Cosmic Queries StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

Our second StarTalk book published with National Geographic called Cosmic Queries has an entire section on how astronomers find distances to things in the universe. And it was called the distance ladder.

Go buy the damn book. That's the lazy answer. Read the book.

Nice big fat book makes a good gift. Makes a good gift.

And all of that is in Cosmic Queries. All of it. All of it. All of it. In a whole section called the Cosmic Distance Ladder.

I guess now you don't have to buy the book. But you kind of do because you need to go through it.

So we devote a fair number of pages in the Cosmic Queries book, which I think you can click by it on our website, startalkmedia.com.

And by the way, in the Cosmic Queries book, book, okay? That's one of the installments of the StarTalk book series in collaboration with National Geographic.

In that book, there's an entire chapter.

There's an entire chapter on how the universe will die. And it has all the ways.

And it describes how the multiverse gives us all these different combinations of size, laws of physics, and the like.

So it's a fun read. So check it out.

Oh, by the way, there's a whole chapter in my next book on life and death where all these topics are addressed in case you want to read up on them even further.

And we talk about Big Rip in the StarTalk book, Cosmic Queries.

And if you pick that up, there's a whole section on ways the universe can end.

In our second Star Talk book, guess what it was titled, Chuck?

Cosmic Queries.

So if you get that book, you'll have way more conversation about it than anything I just laid down to this report.

In the future of the universe. The crisis of cosmology.

I think it's in there. In the future of the universe. The crisis of cosmology.

I'm getting this from a book that is coming out this fall. It's the third installment of a StarTalk book in a collaboration with National Geographic.

It's a book I've co-written with one of our senior producers, Lindsay Walker.

Uh, in 1945, a Dutch meteorologist, C.H.D. Boisballet... Interesting name there. Wow. Conducted a simple yet brilliant experiment to demonstrate the Doppler effect to anyone in doubt.

By the way, the namesake of this format, Cosmic Queries, became a book published by National Geographic a couple of years ago, and there's an entire section on how the universe will end.

What you just said over the last four minutes, there's an entire chapter in the StarTalk book called Cosmic Queries on that subject. And it's called Cosmic Tension and it tells you how you get the distances and the standard candles and the microwave background and the conflict. It's all in a book, Cosmic Queries, inspired by the fact that we actually have these kinds of conversations.

Ed, doggone it, your book is always number one in astrophysics and I'm getting tired of you, okay?

Our recent book, StarTalk Cosmic Queries, there's a whole section on the formation of star systems and this migratory process. So I invite you to check out that book. It's a fun book, and it's published by National Geographic.

And it was one of our engineers and editors and producers, Lindsey Walker, was a major contributor to that, just making it shape, star-talkifying the content to make sure that any StarTalk fan feels like they are at home in that book. And so we got this.

Dr. Tyson, just love you and love your Cosmic Queries book.

We have to show this is available downstairs in the exhibit hall So please remember that this is Andrews book start track the official guide to our universe Okay, and this is Star talk the book with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Oh, yes, indeed. So, thanks for mentioning that because I almost forgot. I probably wouldn't have forgotten by the end, but there's a book called Cosmic Queries because this format was so successful, we said we've got to do more than just put it out there as a podcast.

So, there's a book called Cosmic Queries that takes all the biggest questions, including this one. And much of Sarah's research that informs this field is contained in that chapter.

And also your book as well, Neil. We've got to give that another plug.

Oh, sorry. Another plug for Cosmic Queries. If you like this format and if you're listening, you probably do because it's one of our most popular. We just put it all in one book.

And the reason why it's a shame, maybe it's not shameless, maybe it's full of shame. The point is, it's, the title of the book is Cosmic Queries. And this is a Cosmic Queries edition of StarTalk.

And so it's questions, 10 chapters, and each chapter is a really deep question that we barely have time to address given the nature of what we normally do in a Cosmic Queries.

it's published by National Geographic Books, who published the first StarTalk book.

This is a celebration of the release of the second StarTalk book called Cosmic Queries, inspired by this spinoff of our show.

We're gonna have different guests for the different kinds of chapters that are in the book.

And the reason why it's a shame, maybe it's not shameless, maybe it's full of shame. The point is, it's, the title of the book is Cosmic Queries. And this is a Cosmic Queries edition of StarTalk.

And so it's questions, 10 chapters, and each chapter is a really deep question that we barely have time to address given the nature of what we normally do in a Cosmic Queries.

This is a celebration of the release of the second StarTalk book called Cosmic Queries, inspired by this spinoff of our show.

By the way, we're gonna have different guests for the different kinds of chapters that are in the book.

And in fact, the final chapter of the Cosmic Queries book takes you there. The great rip.

By the way, I'm compelled that this format inspired a book, a StarTalk book called Cosmic Queries.

So we collected the deepest questions ever asked and we put them in the Cosmic Queries book.

By the way, there's a whole section of one of the chapters in the Cosmic Query book on this.

And so I'm gonna pull rank here and say, buy the damn book when it comes out.

Beyond that little bit of simple language, there's an entire section of the Cosmic Queries book that specifically addresses all the scenarios of how we will end.

In fact, StarTalk has another book coming out. Do you know this? In the spring?

You know what that book is called? The Big Rip?

I shouldn't be announcing yet because I don't think it's on shelves yet. Because they're still in production. So don't look for it yet. But it's called Cosmic Queries.

And in there is the whole discussion about the expansion of the universe and how it could, in one scenario, could end up in the big rip.

In which case all of the nesting doll scenarios described by... What's the person's name again? Isom. Isom will be realized. And that'll be the end of the universe as we know it.

We have to show this is available downstairs in the exhibit hall So please remember that this is Andrews book Star Trek the official guide to our universe Okay, and this is Star talk the book with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

the newest one anyway is called cosmic queries star talks guide to who we are, how we got here and where we're going

and it's not these are questions we have answers to it's these are questions that have preoccupied us in civilization for millennia

so we address those questions in the book whether or not we have an answer for them

so because in the end you need to learn to love the questions themselves

because they're in are the doorways to learning and understanding and enlightenment

The newest one anyway is called Cosmic Queries, StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, how we got here, and where we're going.

...it's all about a celebration of questions and it's not these are questions we have answers to, it's these are questions that have preoccupied us in civilization for millennia...

...and so we address those questions in the book whether or not we have an answer for them because in the end you need to learn to love the questions themselves because they're in are the doorways to learning and understanding and enlightenment.