What Particles Remain to be Discovered?
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
"What Particles Remain to be Discovered?"
Brian Cox and Robin Ince return for a new series of the hugely popular, multi-award winning science/comedy show. Over the series a variety of scientists and comedy science enthusiasts will take to the stage to discuss everything from the glory of insects to whether free will is just an illusion. They'll be joined by the usual eclectic selection of guests over the series, including comedian Sara Pascoe, Dane Baptiste, Katy Brand and Eric Idle, as well as astronauts Sandra Magnus and Apollo astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke, for a space traveller special.
The first show will see Python legend and Monkey Cage theme tune creator Eric Idle take to the stage alongside physicists Jonathan Butterworth and Catherine Heymans to ask "what particles remain to be discovered?" . They'll be looking at life beyond the Higgs Boson and asking whether a new, as yet undetected particle could answer arguably the greatest question in physics and finally uncover the mysterious unknown elements that make up the 95% of our Universe that are known as Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:04.3 | Hello, I'm Robin Hints. And I'm Braincox. |
| 0:06.0 | And in the moment, you're going to be hearing me saying, |
| 0:07.9 | hello, I'm Robin Hints. And I'm Braincox. |
| 0:09.7 | Because this is the longer version of the Infinite Monkey Cage. |
| 0:13.2 | This is the podcast version, which is normally somewhere between 12 and 17 minutes, |
| 0:18.4 | longer than that that is broadcast on Radio 4. |
| 0:21.0 | It's got all the bits that we couldn't fit in with Brian Overrux, |
| 0:24.0 | explaining ideas of physics. |
| 0:25.7 | I do object to the use of the word longer, though, |
| 0:28.1 | because that's obviously a frame-specific statement. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, we haven't got time to deal with that, |
| 0:32.0 | because even in the longer version, we can't have a longer intro. |
| 0:34.2 | Can we just let them listen? |
| 0:35.4 | I've got an idea. |
| 0:36.2 | Can we just have a podcast version of this intro to the podcast, |
| 0:39.1 | which can be longer than the intro to the podcast? |
| 0:41.2 | Yeah, and then we can have a podcast version of the podcast intro. |
| 0:43.6 | The podcast started by now, but if you're still hearing this, |
| 0:45.8 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:46.6 | And then we can have a podcast, podcast version of the podcast, |
| 0:49.0 | and then we can have a podcast version of the podcast. |
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