Lost in Translation: Encrypted Alien Messages with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Charles Liu

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[@tiago.alegria.315]

Why the big bang didn't collapse into a back hole since everything was on a single point?

[@cntthnko1111]

Is this actually NDT sending this message?

[@Alice_Sweicrowe]

What if they cracked faster than light communications? Non-local communication could be a thing.

[@kirickreutov2846]

Is it possible that gravity is just particles that are attracted to matter but not to itself?...and the more gravity particles are on and object (bigger matter) the more attracted to another object it becomes....does this explain dark matter?

[@afrodesiac8064]

If you think the invention of nuclear weapons was bad, you'd better hope humans never figure out time travel.

[@officermills]

Over the last few years, I have watched Chuck nice become an amateur astrophysicist. So proud ✊🏾

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

I'm still in the 2016 episodes of this podcast (listening to 'em all in order) and Chuck has grown, even at that point. Takin' charge in many of the All-Stars episodes

[@morpheus6749]

You mean an amateur clown. He degrades an otherwise decent program.

[@EazyE11]

That's Lord Nice to you buddy.

[@jaijaiwanted]

Haha so true, and we’ve been learning along with him

[@clandeszipp4564]

Nice patronising there. (No pun intended.) Is he your relative or something?

[@ThizzRyuko]

Charles Liu should be on this show more often

[@ray_ray_7112]

Yeah, I was just about to say the same thing. Liu is very well scientifically inclined. He is so interesting with how he explains things.

[@FrustratedAeroBoys]

yes.

[@alro11]

he has his own podcast he is brilliant and such a nice human being ❤

[@arlenesobhani8739]

Yes!

[@Sina.g.z]

His answers are really brilliant.

[@lymarisestrada588]

I love when the four of you are together in a video. I learn, think and laugh so much. ❤ Thank you!!

[@sabotagesabotage7927]

I know it’s selfish of me but y’all putting out multiple videos a week has been a blessing to me at least.

[@vince7207]

I'm selfish too... Love it

[@Synthwave89]

Science baby, can't get enough of it.

[@ivandagr857]

Sit down. Bish be humble!

[@Bebymeboo]

Blessing… lol

[@sebclements866]

I CAME HERE TO SAY THE SAME THING.

[@jameshedden2260]

Gotta say, Niel, Chuck, Chuck, and Gary is the best teamup everytime

[@Nefville]

Add Janna Levin and I'd agree

[@jameshedden2260]

@Nefville this is true Janna is also a great guest

[@Nefville]

@@jameshedden2260 That would be like the Startalk Avengers lineup for me 😂

[@ranyawad5971]

Neil my man casually describing the Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum telecommunication technique made my day. He is so good at simplifying and explaining things.

[@Cool_Ishan]

Can we appreciate how smart Chuck has become from the start of startalk

[@RedHeadie_88]

lol, so you're saying he was dumb before?😅

[@FaQYouMean]

Not "smart", educated. 😌

[@BeamMonsterZeus]

We don't "become smart" we become educated

[@nb1843]

whos chuck

[@johnbritolima]

Definitely 😁

[@roberthiltz2741]

I have created the bad (or good?) habit of listening to these powerful conversations with my twelve year old daughter while she is having breakfast and getting ready for school in the morning; I think she has been having her mind blown before addressing the regular learning structure of middle school! At the very least, she goes to school with the knowledge that her dad is a super geek who adores your conversations and theories. Thank you for massive thought provoking thru two generations of my family! ❤️

[@scottycartercom]

StarTalk is by far the best conversation in the Universe!

[@DanceBeforeTheStorm_]

I love how the mutual love and respect fills the atmosphere in these sessions ❤ Humanity at its best. Keep looking up to each other!

[@sankishaya]

I love this show. I get so excited when a new video comes out. THANK YOU

[@itsd0nk]

The all-star team up of star talk right here. Love this group’s dynamic.

[@TheMaestromMephisto]

When I was in high school, I used to hate physics, math, etc., and it was all because of the teachers and the environment we grew in. No one told us about their application to day-to-day activities. Now, as an adult who is out of school, obviously, I'm fascinated by physics. We need to change our education system. The fact that children finish school and celebrate and feel like they are coming out of prison tells you all you need to know about our education system.

