The World That Turns
Curious Cases
BBC
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
"Why does the Earth spin?" asks Joe Wills from Accra in Ghana.
Hannah quizzes cosmologist Andrew Pontzen about the birth of the Solar System and why everything in space seems to spin. Is there anything in the Universe that doesn't revolve?
BBC weatherman John Hammond explain to Adam how the rotation of the Earth creates our weather systems and the strange things that would happen if we spun the opposite way.
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Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford Producer: Michelle Martin.
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| 0:00.0 | I'd just like to tell you about a podcast that I've been doing with my friend Brian Cox. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Robinins. Welcome to The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:07.2 | What we're doing in this new series, Sharks, fungi, bees versus wasps. |
| 0:11.8 | We're going to explain how bees explode, why wasps don't explode, |
| 0:15.0 | before we then climb into a Supervolcano metaphorically. |
| 0:18.2 | So, if you'd like to hear about the magnificence and strangeness of the universe |
| 0:22.4 | and all the wonders that lie within, listen to The Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:25.2 | And you can listen to the whole series before anyone else |
| 0:27.8 | when you listen on BBC Sound. |
| 0:30.4 | BAM. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm going through HR. Welcome to episode two |
| 0:39.4 | of the Cures Cases of Rutherford and Fry. |
| 0:41.4 | And today, we bring you the curious case of the world that turned. |
| 0:46.8 | Yes, and don't forget to send us your curious cases, |
| 0:49.0 | BBC.Curiouscases.com. |
| 0:51.0 | That was all over the place, curious cases at BBC.com. |
| 0:54.8 | It's really not that hard. It's really not that hard. |
| 0:56.4 | I find it hard. |
| 0:57.4 | on the piece of paper that's immediately in front of you as well. |
| 1:00.0 | Well, there it is. |
| 1:00.8 | Anyway, when we do these, |
| 1:03.2 | often at the beginning of the programmes, |
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