(woman) Neil? Neil!
Yes, honey?
Neil deGrasse Tyson, I asked you
to take the dog out for a walk
when I left the house four hours ago.
Now I come back,
and this little mother[bleep] Sputnik
has done pissed on my drapes.
Now I've got to get rid of those things
and get new ones.
Neil, it doesn't make any sense.
You are an astrophysicist.
How can you not keep track of little details like this?
Well, actually,
it's the little details
that cannot be kept track of, by definition.
In 1927, a German university lecturer
named Werner Heisenberg
came to a seemingly paradoxical conclusion,
that the more we know about the position
of a particle in physical space,
the less we know about its momentum, and vice versa.
Okay, but what-- what does that have to do--
Taken in conjunction with what we know
about the expansion of the universe,
this brings us to a fascinating possibility,
that maybe what we experience as one point in time-space
could actually be a legion of points,
which would mean that your curtains
and little Sputnik's pee-pee
could be as distant from one another
as we are from the furthest galaxy.
Okay.
Well, just... next time.
Of course, dear.
(woman) Neil!
There you are.
What are you doing?
We have to go to my Aunt Nelly's funeral.
How are you not ready?
I've been talking to you about this all week.
How am I gonna find you in your boxers
looking in a science magazine?
[sighs]
I swear, Neil,
sometimes I think
you don't have any idea of what's important.
Well...actually...
an idea of what's important
is as close as we can ever come
to any definition of importance.
Our galaxy is one
of over 100 billion in the observable universe,
and it's 100,000 light-years across,
which means it would take light 100,000 years to traverse.
Okay, but--
But that's just space.
If we were to chart the history of the universe
on one calendar year,
the history of mankind as we know it,
would just take place
in the final second of that year.
So, whether I'm ready now or in 500 years,
well, cosmically speaking,
the distinction is meaningless.
Well...okay.
I'm--I'm going now.
Good-bye, honey.