[@iverstim]

“Prison”You sound like my 15 year old son lol

[@fractal_aura]

Same here. With what I know now, I would love to be able to do it all over again. I would've loved to get the education necessary to be a scientist. :(

[@johnyepthomi892]

Loved seeing Gary on as well. I love when you 4 get together, that’s my jam 😀.

[@2242Ironwolf]

LOVED this talk! All segments were fun, but segment 2 was mind opening. Both with the points of view on AI and it’s use, and the wormholes being the literal fabric of space. Thank you all for a fun afternoon of provoking thought.

[@MistSoalar]

Charles is such a genius in many ways

[@brianjones6500]

The encryption section of this talk is interesting. Neil suggested that if everything is encrypted it just becomes noise. Keys are required to remove the noise and understand the message. Most of our planets communication is blasted out without encryption. [CIXIN LIU] Wrote the dark forest "3 body problem" trilogy. I grin when I think about the premise that any noise that reaches a higher intelligent life form results in only one option -- silence the noise. As always StarTalk topics make me appreciate science. Thank you.

[@deeorlando6536]

Geek in chief is a very eloquent speaker. Love having Charles on the show.

[@SLADEYBMX]

Would love to see Neil and Chuck at Starfest Australia, they have a night at the local Pub where the scientists and astronomers answer questions from the public. It also happens to be one of the best places on earth to view the stars , Coonabarabran Australia 🇦🇺

[@chefjosephkowles575]

“Beep boop beep boop” is a message we all received 🤖

[@LegendNights]

Just watched Dr. Neil on Stephen Colbert Late Show last night. Love the conversation about AI and you have blow my mind on it. Thanks 👍👍

[@bobjackson6669]

Loved the show. I send these shows to my young grandsons.

[@JS-TexanJeff]

Chuck IS gravity personified! Love it!

[@WildernessGirl21]

Chuck is a cutie pie, has a fantastic smile and even better laugh!

[@Palidine4M0O]

Gotta see that voice animated XD

[@Micah98134]

I died at Chuck’s hypothetical of aliens sending us an encrypted message in pig Latin. 😂😂

[@danaschoen432]

Neil deGrasse Tyson! A man for the ages!

[@cntthnko1111]

What Liu said about education is incredible, great thought. Education really needs to evolve.

[@annmoore6678]

You guys really make me want to up my whole level of thinking and seeing. Because it’s so much FUN!

[@robertlanders5723]

I’m finding these exchanges funnier and funnier… Am I becoming a geek through osmosis ?? 😮

[@Graycy808]

Yes. Enjoy it. Lol

[@the_Acaman]

12:40 about the mass - energy conversion question. I don't think either of you understood what the question was about. The person asking assumed that if someone time travelled, they would disappear from their original position is space and time, and reappear in a new position. So is that appearing and disappearing, basically mass - energy conversions? In the case of reappearing for example (at the target space and time position), how else would someone appear out of thin air, if not for energy being taken away for them to do so. Love the show!

[@nalamonster963]

Love these vids ❤. It makes me regret I never continued school after high school, alot of what they say in these vid feels clear to me & i understand it. Makes me wonder how far i could have gone.

[@EmpyreanLightASMR]

8:00 Chuck and Neil (and especiallllly Chuck) have previously been blown away by Charles Liu's episode-specific recall for details in Star Trek.

[@KarrGalaxyStudios]

Hi Neil, Chuck and Gary! I really look forward to watching these Charles Liu and scifi tie-in episodes! So much fun and education!

[@davecurtis8833]

I went to Brian Cox's Horizon tour down here in Dunedin, NZ and he also mentioned about entangled particles being connected via wormholes.

[@joshualynn9913]

On the question on the graviton. I think its a matter of micro vs macro. Think of an ocean and there are waves. Those waves are comprised of molecules; they are not the molecules themselves. Which, if my understanding is correct, is different from quantum fields where the field is the wave of possibility in which we find the particle.

[@sebclements866]

Boys putting out so many vids this week LOVE IT ❤

[@JMoroccoMisterBoy]

Charles Liu, Chuck, Gary and Neil: Tks. much.

[@wangtoriojackson4315]

I'm not sure why this episode is a Sports Edition, but I'll take more Charles Liu any day of the week.

[@machinarum]

I don’t know but Neil sounded a bit condescending with “nuclear” pronunciation . I liked when Chuck followed: “Gary you can call it however you want”

[@I.M.Q7119]

I think it was more of dig towards GWB. Which was followed by his burn of him. Not to say what you said is any less. But that’s just my interpretation.

