Michelle Thaller

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577 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 21 Jul

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StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson · Running Out of Matter with Michelle Thaller · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

The thing that makes it mind blowing that we detected these things is they're tiny.

Luckily for us, I mean, they're a thousand times smaller than a proton.

And to give you a sense of that, I mean, not that the human brain can even get that, and the human brain's not going to get the next one either, but it's the equivalent of measuring from us to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri, about four light years.

A light year is about 6 trillion miles.

Damn.

You're going on 24 trillion miles.

That would be the equivalent of the distance between us and the nearest star varying by the thickness of a human hair.

They're trying to measure that.

Holy...

Holy shit.

Okay, thank you.

I could go more than that probably.

I could swear all day.

You know, I did not think they'd be able to do this.

Absolutely.

So, I mean, so this is the thing, right?

I mean, somebody bumped on table on the next state, right?

I sneezed in Australia.

So there's, I mean, there's all of these, you know, there's all this noise in the detector, right?

The detector, like you said, there's all kinds of noise going on in the detector.

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