Black Holes

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by Monty Python's Eric Idle, and cosmologists Dr Netta Engelhardt and Dr Janna Levin as they tackle one of the biggest challenges in cosmology. What happens when you throw something (Robin!) into a black hole? Is the information about Robin lost forever, or is there a chance, sometime in the far future, a super intelligent alien civilisation could piece back some key information to discover proof he ever existed? Are Robin and his cardigans lost for all eternity?

Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Transcript

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:04.9	Hello, welcome to the Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:06.9	I'm Professor Brian Cox, Royal Society,
0:09.1	Michael Faraday Prize winner 2012.
0:11.7	And I'm Robin Hitch, Tough Declub Affiliation,
0:13.5	Stefford at 1975 and 1976.
0:16.7	Ask a scientist if you could die in any way possible in the universe.
0:21.6	What would you choose?
0:22.9	Well, many scientists always choose the same answer.
0:26.2	Have you actually asked anyone that?
0:28.0	It sounds a bit like a threat.
0:30.2	Well, I do feel that quite often, there may be a reason
0:33.6	that there's quite a few people who've turned down it,
0:35.3	because I tried to do it in a friendly way.
0:37.4	You know, I didn't do a kind of like James Bond
0:39.8	at, you know, kind of movie where we go,
0:41.4	ah, Roger Penrose.
0:43.2	So how would you like to die?
0:45.2	The particle accelerator or the black hole?
0:47.2	It was very much more of a kind of upbeat, you know,
0:50.2	how would you like to die like a quaker assassin?
0:53.6	This is...
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