[@OneStrangeJourney]

I feel the same way. Love Neil but he’s getting grouchy in his old age!

[@Sina.g.z]

French Alexanderia, how lucky you are for having someone in your life to listen these awesome eipsodes together. I listen it just by myself. Actually this is so much a personal activity for me that I feel maybe these guys only exist in my bubble of universe and they're not actually outside there.

[@paulmichals]

Minor correction @8:04 NG Season 6 Episode 20 is "The Chase".

[@sharkman3376]

Always fun when Charles is on

[@JustAndreaEdna]

30:44 😮 right there along side Chuck. 34:36

[@el_wumberino]

Brilliant! Your show-as a whole-has definitely enriched my live. Thank you very much and keep up the good work.

[@HiddenPalm]

19:45 Charles steals the show with his response.

[@isatousarr7044]

The potential for encrypted alien messages to unravel secrets of the cosmos is fascinating, especially when combined with the principles of quantum mechanics. Could these messages hold the key to understanding the very fabric of our universe?

[@darlenebartos3267]

I love the four of you guys together as well. And throwing Janna Levin in could be interesting!

[@mnpavannag]

Loved all your videos. Question to you both the scientists: Does Time Dilation can predict the future and past? Else, it's the state of Super position? Heard its beyond fundamentals of physics/mathematics.Pls clarify...

[@greatlakesuperiordeepviewsvide]

I have been listening to this on my phone podcast. I am so happy to have the opportunity to see this same show on my PC. I deliver newspapers and this is a pleasure journey show to finally see the characters. So cool and thanks to you all eh, cheers!

[@greatlakesuperiordeepviewsvide]

Chuck looks exactly like I imagined him to be. Expressing himself, eh. Just sayin.

[@GerodW]

I like Chuck lol. His comedic banter and interjections always make me chuckle. 😆

[@TurdLocked]

My Favorite Universe- Neil deGrasse Tyson Lectures a classroom on how the elements are made- I watch that to start my day and listen to the latest StarTalk to end it.

[@R3cce]

Neil’s birthday in 2 days. October 5th 🎉

[@mattgraham5992]

A good use of AI may be to find unknown life. Feed it all kinds of DNA strands and let it evolve life forms. Great show as usual.

[@joeysipos]

AI may me an alien intelligence...being channeled from other dimensions for all we know lol

[@mattgraham5992]

@@joeysipos for got ahold of Chucks weed!!

[@konstantinossfikas4201]

Liu’s comment on AI vs human intelligence and education processes is gold!!

[@timhyatt9185]

I don't want AI to do my homework, or make my art, or anything like that. I want AI to do my dishes, my laundry, mow my lawn and fix stuff around the house so I have time to work on art myself!

[@hopey4100]

Dr. Neil, you are an inspiration to young scientists around the world. I watch you everyday, and you were the sole individual that got me super interested in science to begin with. I’d thank you if I ever met you! And I’d buy you a coffee! Haha ❤

[@arlenesobhani8739]

Thank you for clarifying the pronunciation of "nuclear." It does my Grammar Police State heart good. It's always interesting listening to people whose language is so far above my head. It brings back my lost youth.

[@alro11]

i disagree - sounded like he was punishing a child - i felt bad for Gary

[@I.M.Q7119]

I think Neil might’ve heard Gary say it wrong. But playing it back, I think he said it correctly.

[@followmepeon]

Please don’t stop making such amazing content, we all need more of this in our lives!

[@gadwaboy21]

I came here from Film Theory Rick and Morty Portal Gun episode. I enjoy space and wormholes, etc. I’ll be viewing regularly and giving a like.

[@ziggy_425]

That episode of Star Trek, the chase, is one of my favorite episodes!!

[@patludwig1971]

Everyone is fabulous. I only click this beast when my head hasn't exploded recently enough. Y'all do a nuculur job ❤

[@diegofire247shorts7]

I love that chuck is here

[@dnf7778]

Wicked show guys, love all the guests on the special edition

[@dbijenhof]

11:30 - Well, the answer is 42, but indeed, what is The Question (of Life, the Universe and Everything)...?

[@morgunstyles7253]

39:49 i think shes asking , from another vantage point, would Orion (and the other constellations) appear to them as it does to us from our vantage point.

