I'm a Chemist Get Me Out of Here
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Robin Ince and Brian Cox give the chemists a chance to fight back as they stage the ultimate battle of the sciences to find out, once and for all, whether all science is really just physics...and whether chemistry is, as Brian puts it "the social science of molecules". Joining Brian in the physics corner will be comedian and ex-physicist Dara O'Briain, and trading punches for the chemists will be Professor Andrea Sella and monkey cage regular Professor Tony Ryan. Referee Robin Ince will be ringside to make sure its a clean fight and there's no hitting below the belt. Ding ding.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. To find out more, visit bbc.co.uk-radio4. |
| 0:30.0 | Waying in with mass is generated through the interaction of their particles |
| 0:33.6 | with a condensate filling every corner of the universe with an energy density |
| 0:37.1 | of a staggering 10 to the 37 joules per cubic meter. |
| 0:41.8 | That's the power output of the sun in a thousand years. It's physics! |
| 0:50.1 | And in the right hand corner with coloured liquid and funny smells, it's chemistry. |
| 1:00.4 | I'm Robin Ents, and in the interest of truth, I'd like to make it clear that |
| 1:06.3 | Brian Cox wrote the chemistry introduction. |
| 1:10.0 | And I'm Brian Cox, and I refute the accusation with all the strength of a homeopathic nuclear power |
| 1:14.4 | station. They're perfectly safe, but why won't my light switch on? |
| 1:19.7 | Joining me to battle this out is a man who studied mathematics and theoretical physics at |
| 1:23.4 | University College Dublin, but went on to become a stand-up comedian. He occasionally mixes the two, |
| 1:28.0 | but finds that any joke that starts, if we take X to be the IQ of a man who walks into a bar, |
| 1:33.7 | why to be the IQ of the Paris on his shoulder, and Zed to be the height of the bar in feet, |
| 1:38.1 | and Zed is greater than why he's greater than X, then you must be. It's an equine, |
| 1:42.2 | raky and Feng Shui acupuncture and astrological homeopathic convention. |
| 1:46.2 | It doesn't play well. |
| 1:48.9 | An equine, raky and Feng Shui acupuncture and astrological homeopathic conventions. |
| 1:53.8 | Though that said, Brian, I've noticed our invitation to speak at equine, raky and Feng Shui |
| 1:57.4 | acupuncture and astrological homeopathic conventions have diminished since this show started. |
| 2:02.4 | Yes, it's the primary non-exponents of equine, raky and Feng Shui acupuncture and astrological |
| 2:06.4 | homeopathy, Dara Obrin. |
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