Thanks, Neil. I understood nothing.

Neil: "What you doing?" Me: "Nothing" Neil: " Let's talk about that, son."

Neil is the only guy that can talk for 13+ minutes about LITERALLY NOTHING

No slides, no animations, no special effects... and yet he explains complex concepts so effortlessly! Hat's off to you Neil!!! I wish I had such teachers during my school and college days. Each episode you do is an eye-opener. And Chuck is great too, representing us with our thoughts, queries and amazement! Keep it up guys!

Now I understand the quote - *"Nothing is Impossible"* 👍

Guy to girl: Hey babe what's wrong? Girl: Nothing. Run.

When I was in High School, I wasn't interested in science at all. And now that I am older and retired, I'd like to know more and more about science. I think it is mainly because of Neil who is an excellent teacher and makes the subject very interesting and fascinating. Thanks and kudos. Keep on educating us for it is significant that we understand what goes on around us, the earth, the seasons, the gravity pull, atoms, protons, molecules, et al. Wish you all the best.

Niel is the most entertaining, enthusiastic and intelligent science communicator today. He Never ceases to blow my mind.

Imagine if he had to talk about 'something'. Would take forever.

Whitney Houston: “ 🎶 ...I have nothing, nothing, nothing... 🎶” Neil: Now hold on for a second there...

In 1967 when I was 10 my grandfather, a small town electrician with no high school diploma in southeast Ohio, spoke philosophically to us kids... "I can understand the concept of everything but I can't understand the concept of nothing." He also said about the universe "I can understand 'will always exist' but I can't understand 'has always existed.'

It is always fun to listen to Dr. Tyson, discussions, regarding science and nothing. Chuck said it best. Nothing is something!

Chuck has my dream job: getting educated in a plethora of interesting fields by actual experts, in a causal setting where you can ask questions , and there’s not even an expectation of being smart: they just ask you to make jokes to appeal to the other average joes. What could be better?

Mom: "What is this guy talking about?" Me: "Nothing." Mom: "???"

I watched it high first and I'm mesmerized. Thanks for what you guys do. Love it.

I was hoping to hear about black holes in the discussion. Thanks for the edification.

"There's not matter, not energy, not even the laws of physics" they're describing my bank balance.

Title: "Tyson explains nothing" Video : *13 minutes long* Me: hmm, seems legit.

Believe it or not, having nothing is one of my scariest dreams/ or nightmare. I dreamt about a dark place one day that space is being sucked into a vacuum and the space in a deep darkness, I was losing air and view of an immediate viewable space to a point that I almost not see a space in a complete darkness waking up panicking gasping for air, I was totally scared beyond words. Until now I get uneasy remembering it, what if big bang (as explained by scientists) didn't happen or what if creation as depicted in the Bible didn't occur? This gives me appreciation that I exist and the place that I can see and live in also exist.

I love these two. Neil can blow Chuck's mind, but then Chuck cracks him up

When you ask you clearly upset girlfriend, "what's the matter?": - "Nothing."

Neil gets an empty box for christmas Neil : “ OH BOY !!! “

For those that like this kind of topic, there’s an amazing graphic novel called Logicomix. Even if you don’t like graphic novels, you won’t be able to put this down. The last part of what Neil was talking about is the philosophy of language, which is what Wittgenstein basically said all philosophy boils down to. And if you read this far, let me digress (not to be confused with deGrasse) a little further. Doesn’t Neil sort of make Wittgenstein’s argument here? In school we used to argue about which science was the science to rule them all. Biologists, chemists, and physicists all had a go to say they were on top, but I always felt it was Philosophy. “Philosophy, that’s not even a science. Are you crazy?” they said. True, Philosophy gets has the rep that it was supplanted by science in the search for truth and supplanted by religion in the search for wisdom. But when you really get down to it, Philosophy has the most grounded appreciation of the boundaries of reality. Every day, physicists discover amazing things about the material universe; yet, when an astrophysicist tries to explain the concept of ’nothing,’ as he strips away everything he can describe he realizes the concept itself starts to make less sense. This is because we do not interface with reality directly, we do so through the senses and, importantly, through language.

Wonderfull discussion with a lot of humor and strait thinking 🎉

Showed this to my wife, she replied. "I know now what I'm getting you for your birthday."

