Invisible Universe

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince transport the cage of infinite proportions to the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. They are joined on stage by impressionist Jon Culshaw and astrophysicists Sarah Bridle and Tim O'Brien as they look up at the sky to discover that everything we see only accounts for 5% of the entire universe. So what is the rest of the universe made of? What are these mysterious elements known as Dark Matter and Dark Energy and would their discovery mean a complete re-writing of the laws of physics as we know them?

Producer: Alexandra Feachem.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Robin Hintz.
0:01.2	And I'm Brainkox.
0:02.0	And in the moment, you're going to be hearing me saying,
0:03.8	hello, I'm Robin Hintz.
0:04.9	And I'm Brainkox.
0:05.7	Because this is the longer version of the Infinite Monkey Cage.
0:09.3	This is the podcast version, which is normally
0:11.4	somewhere between 12 and 17 minutes,
0:14.2	longer than that that is broadcast on Radio 4.
0:17.0	It's got all the bits that we couldn't fit in
0:18.8	with Brian Overu explaining ideas of physics.
0:21.7	I do object to the use of the word longer, though,
0:24.0	because that's obviously a frame-specific statement.
0:26.8	Yeah, we haven't got time to deal with that,
0:28.0	because even in the longer version,
0:29.0	we can't have a longer intro.
0:30.1	Can we just let them listen?
0:31.3	I've got an idea.
0:32.1	Can we just have a podcast version of this intro
0:34.3	to the podcast, which can be longer than the intro
0:36.3	to the podcast?
0:37.0	Yeah.
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