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Smart Girl Dumb Questions: Neil DeGrasse Tyson on “Are We Living in a Simulation?”

2025/6/8
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以主持《宇宙：时空之旅》和《星谈》等科学节目而闻名的美国天体物理学家和科学传播者。
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: 我认为将小行星撞击地球的可能性从1%提高到3%的新闻价值在于，它训练人们关注科学进展。小行星是可能杀死我们的天体中，最大且最容易被探测到的。 Nayeema Raza: 我认为尼尔关于我们是否生活在模拟中的回答，既科学又数学，因为没有证据反对它，而且可能有证据支持它。尼尔对我们日益增长的对科学的不信任和怀疑的回答让我感到非常难过。我想呼吁世界各地的负重力物质资助者，资助那些正在研究虫洞的大学或研究人员。

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Today on STBYM, we’re bringing you an episode on the Cosmos from a new podcast: Smart Girl Dumb Questions). In each episode, host Nayeema Raza asks simple questions to big thinkers. This one is with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Nayeema asks him: what happened before the Big Bang? Would wormholes save us from ever going to the airport again? Do aliens exist? And, oh yes, are horoscopes real?

If you like this episode of Smart Girl Dumb Questions, you can find more SGDQ with Mark Cuban on capitalism, Kenji Lopez on food science and 11 Year Olds on what kids do all day  here).

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