The Infinite Monkey’s Guide To... The Apocalypse

The Infinite Monkey Cage

BBC

Comedy, Science

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Brian Cox and Robin Ince take a deep dive into the Monkey Cage archive to find out how scared scientists and comedians are about the universe ending. Steve Martin says he’s happy to burn to a crisp when the sun explodes, but learns he might be more likely to die when galaxies tear each other apart during the ‘big rip’. And if the heat death of the universe really is inevitable, how come some people seem so jolly about it? Having studied this for years, astrophysicist Katie Mack wants to be there when everything ends, prompting Eric Idle to again speculate on the meaning of life. 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/3K3JzyF Producer: Marijke Peters Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts
0:04.8	You're about to listen to an episode of the Infinite Monkeys Guide 2.
0:08.5	Episodes will be released on Wednesdays, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:12.0	But if you're in the UK, you can listen to new episodes a week early,
0:16.6	first, on BBC Sounds.
0:18.8	Hello, I'm Robin Itz.
0:20.0	And I'm Brian Cox, and welcome to the Infinite Monkeys Guide 2,
0:23.3	in which we look back and also forward as sometimes even in the present.
0:27.3	See, you can't define them anyway in special relativity,
0:30.8	general relativity, they're different.
0:32.8	Oh, they're dividing line between them, and whatever.
0:35.5	It's a block universe.
0:37.4	Just say what else is going to be in the series?
0:39.7	Oh, space exploration, evolution, oceans and strawberries,
0:42.9	and a lot else besides.
0:44.3	But let's begin at the end.
0:46.7	Because today, we're going to be your guides to the apocalypse,
0:50.4	both on the parochial level of the end of all life on earth
0:53.6	and other minor details such as that.
0:55.7	But also on the more intergalactic level
0:59.1	of the death of the universe itself.
1:01.9	Back in the 1980s, when I was a teenager, and Brian was 36,
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