Cosmic Queries - Black Hole Universe
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Paul, there were a lot of cosmology questions in there. Big bang, multiverse, black holes. Negative gravity. Yeah, people are into that. I see you as a negative gravity person. Tend to be negative.
Coming up, Cosmic Queries on StarTalk. Welcome to StarTalk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide. StarTalk begins right now. This is StarTalk. Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist. This is going to be a Cosmic Queries grab bag edition. And to help me get through these questions, I got Paul Mercurio. Paul, how you doing, man?
I'm doing well. It's Baron Paul Mercurio.
Baron. Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Sorry, not barren as in you cannot reproduce.
Your womb is barren. I actually am. I'm trying to keep that under wraps.
You have one son, so that's that.
By the way, look at you all dressed up like a little schoolboy.
Look at you. I dressed up for you. Clearly, you have no such reciprocal feeling for me.
Well, because you asked me to help you move furniture, and so that's what I did. Plus, like...
You're out of a job, man.
I'm out of a job. What the hell happened down there? What did you do? What did you do to piss off Paramount? Apparently, I broke CBS and Paramount, apparently, on the Late Show. Right, because you're on the staff of the Late Show. I work on the Late Show, perform on the show, and we are not going to be in existence come May. Wow. And I am going to be sleeping outside in your bushes looking for any nickels I can find.
I live in lower Manhattan. I don't have bushes in my backyard. We're going to get you something.
Yeah, so, you know, I'm looking, you know, whatever. All right. You know, if you know anybody.
If I know someone needs a lawn mower.
Ex-lawyer. Ex-lawyer? I forgot. You went to law school. Investment banker. I could do M&A deals and make you laugh. And make you ravioli all at the same time.
Come on, but I'm barren. In case people are wondering, during one of our Patreon exclusive segments, one of our Patreon members, where they get to view a Q&A session live, felt sorry for Paul Mercurio for not having a title. Yes. And he came up with a great one. Commensurate with Lord Nice of Chuck Nice. So he got knighted some number of episodes ago. So they felt pity upon you. As a lot of people do. And so they decided to call you Baron. Yes.
I thought Baron, that feels right. Baron Paul Mercurio. I command presence. I have a presence.
I command attention. I felt that worked. And so I happened to have Excalibur in the office. Why wouldn't I? I got everything, I got Excalibur. And so we, I knighted you, Baron Paul Mercurio. You did.
Cut me on the neck, eight stitches, but otherwise it was great. So I'm honored and I want to thank the Patreon exclusive. How did you know it was an accidental cut? What makes you think that was an accident? I need security when I come on this show. Tamsen's got my back. So we're going to do some... Yeah, let's do some Q&A here. All right. All right, just some general grab bag.
But you're at least employed through June, is that correct?
Through May. May. May, unless something happens and I screw something else up and get us fired. earlier but may and I'm also doing my off-Broadway show Permission to Speak touring with it and we have it on Patreon now so people can go and enjoy it there and support it because I don't have any money I'm poor I'm out of a job You know, I'm eating hay, if you care. I'm a baron. I shouldn't be eating hay. I'm a baron, okay? All right, here we go. Opal Leeman. Hello, everyone. Opal from Atlanta. I'm 15 years old and was wondering, you said recently that we only know 4% of the universe. Well, Neil does. We know more. 4% of the universe, which includes everything we know. So do you think there are more types of science out there left, sorry, to create or discover?
Or would the rest of what we would know about the universe just be branches of what we already know? Love that question. Yeah, it's a great question.
Ooh, good one, good one. So let me not just, let me never say that something's just a branch of something else that makes it sort of subservient to it.
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