Chuck's delivery of that 'oh god...' after Neil mentioned quantum physics is just so perfect 🤣🤣🤣

Just getting into your show I’m so glad you make science funny!! Sad you didn’t make it to the solar eclipse event in Dallas

This is my favourite Star Talk Video

All this man wanted was nothing, and Neil couldn’t even give him that😂😂

"There's snakes in space?!" "There's literally everything in space, Morty!!!"

Niel i have question regarding time Say u were in intergalactic space and in the empty space would u still count time as though it was a small unit i.e using sec, hrs n mins or would u use a different scale _ what im trying to get at is there a different time scale n would u say that time increases ( 1 sec )the more space increases

I was so received that I finally knew what nothing was, but then Neil went "BUT I DESCRIBED IT SO NOW ITS A THING" and my soul broke

"What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind!" -Homer Simpson

You know what ? I just learned NOTHING.

thanks for the gift idea!! a very well thought gift

The biggest nothing in the Observable Universe: my bank account.

I'm watching this. I was supposed to be doing work. Mom walked in and asked "What are you watching?" I replied with "Nothing, Mom." She asked "Lemme see" so I showed her. I didn't lie but now I'm grounded.

Love the banter and humor almost as much as the physics of it! Real fun.

Great discussion with humor. Super!

I wish Neil was my seventh grade science teacher! I might have learned something and been interested in it... at 69 years old I'm glad I finally found a teacher of science I can listen to and I will learn all I have missed. Thanks

So the instant you think of it, it becomes an idea, and is immediately something.

Never stop sharing the knowledge, the laughs, and the unguided stories.

Omg, I love the two of you 😅 You make me smile on a bleak day❤

Neil has the best laugh. So genuine. And it’s about particle physics.

“The Three Oddest Words” by Wislawa Szymborska When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. When I pronounce the word Nothing, I make something no non-being can hold.

One time I was very high and I thought about this. What if we can go beyond the universe? Beyond everything? What would be there? I kept repeating to myself “even that nothingness is still within a paradigm of something” it’s just wild to think about. There can never be nothing because it will always be within something. There’s so much we don’t understand and I don’t think we ever will.

“The nothing that is something which is nothing” is the perfect conclusion, good for Chuck!

I clicked expecting Neil to be quiet for +10 minutes.

If I had a science teacher like Neil, I would have been a scientist! I love this channel! I love learning and I’m in my 60’s!

First time seeing this channel. Chuck is absolutely hilarious 😂

A good example of how limiting language can be. What trying to explain can only be experienced. Namaste🙏🏾

I dont understand nothing

You can travel through a whole lot of nothing without noticing. 😆

I also understood nothing. Beautifully explained. Simple explanation to something that is nothing. Chuck rightly said "sothing". I will say both of you are "soothing" to hear. Well done.

i love watching star talk blasted

So, the moral is that our universe dislikes “nothing” so much that “nothing” cannot exist....

This is why "the nothing" from The Never Ending Story was so terrifying to me.

@11:40 “Philosophy” that’s great

This is one of the best videos of all time ❤

What a great “educational” comedy team! I love learning and laughing at the same time!

"If you want and smoke your marihuana" Buddy, how do you think i ended up in this video?

Sorry of being late, I have two points/questions to make: 1. before the big bang when all the matter was a tiny ball, wasn't "nothing" around it? 2. We know now that the universe expands every second, so isn't the area that universe is not there yet "nothing"? I really hope one day you read this. Until then thanks for training my brain!

I just saw this. My thought: "Whoopee! Mad scientists!" I'm subscribing!

The dynamic of this show is so underrated and overlooked. I absolutely love how these two communicate their different ways of thinking.

When Chuck said "Not with my carrier", I felt that.

The more I watch these the more amazed I am by creation and it's Source. Just wow... WOW!

We have to trust that science is right to have our own thoughts to ponder. I'm fairly normal and I'm not perfect nor any human being. Just by throwing that in the mix gives me great concern about when and about what that imperfection is about.

Always a great pleasure to hear and see Dr. Tyson. Brilliant mind.

Neil trying to imagine The Nothing and explain it to us - while i was having a Michael Ende's 'The Neverending Story' flashback.. The Nothing cannot be named, explained, understood or even imagined; therefore, Nothing is the absence of imagination, creativity.

Question: What is nothing? Answer: it isn't

@9:27 wow “Laws of Physics in NOTHING” my heart skipped a beat

My smile watching this video kept going wider and wider as it went. (I did have some weed just before, but still, this was awesome ! )

Jeeeez These two smoking a bowl talking about “nothing” would be a whole other show.

