Let's quickly pivot here. >> Everything we've said has been a pivot. So, this is not a new pivot for this conversation.
>> King tangent. I am your squire. >> If you have a minute, I'd be happy to tell you.
It's mind-blowing. Oh, this is one of the thing by the way. Oh, by the way, my brother.
Okay, let's go quick. And they say we got to check with >> Let's start this day the way I start every day. >> Bring it on.
>> My horoscope. >> Really? We are both >> No, wait.
Pause. >> Come on. >> Had you told me this in advance, >> I would have plucked a horoscope at random, read it to you, and asked you, "Is this your horoscope?
" You would have probably said yes >> because most people think that most horoscopes are theirs. >> Correct. >> They don't spend any time reading other horoscopes.
>> No, no, of course not. >> If they did, they'd find out how loosely worded they are. And I've done this experiment, just so you know.
>> Okay. >> As a scientist, that's how we roll. >> Do you mind running an experiment with me right now?
Well, first things first, what I do is I like to open up one of my favorite publications, the New York Post. Now, you and I, this is what's really beautiful. We're both Libras.
Do you mind giving it a read, please? >> If you need to win friends and influence people as the new week begins, the best way to do it is to be open and honest about your strengths and weaknesses. Don't just be honest with other people, be honest with yourself as well.
That is good wisdom, whether or not it came out of a horoscope. Well, as my friend and fellow Libra, do you care to share what you think my strengths and weaknesses are? >> Oh, I do.
I know you that well. I I I I don't know if I know you that well. I would say you were candid about your ignorance.
Not only candid about your ignorance, you put energy into eradicating that ignorance. In a case, that's a bad word. >> Closing the delta.
Closing the gap. Exactly. Exactly.
And as an educator, I highly value that in others. >> I really appreciate that. >> Yes.
>> But there is a slight twist here. >> What's that? >> I have heard rumors that zodiac signs aren't even accurate.
>> Of course. >> They're based on the stars 2,000 years ago. >> That's correct.
>> And the stars have shifted. >> That's correct. No, Earth has shifted.
>> So stars are still there. Earth has shifted relative to the stars. Not only that, there's the sun goes through 14 constellations, not 12.
So it's it's completely off. >> My Jupiter transits were all a lie. >> Yeah.
They transited just not in any time that corresponded to when you thought you were born. >> Yeah. But I thought you and I were Libras and that was going to kickstart the whole interview when in reality we're actually viros.
>> Oh, let's take a look. >> Correct. Yeah.
So the sun was in Virgo when we were born. Yes. >> Not Libra.
That's correct. This is a good time for romance and social activities. But as your ruling planet, what is the ruling planet?
I don't know. There's a ruling planet. >> I was trying to ask you that.
>> I have no freaking idea. But I based on everything I've researched about planets, they don't give a about you. Okay.
This to think that the universe cares about you. How big an ego does that require? Reflect on that for a moment as I continue reading.
There's still a good time for romance and social activities, but as your ruling planet is going through its retrograde phase, you cannot take anything for granted. Above all, over the next few days, make sure your cash stay cash stays in your pocket. Plus, who uses cash anymore?
If you have a smartphone, you just boop it. >> This means I will not be buying any more BTC. And I had tucked away a little bit of money also for a slanket.
And uh I will not be purchasing that. Do you know what a slanket is? >> No, I guess not.
No, tell me. >> A slanket is kind of like a Snuggy, but it looks more wizardlike. >> Oh, >> so it's somehow like a Snuggy but with less dignity.
>> Yeah. >> Do you really need that to convey the feeling and power of wizardry? That's the real question.
If you really what that is, you don't need the accutrants. You just are. >> Just saying.
>> Man, you dropped two bars just now. The first one is quite the meme. I mean, let's get this meme'd up.
Neil deGrasse Tyson photo. Let's license a really good one from Getty Images and it says the universe doesn't give a about you. Yikes.
Or was it planets? >> Yeah. Yeah, the planets.
But you have to put like an amperand thing cuz that I don't say often. Generally people who curse a lot. >> It's a it's a der of vocabulary accessible to them.
>> Yeah. Yeah. >> And I think I have a pretty good command of words.
So generally I don't need to resort to exploitives. >> Generally. >> Generally.
>> Yeah. >> So we have one that's a pretty that's a pretty like harsh dig. The planets don't give a about you.
Yes. What a bar. But then the other one is about wizardry.
>> And if you are a true wizard, you don't need the >> You don't need the costume. >> Yeah. >> Yeah.
People will know and they'll feel it >> by the displays of your power. I spent time in Washington on a tour of duty on a White House commission. We visited the room where the House Science Committee meets.
Beautiful room. It's got like certain iconography of science in the history of science decorating the upper rim. At the time, one of the members of the science committee was a young earth creationist on the committee.
>> What does young earth creationist mean? >> Earth was created no more than 10,000 years ago. >> Sick.
>> By divine action. >> Got it. Okay.
As a scientist, I wanted to go up to him and grab his lapel. >> Sure. >> You know, do one of these lapel things.
