StarTalk x The Film Theorists: Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Science of Rick and Morty
Wubba lubba dub dub! On this very special video of StarTalk Radio we’re teaming up with @The Film Theorists to explore the science of Rick and Morty! Neil deGrasse Tyson is joined by comic co-host Chuck Nice and MatPat of The Film Theorists to dive into some iconic science portrayed on one of the most popular animated shows in recent years.
Discover more about dark matter. Rick uses dark matter to power his spaceship but MatPat wants to know if that’s actually scientifically possible. Neil tells us why the show might say dark matter but actually mean dark energy. You’ll learn more about the differences between the two and why dark energy would be more capable of being used over dark matter.
We also dive into antimatter. On Season 2, Episode 2, Rick and Morty of have to destroy a gaseous being named Fart and they do so by using an antimatter gun. So, what exactly is antimatter? Neil explains why antimatter is the “favorite fuel of science fiction” and just how antimatter works in real life.
All that, plus, we explore the multiverse of Rick and Morty with The Film Theorists right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHcaQo4fmdM
About the prints that flank Neil in this video:
“Black Swan” & “White Swan” limited edition serigraph prints by Coast Salish artist Jane Kwatleematt Marston. Please visit Inuit Gallery of Vancouver, https://inuit.com/ for more information about this artist and her work.
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/startalkradio
Subscribe to StarTalk: https://www.youtube.com/user/startalkradio?sub_confirmation=1
Follow StarTalk:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/startalkradio
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StarTalk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/startalkradio/
About StarTalk:
Science meets pop culture on StarTalk! Astrophysicist & Hayden Planetarium director Neil deGrasse Tyson, his comic co-hosts, guest celebrities & scientists discuss astronomy, physics, and everything else about life in the universe. Keep Looking Up!
#StarTalk #NeildeGrasseTyson #RickandMorty
welp i guess they’ve passed a million
that’s a lot of subs i mean i just watched the film theory video
and he already got the Gold Play Button
Same
Me too
Me too
Same. I just watched it, got over here, and saw 1.05M subs. The video launched 15 HOURS AGO.
Imagine an antimatter and matter engine. It could find a particle of matter and the respective anti-matter and contain the explosion
Matt Harding
Antimatter: I’m too weak
‘Matter’ has entered the chat
Antimatter: *ULTIMATE POWER!!!!!!!!!!!*
You need dilithium crystals to contain and control the steady stream of explosions.
but you still need to make the antimatter corresponding to the matter that you would put inside the engine, therefore the fuel would not be free
@Donnyboi Humans really aren’t that selfish, we just live in a system that rewards being selfish. Also, it would be far from the first example of manufactured scarcity, which is to say someone taking full control of the supply of a thing and then limiting everyone else’s access to that supply.
Hastur 3333 you mean diamonds? Or the historical examples of merchant f*****y that led to famines?
Doesn’t his ship run off that small universe he keeps in a box 😂
@Draconis The Wyvern he still has an engine and everything else in his car. It’s just that your car needs a battery to run.
A battery is just what runs like the radio and windshelid wipers, stuff like that. The actual thing that runs the ship itself and helps it drive is the fuel, that may or may not be dark matter lol
@Draconis The Wyvern no, it just didn’t have enough to start, the ship was powered the whole time keeping summer safe, remember?
no it runs off plot convenience
mild soup but the ships engine was already started when it crashed. It was using emergency power to power the AI defense.
3 hours later….
“Send him the gold, MatPat convinced them.”
I died when they started joking around about particle accelerators in churches. It’s 3am and I legit started laughing incredibly hard in near complete darkness by myself. Both my cat and my dog are staring at me as though I’ve lost it. I think they’re concerned.
the father, the anti father, and the holy fatherion
Wow
Chase Brady a a x a b!,
Was the ghost hidden in the dark concerned too
@Ayda Moftah the snake will judge you but you will never know, they’re not only slithery but sly as well 😂
Your thoughts on the science in “Cells at Work” and “Dr. Stone”
Or Astra Lost in Space, that show was mesmerizing
@Sketchy Doodhis actually an astrophysics
Throw in Stein’s Gate and Fullmetal Alchemist and I’m sold.
