The End of the Universe
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Brian Cox and Robin Ince are back for new series, for now at least, as they take an upbeat look at all the different ways our Universe might end. They are joined by legendary comedians Steve Martin and Eric Idle, alongside astrophysicist Katie Mack and cosmologist Brian Greene, to find out which end the panel might prefer. Will we go with the Big Rip or possibly the Big Crunch, or even death by giant bubble that expands so rapidly it wipes out our universe almost instantly? On that cheery note the panel vote for their favourite apocalyptic ending and wonder what they might be doing and what they hope to have achieved when the final moment comes.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome to the Infinite Monkey Cage lockdown podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | And this is the first one of the new series and it is, |
| 0:11.0 | this is the first time that we've attempted to do a podcast |
| 0:14.6 | in four different time zones where our guests were |
| 0:17.8 | across the world and we have, and it's a fact, |
| 0:20.3 | I'm not going to tell you, you actually hear the podcast, |
| 0:22.1 | but it is probably one of the most joyous shows |
| 0:25.0 | about the end of the universe you're going to hear |
| 0:26.8 | in the next couple of months anyway. Here it is. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello, I'm Robin Inz. |
| 0:30.2 | And I'm Brankox. |
| 0:31.2 | Welcome to the Infinite Monkey Cage, |
| 0:33.4 | which due to the current situation is now |
| 0:35.1 | considerably more finite than usual. |
| 0:37.4 | So our four guests are broadcasting about 5,000 miles apart |
| 0:41.2 | from their lofts and basements, except Brian, of course, |
| 0:43.8 | who is usually broadcasting from an ethereal plane |
| 0:46.6 | and I mentioned that according to our current understanding |
| 0:49.1 | of physics, makes this theoretically, |
| 0:51.1 | but is not yet falsifiable, but that won't stop him. |
| 0:54.2 | Robin, if my location is not verifiable by experiment, |
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