What are you possibly better? And then I thought, wait a minute. >> If he thinks that way, >> it means the people who voted for him think that way, >> right?
>> So, he's not the issue. It's the electorate who's the issue. >> But how is that possible?
>> As an indicator, >> how is this possible when the electorate has seen Jurassic Park right here cut to the wide an adventure 65 million years in the making? Earth can't be 10,000 years old. >> We live in a country where belief systems are protected and I don't have an issue with that.
But if you take your belief system and try to override what are objective truths, that is the dismantling of an informed democracy. So my issue was not with him. He's just representing the people who voted him into office.
That's how it works. I have a PhD in astrophysics. Yes.
And I have 21 honorary doctorates somewhere around there. And I never mentioned >> I have a PhD in >> the original PhD or any of the doctorates that followed because if I need to do that for you to believe what I say, then I'm not a very good explainer of things. If you said this is true because Tyson said so, I didn't teach you anything.
But if you say this is true and here's why. Then I succeeded as an educator. It had nothing to do with my degrees.
>> Right. Right. You're not supposed to mention your degrees.
>> That becomes a substitute right >> for people thinking that you know what you're talking about. >> Yeah. Don't mention the degrees even though you just did.
>> I have a PhD. >> Exactly. I had to mention the degrees to say that I don't mention them.
>> I'm with you. Then they go what is it? Then they do math dseo.
>> Yeah. They start add >> but they really you up with the the 15 and 16. >> They change the the the the the structure.
>> Yeah. >> Yeah. We do the same thing but you're just not thinking about it.
11 12 then all of a sudden the next seven numbers have teen in it. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. >> Why are we doing this?
Never bring logical arguments to a discussion of language. It doesn't work. That's why we invented math.
That's why that's why we use math to describe the universe and not words. >> I'm not a big religious guy. I don't that's not me.
>> Sure. >> But I will defend the use of BC and AD when writing dates which has been fading. You know what's been replaced with?
>> What's that? CE and BCE. CE stands for common era.
>> Yeah. >> And BCE stands for before the common era. It's still indexed to the birth of Jesus.
It was invented I don't to make atheists feel better about the calendar. >> That seems so that seems so silly though. >> What >> BC and BCE?
You're just remixing it. It It's like when someone's like this is my girlfriend. This is Ba.
It's the same >> but it's it's rejecting the religious foundation. And I know the effort that went into the Gregorian calendar that is world standard today and it was huge. Pope Gregory was noticing.
Are you ready for this? >> Talk to me. >> Pope Gregory noticed in the early 1580s that the first day of spring, March 21st.
Yes. Do you know the definition of Easter, the definition of Easter was the first Sunday after the first day of spring. However, the first day of spring had been inching earlier in the calendar because you can measure that on on the sky.
Well, wait a minute. If Easter is always the Sunday after that equinox and we're moving earlier in the calendar, it might one day land on Passover. Can't have that.
If you're a Christian, you got to distinguish yourself with they already did it by moving the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. Yes, >> that was a big enough effort, right? Okay.
Now, the seventh day that God rested was Saturday. Hence, in romance languages, at least in Spanish, Sabado, that's Saturday. We named it after the planet Saturn.
Saturday. >> Oh, >> you didn't know that? I didn't know that.
>> Okay. What's Sunday named after? >> The sun.
>> Thank you. Monday. >> The moon.
>> The moon. There you go. Okay.
>> What's Tuesday? >> Tuesday is from the north's god tus. So it corresponds to our um to Mars.
The corresponding gods is the the war god. Okay. So we have seven days of the week from the seven traditional planets.
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the Sun and the Moon. These are the traditional planets from Greek days. And we we have Roman names mixed in with some Norse names.
But regardless, getting back to the calendar. >> Yes, >> you distracted me. >> Well, >> for that reason, let me I got to finish my my man.
So, he says, "How did this happen? " Oh, because the Julian calendar, which had a leap day every four years, was overcorrecting. What's up with the calendar?
It takes 365 days and six hours. >> Yes. >> To go around the sun.
But we don't count that hour. We pocket it. >> Add four of them together.
How many hours you get? >> Four plus what? >> Four six-hour intervals together.
And what? >> 24. >> 24.
Bada bing. There's the leap day for free. >> Okay.
>> They toss in a leap day every four years. Turns out that overcorrects >> by a little bit. ah >> it overcorrects because it's not exactly 6 hours, it's like 5 hours and 54 minutes, whatever.
And so by overcorrecting, we're having too many leap days over the 1500 years since the Julian calendar. And Pope Gregory tasked his Jesuit priests to figure that out. If you know Catholicism, the Jesuits, that's the academic order.
>> So if I had a religious my people, they would be my people because I'm academic. All right? They figured this out.
And the telescope had not even been invented yet. They figured out that the length of the year was not properly captured by the Julian calendar. So they said, "All right, every hundred years, let's take out the leap day.
" 100 years are divisible by four. We take it out. Turns out that overcorrects, so you got to put a leap day back in every century year evenly divisible by 400.
Then you put the leap day back in. So the Gregorian rule is leap day every four years unless it's a century year. >> Take out the leap day.
