Can you measure time without something moving? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice tackle your cosmic questions, from the Silurian Hypothesis to singularities to the edge of the known universe. We ponder the relationship between time and motion. Does all time require motion, or can it exist on its own? Can you measure time without something that repeats? Then, Neil sheepishly recommends a book every 12-year-old should read (yes, it’s his). Plus, what would the universe look like from its edge? What lies beyond our cosmic horizon, and could we ever see it? We explore the Silurian Hypothesis and whether a pre-human civilization might be forever lost under Earth’s shifting crust. If an intelligent species lived on Earth millions of years before us, would we even know? Chuck recalls a certain dinosaur sitcom, while Neil considers how crustal subduction buries geological records. What’s the timescale for Earth’s crust to recycle every trace of a lost civilization? Then it’s off to black holes: Is the singularity at the heart of a black hole real, or just a mathematical glitch?
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