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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson talks measurements - On The Verge (Bonus Clip)

2012-03-28
yes yes I forgot one thing good since we are gadgets yes okay just stuff I carry around with me like I have a not exactly legal laser that I carry around with me because what do you want to point on Uranus because I'm as a planetarium director when you're in the dome you have that little arrow to point out the stars but when you're under the real universe you need an arrow that would work in the real universe too so there are lasers lasers for that you have it on you right now it's in the green room could you shoot a quick it's a peer share it's just real quick so plus I tweaked the universe it's like my like mostly cosmic brain droppings but it's in the universe and so I was at my kids but my son's little league game and they had one of these pitchers who's like faster than everybody ever was there's always one of those and P was like wow you know he's striking everybody out and so I said well how fast the pitches are so I calculated the distance and timed it I use the timer on the you know did multiple timings got down to a tenth of a second did the division I said this kids throwing 62 miles an hour at that distance it is airborne for the same amount of time a 96 mile an hour fastball is in the majors so I tweeted this I tweet it you know a fifth-grader throwing 62 miles an hour coupe oh sorry fourth grader okay well look who's wrong now so I tweeted this and someone replied which app did you use and I said it's called the brain all right so so so anyhow so I can't I like things that measure the environment in which I'm immersed so I have an electromagnetic field reader I've got a breathalyzer that I carry with me just cuz it just because it's fun now to measure there must be another reason no it's the it's it's I don't think measurement is a is an activity that is celebrated in our school system and measurement is the lifeblood of all science and in fact though Sciences that have not yet achieved a system of measurement cannot clean themselves to be mature subjects so if you'd like blow my mind they'd like it six times during this conversation is why you know I'm gonna not recover my brain is gonna be seeping out of my ear when we get back so take a look at like everything Freud wrote and you're looking there where are the measurements there are none so that's why psychology that lagged so far behind the other science knowledge develop measurement they need better measurement math well cuz like how crazy are you I need to know I need a number right so so you try and and so you struggle I mean struggling the way physics struggle when it first began but you know you come along give psychology a few more hundred years you think you'll be entering the field of psychology in on interest in humans alright so yeah so so I just have to get the gadgets off my chest no I'm glad with the week where there's more to talk about we're gonna have you back at legs gentleman dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
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