>> Oh man. >> Unless it's a century year divisible by 400. Put the leap day back in.
>> So the year 1600 had a leap day, but not the year 1700 or 1800 or 1900. The year 2000 had a leap day. And everyone thought it had a leap day because it's divisible by 400 without realizing how rare that is.
>> It was a century year that had a leap day and that had only happened twice since the origin of the calendar. So this fixed it. However, there's still the matter of the 10 days you had accumulated.
Right? So on October 4th, 1582, the next day was October 15th. So they took 10 days out and that forced people, oh now I have to know how to calculate an advertised rate for your rent.
>> Yeah. Right. Right.
I mean totally it was an interesting mathematical >> challenge. Bad day for landlords. >> Really, really rough month for landlords.
>> So that is the calendar we use today and I give him props for that to figure that out and that's how we currently do it. So I'm all in for a AD and BC >> that level of organization and carry the one. Shout outs to them.
>> Yes. >> In the Superman movie, he flies backwards around the Earth. >> Yeah.
>> And time goes backwards. >> Yes. >> Okay.
And I People ask, "Could that happen? " >> Could Well, Merlin, could that happen? >> Odd that you would ask that.
>> Yes. >> Because you're not otherwise asking whether >> Hello. >> Oh, that was my phone.
>> Yeah. >> Oh my gosh. My bad.
I thought I put it on do not disturb. >> Uh, Superman. So Merlin replies, "If you slow down the rotation of the Earth, >> yes, >> anything not nailed to Earth's surface continues to move.
" >> Holy. >> So >> an interior decorator's nightmare. >> Okay.
So if Earth stops, the Pacific Ocean washes onto North and South America and Superman would have killed a billion people in his effort to save the life of Lois Lane. >> Do you know trigonometry? Do you remember that from school?
>> Algebra trick tech. >> Okay. What they probably didn't tell you is that all the rules you learned apply only to flat surfaces, triangles, squares.
Okay. There's trigonometry that applies to curved surfaces. >> It's called spherical trigonometry.
In the golden age of Islam, where a lot of math was invented, including the full introduction of the zero, which came from India, but India didn't quite know what to do with it. Uh, so don't look at me like what's that face? I'm just telling >> it's really it's really >> deal with it.
Okay. >> It's really funny that they're just like we don't we don't what's what's going on with this? >> Yeah.
What? >> It's so funny. Yeah.
Cuz Indians are very we are hard bargainers to be like we can't do anything with zero. >> Yeah. But you had the zero.
>> What's the number? How much? >> Bented to zero and then it migrated to the to Middle East to Baghdad specifically.
And it was adopted into a new system of math called algebra. Itself an Arabic word. Algorithm, an Arabic word.
Alcohol, all these AL words, >> alcohol, Irish. >> No. Okay.
>> So, >> all right. >> So, they invent, like I said, algebra, but they also because if you're Muslim, part of the rules are you have to pray to Mecca. >> Yes.
>> What direction do you face? >> Northeast. >> You face Mecca on Earth.
How do you know what direction that is? >> It's on my jamas. I I pray.
Yeah. Yeah. It's on my prayer mat.
Yeah. Yeah. What I'm saying is right.
So depending on where you are relative to Mecca, >> yes, >> you can be pointing north, south, east, west, northeast, southwest. Okay. The exact direction is determined by spherical trigonometry and and major advances in spherical trigonometry traced to that era.
>> Oh, so people knew where to pray. >> Correct. So it was religious inspired mathematical discovery.
>> That's dope. And >> it's totally dope. And I so I don't care what's what's empowering you, motivating you, go ahead.
If it makes a discovery about the natural world, bring it on. >> Yeah. Yeah.
There's been deep conversations on the internet. Internet is the Muslim internet where there's been convos about like if we do become multilanetary, how do we pray in which direction do we pray in? And spherical trigonometry would help a lot with >> Yeah, it's it's not going to happen.
Would not become multilanet. >> We're going to get to that later. >> Okay.
Early I forgot to mention Florida has the lowest highest elevation of any of the 50 states. >> I don't even know what you just said. Lowest highest.
>> Yes. Think about it. It has the lowest highest elevation.
>> Still don't still not follow. >> If I live in a city that has musicals, I don't need to go to a movie to see a musical. >> You're a little content baby reading micro content.
You don't want to see things in depth. >> You have existential angst because of this. Shout out to my dad, the Honda Civic, and the Toyota Corolla.
>> I don't mean to brag, but it's in the Oxford English Dictionary, Manhattan Henge. Why are you looking at me like that? >> Well, this is the second time you've name dropped.
>> Kiana Reeves was there. >> Kiana Reeves was there. Trust me, bro.
There's aliens. >> Black people get skin cancer, but it's not from the sun. It's other sources.
>> All right. Well, that's Debbie Downer. >> I don't know what that means.
>> I don't care for that. >> What he said. >> Wowza.
>> Cool. Cool. Cool.
Cool. Cool. Very cool.
>> Excuse me. >> We felt threatened. Uh oh.
Oh no. >> It's on the bottom. It's on the bottom.
Okay. Thank you.
