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Famous Scientist Neil DeGrasse Tyson Demonstrates Wrestling Move

Famous Scientist Neil DeGrasse Tyson Demonstrates Wrestling Move

 

The world’s most famous scientist has a rich background in Wrestling.

Neil deGrasse Tyson was the captain of his high school wrestling team, and competed on Harvard’s wrestling squad while majoring in physics.

He is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science communicator. Since 1996, he has been the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York City. The center is part of the American Museum of Natural History, where Tyson founded the Department of Astrophysics in 1997 and has been a research associate in the department since 2003.

 

“Wrestling is the hardest thing to do. Anyone who says something else is the hardest thing, has never wrestled.”

“A wrestling match is just the laws of physics. Where is the tipping point? Where is the center of mass? What are the support forces? And that’s how I thought about it.”

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During his visit to UIndy, Neil deGrasse Tyson took time to meet with students. One student got a very close encounter as Tyson demonstrated celestial body’s orbits with a wrestling move.

 

“I wanted to invent a new move called the double tidal lock. Because in space, two objects can orbit one another and one can use tidal forces to lock it so it always shows the same face. Earth has done that to the moon. The moon only shows the same face to Earth. We have tidally locked the moon. I wanted some kind of wrestling move where I tidally lock the person. I never came up with one, though.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

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