[@RevP369]

34:56 I didn’t realize gravity was Bushwick Billy 🤣🤙🏾

[@stevevargo6554]

We need more Neil de Grasse Tysons

[@Mee399]

Love you chuck✨❤️😊 These videos with all the great scientists are undoubtedly great but you are like, atleast from my subjective point of view, like the Constants that make equations! Crazy metaphor 😁but in short,I love, you being in these talks😊❤

[@michaelngamba1820]

Probably the most intellectual conversation ive ever heard

[@PatriciaOConnorBonsaiBalcony]

A short time back you mentioned a photon leaving the sun and the length of time it it would take. But to the photon it gose from its creation to kissing our face in the same instant. My question is will the first thing with a perspective to go the speed of light witness the end of time in that same instant?

[@anubisantas]

It would be the greatest show of all getting Chuck Liu and Lawrence Krauss together talking about star trek, like Krauss' book.

[@PioneerPauly]

I would celebrate so hard (even if by myself) if we shared DNA with another life form outside of our planet. That would be so cool.

[@PatrickEthen]

I thumbs upped this because Neil corrected the pronunciation of Nuclear. :D

[@karukoffa4779]

20:40 He said it ......

[@christiancabeza4169]

Neil is such a fan of Charles Lui I love it❤

[@RandomJ2023]

Sir, as we appreciate your questions and quest for insight, we are unable to release our secrets yet. Try again another time. 😊

[@mikedavis5877]

All of you men are total legends! My wife thinks your 2 smart for your own good!

[@JT_771]

Thanks Chuck, for closing out gravities' sauce at the end.

[@donnah3910]

You all make us smarter!

[@sammo7877]

Anyone else couldn't help but stare at that thing above Charles Liu's door? What was it and why did it look like that over the camera feed

[@sekaramochi]

Another amazing video Love you guys Please please please never stop ♥️

[@christophiluslovingchristb5441]

I like Star Trek IV, the movie about going back in time to bring back the whales. They encountered an alien species that communicated in the way whales do. This had me thinking, if we haven't even deciphered Dolphin or Orca, Earth creatures, might we encounter intellectual beings that communicate in way undecipherable to us. - I'm in my 50 and have thought about this very thing since it hit the box office in 1986. Interesting topic! (I actually saw each Star Trek movie I - IV the week they came out. I've been amazed at Roddenberry's influence on technology. )

[@sandal_thong8631]

It's possible that that movie may have helped save the whales.

[@randysmith9715]

Information experts have proven that dolphins clicks and whistles contain information. So they are communicating.

[@sandal_thong8631]

@@RenataKleinRK The only thing I heard was someone named Adams translated chirps to "So long and thanks for all the fish."

[@solidreactor]

Chucks personality is gravitating :)

[@peternmimurray]

Professor Tyson, thank you very much for pronouncing nuclear properly.

[@turtleboy4111]

19:40 Yeah, their names are Unicron (the Chaos Bringer). And Primus (the Life Creator God). Till all are one.

[@RaspberryBibingka]

This is the best crew!

[@ShinyStation]

The Crew is back! 🎉

[@JustAndreaEdna]

I'm with you all the way up until the warm hole. The connective element has to be something different entirely. Maybe I work too much with literal fabric and I just can't wrap my brain around the explanation.

[@Sammasambuddha]

Mmmm....warm hole.

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

Wormholes are different than you're visualizing them. Tiny wormholes smaller than your optical machinery can perceive are the mechanisms that bridge all of space-time. The math works. Now we need experimental evidence. ER = EPR Einstein Rose Bridges (wormholes) = Einstein Podolsky Rosen Correlations (entanglement)

[@bethwhite2857]

Loved the talk 👍

[@bmelloyello]

ok question: If you imagine a giant basketball in space, and you dribble the basketball, you create gravitational waves in the fabric of space, right? if there was a ship, sitting some distance away from the basketball, could you somehow ride the gravitational waves? The waves could start slowly and increase frequency until it hits a resonant frequency with the ship? could we find a way to push the ship or do you think the waves could eventually just rip the ship apart? (If this idea is the ticket to interstellar travel I take all credit and want the first colony in Alpha Centauri named after me)

[@LightDiodeNeal]

Brilliant, every episode. Thanks from here, great show again.. 🙂 NEAL

[@Kushey4025]

I'll be completely honest I have no idea what they are talking about 😂😂. But I can't stop watching these videos. Keep up the awesome content

[@AEady24]

Love this show❤

[@kencoledc]

Great episode!

