Christmas Special 2015
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2015
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Science of Doctor Who Brian Cox and Robin Ince celebrate the festive season with a look at the science of Doctor Who. Swapping the infinite cage for the Tardis, they are joined on stage by comedian Ross Noble, Professor Fay Dowker, Oscar winning special FX director Paul Franklin, author and Doctor Who writer Simon Guerrier and the Very Reverend Victor Stock. They discuss the real science of time travel, the tardis and why wormholes are inaccurately named (according to Ross!).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello I'm Robin Ince and I'm Brian Cox and welcome to the podcast version of the |
| 0:04.4 | infinite monkey cage which contains extra material that wasn't considered good |
| 0:07.9 | enough for the radio enjoy it. |
| 0:09.9 | Hello I'm Robin Ince and I'm Brian Cox and it's Christmas day the day where everyone thinks about the thermodynamics of turkeys |
| 0:17.0 | the Newtonian dynamics of sleigh rides and whether cranberries are alive or dead. |
| 0:21.6 | Well I'm not totally sure everyone thinks of that. |
| 0:24.0 | Anyway, so cranberries, alive or dead. |
| 0:26.0 | Linear superposition. |
| 0:28.0 | Of course. |
| 0:29.0 | As you same with every berry, aren't you? |
| 0:30.0 | Every berry you put in a linear superposition. |
| 0:32.0 | The, uh, don't see enough of that in Bakeoff, do you, the linear |
| 0:34.1 | superstition of Banks. |
| 0:35.1 | How many physicists are in the audience? |
| 0:37.1 | Because this is Christmas Day and I wonder whether, because the Trojinger's perspective of opening |
| 0:42.3 | presents, is it better not to open the present and it |
| 0:46.2 | remains in a superposition going, it really is definitely what I wanted and also definitely |
| 0:50.9 | what I not wanted as opposed to opening it |
| 0:53.2 | of finding out it's a dead cat which I have no idea why my uncle keeps giving me |
| 0:58.0 | those but I think he's very tight and he's also a vet so |
| 1:00.1 | uh... |
| 1:01.8 | so we have taken a break from attempting to put together our LEGO Large Hadron Collider, which is taking longer than we'd hoped. |
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