The Infinite Monkey’s Guide to... Infinity

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Endless inflation seems to be everywhere at the moment, including on this episode examining the nature of infinity. Brian and Robin dive through the back catalogue to discover there might be no limit to the number of parallel universes that exist. This leads to an argument between astronomer royal Lord Rees and comedy producer John Lloyd, who says the whole suggestion is total speculation. Even cosmologist Carlos Frenk can’t get his head round the idea, as he contemplates the suggestion that new big bangs may be happening all the time. Episodes featured: Series 10: Before the Big Bang Series 6: Parallel Universes Series 21: Quantum Worlds Series 9: To Infinity and Beyond Series 10: Numbers Numbers Everywhere New episodes will be released on Wednesdays, but if you’re in the UK, listen to new episodes, a week early, first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3Jzy Producer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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0:00.0	Newscast is the unscripted chat behind the headlines.
0:05.6	It's informed that in Formal, we pick the day's top stories and we find experts who can
0:11.2	really dig into them.
0:12.4	We use our colleagues in the newsroom and our contacts.
0:15.2	Some people pick up the phone rather faster than others.
0:18.6	We sometimes literally run around the BBC building to grab the very best guests.
0:23.4	Join us for daily news chats.
0:25.6	To get you ready for today's conversations, newscast,
0:29.3	listen on BBC Sounds.
0:37.6	Hello, I'm Brian Cox.
0:38.6	I'm Rob Litz and this is the Infinite Monk His Guide, too.
0:42.7	Every now and again, our show has moments of furious confusion.
0:46.3	And one of them is quite often for you.
0:48.4	No, not furious confusion.
0:50.3	My confusion is just a la la la la la.
0:53.3	Haven't got a clue what he's talking about.
0:55.2	Is that what that look is?
0:56.6	That I've been working on.
0:58.2	I've been working at this face for the last more than a decade and furious confusion.
1:06.0	I think defines that look beautiful.
1:08.4	That's what it is.
1:09.4	I'm very much confusion in a hammock.
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