Parallel Universes
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2012
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince stretch the cage of infinite proportions this week to encompass not just our own universe, but any others that might be lurking out there as well. They'll be joined by QI creator John Lloyd, the Astronomer Royal, Professor Sir Martin Rees, and solar scientist Dr Lucie Green to talk about one of the most tantalising ideas of cosmology, that of parallel universes. Are we inhabiting a universe that is just one of a possibly infinite number of others and how would we ever know? Is this an idea that is destined to remain one of the great scientific thought experiments, and a staple of science fiction, or will science ever progress enough to truly put the idea of multiverses to the test.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. |
| 0:02.0 | To find out more, visit bbc.co.uk-radio4. |
| 0:07.8 | Hello, on my right, a man who began as a keyboard player |
| 0:10.9 | and then became a particle physicist. |
| 0:12.8 | But he will still do a pub sing-along. |
| 0:14.6 | Just don't ask him to do by the light of the silvery moon |
| 0:17.1 | because in the preamble he then explains why the moon appears |
| 0:20.1 | to be silvery shows with electricity. |
| 0:21.6 | It takes ages to be quite honest, much longer than the song. |
| 0:24.2 | It's Brian Cox. |
| 0:25.3 | On my left, a man to whom the word spontaneous symmetry |
| 0:28.1 | is breaking and the electro-week sector means nothing at all. |
| 0:32.5 | Robbinance. |
| 0:33.4 | I have no idea. |
| 0:34.5 | This week we are back into physics, |
| 0:36.0 | which means we don't really need any guests as Brian |
| 0:38.2 | obviously will just sit there going, |
| 0:39.4 | I know that one. |
| 0:40.4 | Oh, I know that one as well. |
| 0:42.0 | Oh, I've seen that. |
| 0:42.9 | I've got me own accelerator. |
| 0:47.7 | We are looking at the idea of parallel worlds. |
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