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Could the Big Bang have been the result of something traveling faster than the speed of light? In answering Jeff Sloan’s Cosmic Query, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Chuck Nice discuss Cherenkov radiation, sonic booms and light booms, and why a diamond sparkles. Find out how we can conduct faster-than-light experiments if it’s impossible to travel faster than the speed of light in this “Behind the Scenes.“ This “Behind the Scenes“ video was shot during the recording of our episode, “