What Don't We Know?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Professor Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince return for a new series of the witty, irreverent science/comedy show. This week the Infinite Monkeys will be asking what don't we know, do we know what we don't know, does science know what it doesn't know, and are there some things that science will never be able to know? Joining them on stage for this brain twister and to discuss whether any of us actually know anything at all, are the comedian Paul Foot, biologist Professor Steve Jones and cosmologist and science writer Marcus Chown.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is a download from the BBC. To find out more, visit bbc.co.uk |
| 0:05.6 | Slash Radio 4. |
| 0:07.6 | Hello and welcome back to the Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:10.3 | I am the interested fool, Robin Ince, and with me as usual is Professor Brian Cox, |
| 0:14.3 | the one who sometimes brightens up your Sunday evenings, |
| 0:16.5 | we're reminding you that whatever you do, our universe will inevitably come to an end. |
| 0:20.8 | On his popular series, that's entropy. |
| 0:23.4 | LAUGHTER |
| 0:25.1 | Yes, this is Infinite Monkey Cage, a show that starts off in a very well-ordered state, |
| 0:29.3 | but subsequently descends into chaos. |
| 0:32.0 | That's entropy. |
| 0:33.8 | We're going to be saying that throughout the show, |
| 0:35.6 | that's the only way that we've found to educate people about entropy, |
| 0:38.6 | is to consider, say, that's entropy with jazz hands, |
| 0:41.4 | and eventually they go, that is entropy, isn't it? |
| 0:44.5 | Actually, how about we have the audience do that? |
| 0:47.0 | So, one, two, three... |
| 0:48.3 | That's entropy! |
| 0:50.4 | ..the whole thing. |
| 0:51.4 | ..this chaos, etc. |
| 0:53.0 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:54.6 | We do, however, have a constant and clear agenda |
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