"Nothing" is impossible.

Dis is one of da best deleted scenes from "Idiocracy" EVER!

👍🏻💎Thank you for all the knowledge you both share to the world 🥇💎👍🏻

"You moment you try to describe nothing, you've filled it with something."

*:Neil when he opens an empty box:* THeRe IS OnlY sOmE OxyGeN MoLEcuLeS In HeRe

“Nothing is easy, though times get you worrying, my friend, it’s okay” - Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) 😎🎸

These clips remind me of when I was a TA in college and I would be trying to set up a lesson plan for the next class with the professor and he would just take the time to destroy my brain for fun.

Me watching this at 2 a.m. while high: "Woah"

I've never seen anyone talk about nothing for 13 minutes straight and still be this entertaining and insightful. Lol

They're at it again ✨

One must even take a “void” out of the picture when contemplating nothing. Because even that is, yes, something.

Hey Dr T, are those insect collections on the wall behind you? I grew up doing the same thing for years when I wasn't looking through my telescope at the rest of the universe ;)

7:58 actually had me.

As I'm watching this, I'm thinking about a Star Talk - Mind Field Cross-Over... Michael Stevens & Neil de Grasse Tyson... That would be perfect...

Ygritte- "You know nothing, Jon snow" Jon after watching this video- 😏

Your videos are satisfying, because every other scientists I observed so far seems to me so dumb, which they are not! but they make me feel they are so dumb. You teach stuff so simple, I love it! Thankyou

The absence of something. Added to watchlist!

Neil is a really cool scientist. Thank you for explaining really complicated stuff so easily for everyone to understand.

I felt that "not with my carrier" joke, lol.

You picked the best co host I love watching your videos! I learn and laugh everytime thank you guys

No guys stop it please... you're just TOO GOOD together. I watched "oh god" (after Neil said "quantum physics") at least 4 times. I know this comment will drop into nothingness, but how much I would love an answer on the question I'm about to write. I found strong similarities(if not exact same concepts) with quantum physics and some of the eastern cultures. Some concepts about Buddhism are so similar to quantum physics that its terrific. I really can't take my head of this thought: the fact that they seemed to have focused their research into the existential and experiential side of the spectrum of life. Differently from the western culture which has developed the "external" research. We're directed outward. They are inward. If I'm not exaggerating in this next words, we could say that science, even with its own beautiful and surely useful efforts, finds itself in front of a wall when trying to determine what consciousness might be. Simply because you can't prove it exists. Question is: If there is nothing to observe, but you can still experience or describe nothing (as you two were saying), who is doing that? Who is experiencing suthing?? Who can describe nothing? I'm asking who's the operator doing this operation. Other question, connected to this one is: If I knew every atom in your body, would I know who you are? "Who" is the question that these cultures have explored and they seemed to have touched the same exact results that science has. Which makes perfect sense to me. In fact, as long as everything is life, even ourselves, if we start a research from one side or the other (if the objective is the same: truth) the result should still be the same. You're meddling with the same thing: "reality", just from two different directions. Though, if the fact that science limits itself to what it can prove, also obviosuly suggests that if there were to be things that are unprovable but still existing, then you can't say that you're looking for the theory of everything. And you'll never know that, because you can't prove them. I think it's a very basic logical "mistake" (please don't get me wrong I'm absolutely not saying that science is useless.... away... far away from that. I'm just saying that it should not be too strict in its approaches, even though they might be very useful as they certainly are. Though, if you want to be strict, and just observe what is provable with your method, then say that you're looking for the theory of something. Or of some part of this reality, and not of everything. Certainly, if existing things that can't be proven by science exist, as consciousness might be, science will never know about them. So I'm just suggesting an exchange of points of views between these two wonderful ways of research. I love science, I love this reality, I love these two guys spreading happiness and beautiful information together.

it's three in the morning in Athens & I'm extremely tired but...I've been sitting on my couch for the last two hours, binge watching startalk and i literally can't stop. you're both great. thanks for explaining all these wonderful things.

Nobody: nothing Neil: Let's talk about that

This man deserves everyone's subscription

Lol you guys still make me laugh 😅 and learning cool stuff.✌️😎✌️

I finally have an argument for my wife about how I missed our first anniversary.

I've always heard the saying "nothing is impossible" when I was a child. When I grew up, I realized that not everything is possible. However, the concept of nothing, is impossible.