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Welcome to Inflate Monkey Cage, I'm Robyn Inc.

And I'm Brian Cox. This is the last show of the series. Sadly, we've run out of time.

Despite Professor Cox promising that we've completed his time-lengthing machine by now.

Why so long, Professor Cox? So in an attempt to get the most out of the final show,

we are recording this while travelling at just under the speed of light relative to the listeners.

That means we will stretch time for ourselves relative to you. But sadly, that means most of you

will have been dead for a few million years by the end of this recording.

You've learnt something haven't you, over the last few weeks?

I've learnt how magic time is.

So, in case we don't have quite enough time, here are a few ideas we haven't managed to fit into the last two series.

Symmetries are related to conservation laws through Noithist theorem. For example,

the fact that the laws of physics were invariants under rotations means that angular momentum is conserved.

And of course, the fact that they are transitionally invariant leads to the conservation of linear momentum.

Indeed.

Today, we'll be asking whether scientists' promises have made the public over-optimistic about the future.

Is there a clear line between what science should meddle with and what it should leave alone, or is it all fair game?

Ten years ago, the mapping of the human genome was completed.

And we were promised by some scientists that medicine would be transformed by the discovery.

A decade on, how close are we to a genetic revolution?

Is there a limit to what science and medicine could and should achieve for us?

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