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Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice discuss various astrophysical concepts with guest Michelle Thaller.

Could spacetime curve in the opposite direction and produce a repulsive field instead of gravity? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice tackle fan questions about photons, heat death, gravitational waves, neutron stars and more with astrophysicist Michelle Thaller.

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