I had never thought to ask NDT about anime but thats a fantastic idea. Those are both great examples but there’s so many choices. Anything involving space in particular. Thinking Bebop, Trigun or even Gurren Lagann. I wanna hear Neil to explain to me the forces required for a giant mech to chuck an entire galaxy like a shuriken!
@Sketchy Dood No shortage of anime set in space. Thats right in his wheelhouse and he could go on for years without covering all of them
6:06 “Dark matter doesn’t interact with itself”
“You can’t concentrate dark matter”
Dark matter does interact gravitationally, so wouldn’t it still clump together into something like stars/planets? It wouldn’t have any kind of chemical processes or fusion, so the “stars” wouldn’t shine for example, but it *would* self-concentrate, right?
@MeowPlayZ So basically the Stranger Things, Upside Down is real? XD That would be a funny twist.
@valkarnitewolf999 rogue planets?
@mya field I like the idea of a universe were the laws of physics are different.
its matter that we can’t see or touch. so thinking it would interact in this way is just you expressing what you seen matter we can see and touch would interact like.
Dark matter is just such a misleading name…. Literally all we know about dark matter is that we can detect/measure a bunch of gravity everywhere but can’t explain what’s causing it. It really is a matter of ‘not yet sufficient data’.
It seems logical that it wouldn’t clump together like tyson said cause then we would detect it in discrete chunks as apposed to everywhere but that’s just a layman’s interpretation.
“the cidadel of tysons” no i just think sans
*M E G A L O V A N I A INTENSIFIES*
Also lots of chucks that walk around with him
I love the fact that Neil deGrasse Tyson, one of this generations’ smartest minds,references movies instead of books
He is not the smartest, hes just a guy that got famous for another unfunny meme
https://youtu.be/TQ66ZCsksoA
Smart or not … that’s relative
but what’s fact is, he’s an expert in his field
Neil probably watches the movies because he doesn’t have time to read fiction novels. Too busy being one of the smartest people his generation!
I don’t think Neil considers himself among the “smartest”, he is definitely one of the most gregarious among astrophysics though. I haven’t read host papers though. I don’t know.
Me: Alright, let’s do this! *Shoots functioning Portal Gun to come over here*
Matpat: help him reach one million
Viewers: Ladies and gentlemen we got em
Yessir
I did check it out but I m not someone who subscribed to all YouTubers I watch but I m subscribed to game thoery and film thoery
They deserved it
in like two hours too
I woild love to say I helped, but I was already subscribed *puts sunglasses on* YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH 😎
Technically, regarding the many worlds interpretation, why don’t you just include laws of our universe, as would be with the multiverse interpretation, through declaring the decision of the laws of our universe a post or near big bang event with multiple outcomes, through which you ingrain all of reality around a single point or seed, from which all arises?
I literally am not smart enough to understand this. Can someone dumb this down a small bit? (Not a ton but still)
@Yoshikage Kira op means to suggest that the multiverse interpretation, the one where other universes might have different laws, can also be part of the many-worlds-interpretation. It’s possible that some or all laws of the universe were decided near the time of the big bang and in parallel timelines there were different outcomes, thus different laws.
op probably also meant to say “regarding the *multiverse” interpretation so that typo might’ve confused you
@Ayush Wardhan thx for catch
if everything did start from a point, then maybe some uncertainty was there. but i like my quantum physics deterministic
Cartoon character: **runs off cliff**
Cartoon character: **notices**
*Gravity has entered the chat*
@SoundsOfMars 2000 no
bat mann alright let’s talk about it gimme your best 5 paragraph essay explaining how gravity is required for running in the first place
bat mann you just did lol
@Yoshikage Kira weirdly 2 JoJo pfps answered
@Yoshikage Kira *Y E S*
neil: *laughs*
camera: so i started shaking
matpat was quiet for so long i forgot he was even there.
Hope neil does some more crossovers.
He wasn’t quiet; he just sent the questions to Neil in a video.
Everytime matpat is explaining something on the couch he goes like “👌” with one of his hands
I always though Neil was a really serious person, it’s nice seeing him laughing 😂
Watch all of his videos in this channel. Most of it is him laughing.
love how only a few hours after mat pat gave him the shout out he’s already over 1 mil
Title: *Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Science of Rick and Morty*
Creators of Rick and Morty: *WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!*
Actually, Dan Harmon didn’t like watching fan theories about Rick and Morty, he said in his interview
Look up the video “matpat is lying to you”.