie.

[@adidarmawan]

NDT needs to be a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly segment!!

[@ArtistFormallyKnownasMC]

I don’t want to correct this brilliant man necessarily, but there are palm trees of certain varieties all the way through the top panhandle of Florida. They may not be native, but they survive with our amount of chill hours all the way up in zone eight. But you may be able to eliminate location, based on the species of palm tree seen in the movie. Or, if let’s say, hypothetically, there are only palm trees in Barbie land, then maybe we’re talking more subtropical rather that up in the panhandle. So if you’re ever driving the interstate through Florida, for example, II10 or I75 north Florida, you will see palm trees that were installed at a number of the rest areas. This would definitely be a topic, cross-section of his science with horticulture expertise.

[@ray_ray_7112]

Interesting about the part with Feynman playing the bongos. I wonder if The Big Bang Theory writers had Sheldon play the bongos as a reference to Richard Feynman. Of course, there was also an episode on the show when the guys got to rent Feynman's van, which was the actual real van that he owned.

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Oppenheimer was a great movie, pretty detailed, but I didn’t realize it was THAT detailed. Pretty cool stuff

[@rosemariebredahl9519]

champaign glasses = frequency causing fission?

[@am2320LG]

Lovin Neil and Stephen!!!💕💕💕

[@b-dub6865]

I love Neil! My mind works like his, but I’m obviously not at his level. I would love to sit down & have a conversation with him. He’s fascinating!

[@eddiejan1972]

I bet its really fun going to the movies with Neil 🤣

[@JJVernig]

It's movie-ing

[@jeromeclemente3672]

lmfao. 3:26 NDT got so excited, he grabbed Colbert's Index finger and shook it like a baby would. I almost shrieked beside my girlfriend when I saw the Feynman with his bongos but I didn't recognize the actor playing him while they were in the car (without his bongos) because I only knew Feynman through his videos when he was a older. So without his Bongos I wouldn't recognize the great man.

[@safaiaryu12]

Dang. If Neil deGrasse Tyson loved the details in the movie, I really gotta see it.

[@chansherly212]

The next time someone points in my vague direction when they're excitedly talking about something, Im gonna grab that finger and start shaking it equally as excitedly to express my agreement with them