[@LogicalNiko]

I think on the subject of particles and fields, both are are human abstraction to describe reality. Fields and particles and their interactions are the best way we have to mathematically model the interactions and understandable concepts that our brains can interpret. We know that these “elements “of reality are more complex than we can conceptualize at the moment so we have to do create models to describe those models are particles and fields

[@feynmanschwingere_mc2270]

Great comment. Wittgenstein, ironically, was the first to grasp this (well Plato did first, probably even some great thinker before Plato, but Wittgenstein gave it more rigor). The problem boils down to LANGUAGE. It's our super power. I'll leave you with that 😉

[@LogicalNiko]

@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 ironically in college I used to do public tours of CAVE systems way back before VR was practical (Cave Automated Virtual Environment). And the “Cave” part was a reference to Plato. So I don’t know how many times I explained Plato to people. Some is language, also our brains are developed to deal with the physical world through our limited senses. So much of our ability to hold concepts in our mind is derived by this. We cannot hold true concepts of infinity, multiple higher dimensions, things that exist without physical components. For example, We have to reduce particles into ideas of spheres and then get confused when they do not behave like spheres ( quantum effects for example). They are not actually the mental model we hold in our head, and at some point all models fail to accurately describe what they were designed to emulate. Some of these things we will probably never be able to understand outside of mathematical equations until we find a way to augment our world with additional toolsets. The aforementioned VR systems were one of those early toolsets; eventually I suspect neural interfaces into our brains will allow us to hold concepts we never could think about before.

[@seanpreston3653]

Excellent video 🍻 👏

[@MichaelSmith420fu]

I feel like words like "thing" or "particle" suggest a sperate specific #1 in some formal way. Is that right? What about the particle makes it district?

[@geekexmachina]

Personally as a variation of the time travel question, if you were to do time travel into the past assuming that whatever arrives is intact then we are saying that the destination spacetime will now have more matter than it had. How much extra matter suddenly appearing in the universe will it take to have lots of consequences and certainly if there was repeated time travel piling up extra matter into the past. Also if this had happened would we have detected it in the universe. BTW regarding the hiding aliens there was an episode of Space 1999 where an alien race stopped the moon base crew from colonizing by making the moon temprarily habitable until it was out of range

[@Steven-vw1sv]

Hey professor Tyson , I like the VAn Gogh - Starry Night , is it? Just about my favorite artist and painting... God bless you and your family ...

[@wigglewaggle2366]

15:31 anyone else ever wonder if a disturbance in whatever system we have that makes us not realize we're spinning and rotating in space shows as vertigo?

[@wigglewaggle2366]

The relevance is how does someone even know to wonder that. If there is anyone else that has wondered this please also include some context as to why.

[@MNbenMN]

​@@wigglewaggle2366If you can turn around a corner without succumbing to vertigo, why would a rotation that takes an entire day, or year, cause any vertigo?

[@milosterwheeler2520]

What if A.I. formulates a question so sophisticated and receives an alien answer so complicated that humans don't comprehend either? Are we then in "Colossus: The Forbin Project" territory?

[@128Benja]

To a regular user, the use of a.i could come to the ends of completing thoughts conveyed in text in many types of arranges and articulation. To a what would be an I.T admin user, a.i could be to ends of encryption, calculations, and code for different types of iterations. We could go on different types of jobs and the limitation of the jobs scope itself. Scientists and mathematicians could use a.i to store repositories of the methodologies itself, which could be a basic core, but the construction from it could not differ much from the way we approve of scientific methodologies. Instead of just limiting a.i to scopes of singular organic jobs, the possibilities to craft and encode a core that could be responsible and do the calculation in quantum speed could not only expand, affix, reconstruct, and correct things we have been doing from the biggining of time. If this comes to be socially accepted, new jobs will appear, and old ones will disappear. Just like candle crafting went down because of bulbs, or library lower since the internet can respond you in a second from just typing. A while new civilisation chapter would start and the memory of the old one would look ennificient, old, long ago, could have a possibility that in the far future it could turn into a new "before common era" marking in human time. Work would totally have to be worth it and simpler, education targeted into a new educational project to target things that are important for adulthood such as project management, self-economics, ethnic studies, international studies, methodology, language, etc...